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Ditto
No, Alaska airlines is neither a EU carrier, nor was it operating a flight from the EU, EU261 is all about the operating carrier rather than the marketing one, though you can never know what will happen in a court...
True, however, the UK Court of Appeals did recently rule that non-EU carriers operating outside the EU are liable on connecting journeys that are delayed (i.e. fly LHR-JFK-ATL where AA causes you to be delayed by more than 3 hours in arriving at ATL).
Not exactly the same, but the courts are expanding the rules somewhat.