Case law

State ex rel. T.B. v. CPC Fairfax Hospital

129 Wash. 2d 439 · Washington Supreme Court · Jun 27, 1996

to establish guidelines beneficial to and protective of their children. … The legislature further finds that *462 it is the right and responsibility of adults to establish laws for the benefit and protection of the society; and that, in the same manner, the right and responsibility for establishing

State v. Mason

160 Wash. 2d 910 · Washington Supreme Court · Jul 19, 2007

However, we are not convinced a trial court’s ruling that a statement is offered for a purpose other than to prove the truth of the matter asserted immunizes the statement from confrontation clause analysis. … His analysis established two strands of DNA; one was identified as the victim’s.

Knight v. Pang

32 Wash. 2d 217 · Washington Supreme Court · Dec 30, 1948

This principle is so well established in this jurisdiction as to scarcely require citation of supporting authority. [Citing cases.]” … The instruction, as requested, was clearly improper, and the trial court correctly refused to give it.

State v. Magers

189 P.3d 126 · Washington Supreme Court · Jul 24, 2008

Clearly, evidence that Magers was arrested in December 2003 for shoving Ray and that a no-contact order was entered following that arrest is admissible. … A statement qualifies as an excited utterance if (1) a startling event occurred, (2) the declarant made the statement while under the stress or excitement of the event, and (3) the statement relates to the event.

Wong Kee Jun v. City of Seattle

143 Wash. 479 · Washington Supreme Court · Apr 21, 1927

establishing, if that be possible, a rule by which *481 litigants and trial courts may in future determine into which class a given case may fall. … Clearly they could not have recovered in that action for future or prospective injuries to their property.”

Ameriquest Mortg. Co. v. Office of Att'y Gen.

Washington Supreme Court · May 9, 2013

Ctr., 94 Wn.2d 559, 567-68, 618 P.2d 76 (1980) (burden shifts to the party seeking disclosure to establish that the exemption is clearly unnecessary). 3. … Moreover, the AGO's request did not qualify as aCID under the CPA's requirements.

Tacoma Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Nadham

14 Wash. 2d 576 · Washington Supreme Court · Sep 9, 1942

Burrow, was appointed, and qualified, as administrator of the latter’s estate. … In the instant case, however, there was no contract creating a joint tenancy with right of survivor-ship annexed, nor does the evidence establish an intention to create a relationship having that feature.

State Ex Rel. O'Connell v. Yelle

51 Wash. 2d 620 · Washington Supreme Court · Jan 23, 1958

"No person except a citizen of the United States and a qualified elector of this state shall be eligible to hold any state office, ... … It must have appeared to the members as a tradition, since the long-established practice never before has been challenged.

Washington State Legislature v. Lowry

131 Wash. 2d 309 · Washington Supreme Court · Feb 27, 1997

The Legislature asked the court to establish limiting parameters of the Governor’s veto authority under article III, section 12 of the Washington Constitution. … To the extent we immunize nonappropriations provisos in appropriations bills from the Governor’s veto, the Legislature will try to slip substantive law provisos into appropriations bills to derive political advantage against

State v. Jennings

502 P.3d 1255 · Washington Supreme Court · Feb 3, 2022

We further find that the state court’s treatment of Harris’s Strickland[6] [ineffective assistance] claim constitutes an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law. … We should provide guidance to lower courts by following the lead of Harris and the other decisions discussed above and clearly establishing that toxicology evidence is relevant and potentially admissible in criminal cases

Volk v. DeMeerleer

Washington Supreme Court · Dec 22, 2016

In fact, we clearly stated that whether the patient is an inpatient or an outpatient is immaterial. I d. … Admission is proper provided the expert is qualified and his or her testimony is helpful. Id.

Pub. Util. Dist. No. 1 v. State

Washington Supreme Court · Jan 29, 2015

Because the fish hatchery was clearly a present public use, we then engaged in a prior public use analysis. !d. at 453. … State, 93 Idaho 795, 473 P.2d 937 (1970) (relating to sovereign immunity). A necessary component of growth is the power to condemn school lands.

Johnson v. McClure

5 Wash. 2d 123 · Washington Supreme Court · Aug 9, 1940

Johnson was appointed trustee in the will and qualified as such. *126 Jennie Weeks died September 29, 1936, and Jay G. McCrary was appointed administrator of her estate. … In deciding the case, it was said: “It is a question of the testator’s intention, and the intention to give to this annuity the nature of a specific legacy, payable only out of income, must be clearly established.

State v. Rupe

108 Wash. 2d 734 · Washington Supreme Court · Sep 17, 1987

Knowledge of prior proceedings alone is insufficient to establish juror bias. Patton v. Yount, supra at 1035 . … (Significantly, however, much of the questioning was concerned with death qualifying the jury, rather than with the effect of publicity.)

Peninsula Counseling Center v. Rahm

105 Wash. 2d 929 · Washington Supreme Court · May 29, 1986

Both of these interests clearly are implicated in this appeal. … This information clearly is of the type that a patient would desire to keep private.

Hendrix v. City of Seattle

76 Wash. 2d 142 · Washington Supreme Court · Jun 5, 1969

It is imperative that guidelines for those bodies be articulated clearly and with reference to actual social realities and objectives involved. … Ct. 1444 (1968) simply established that jury trial for certain offenses was a fundamental right.

Bekins v. Fidelity Savings & Loan Ass'n

179 Wash. 519 · Washington Supreme Court · Dec 4, 1934

That case involved the right of creditors to maintain actions to establish claims against funds accumulated by a trustee in the administration of a bankrupt estate, in another court than those in which independent actions … in possession of the ■mortgaged property, and the possession of the receiver and trustee was likewise lawful; but the lien of the mortgage was not affected in any way by the bankruptcy, as the eases in the Supreme Court clearly

State v. Riofta

209 P.3d 467 · Washington Supreme Court · Jun 11, 2009

The prosecutor presented evidence of Riofta's link to the Trang Dai defendants to establish motive for the shooting. … Our statute was drafted to qualify Washington for federal funding under the Justice For All Act of 2004. Pub.L. No. 108-405, 118 Stat. 2260, 2261-62.

Bostain v. Food Express, Inc.

159 Wash. 2d 700 · Washington Supreme Court · Mar 1, 2007

. *720 ¶38 Food Express has not established that MWA’s overtime provisions create irreconcilable obligations. … Ed. 2d 275 (1989). ¶40 Here, the Bostains point out, overtime under the MWA applies to Washington-based employees, and it is difficult to conceive of circumstances where one who does not qualify as the employer of a Washington-based

State v. Michielli

937 P.2d 587 · Washington Supreme Court · May 29, 1997

The Supreme Court of Florida determined that the defendant's forging checks did not qualify as trafficking in stolen property. … In contrast to the facts in Camp, Michielli's selling three stolen items to a pawnshop qualifies as trafficking.