Case law

Matter of Disciplinary Proceeding Against Plumb

126 Wash. 2d 334 · Washington Supreme Court · May 18, 1995

Because Plumb’s wife had earned most of the family’s income in the previous 24 months, she was the qualifying parent under FIP. If she worked under 100 hours per month, the family qualified for benefits. … The effect of the sanction on the attorney (sanction must not be clearly excessive); 4.

Brown v. Giger

48 Wash. App. 172 · Court of Appeals of Washington · Jun 9, 1987

Ebling used the money to establish a mini-mart and restaurant business in Joyce, Washington. … App. at 925 . ”[T]he 2-hypotheses rule does not apply when a loan contract clearly is usurious on its face, and the only question is whether the facts of the case show that the loan is exempt from the otherwise applicable

State v. Levy

132 P.3d 1076 · Washington Supreme Court · Apr 13, 2006

Has Levy established a manifest constitutional error? ¶ 13 Levy did not assert that the error was a manifest constitutional error in his petition for review. … The question of whether it was a school was also a threshold issue that had to be established for there to be any crime at all. Id.

State v. Levy

156 Wash. 2d 709 · Washington Supreme Court · Apr 13, 2006

Has Levy established a manifest constitutional error? ¶13 Levy did not assert that the error was a manifest constitutional error in his petition for review. … The question of whether it was a school was also a threshold issue that had to be established for there to be any crime at all. Id.

Kane v. Strange

District Court, E.D. Washington · Mar 17, 2025

Defendants contend they are entitled to qualified 13 immunity as Mr. … Kane has not demonstrated they violated a clearly established 14 right. 15 Qualified immunity shields correctional officers “from money damages

Puget Sound Rendering, Inc. v. Puget Sound By-Products

26 Wash. App. 724 · Court of Appeals of Washington · Jul 10, 1980

These factors include: (1) whether the trade name was vaguely descriptive or clearly nondescriptive, i.e., the "appropriability" of the name; (2) the originality of the name; (3) whether or not the defendant acted in good … The trial court allowed use of the name when qualified with additional words of a personal or geographic nature, and the defendant complied by changing its name to "Al's Family Mark-It." .

State Ex Rel. Blume v. Yelle

52 Wash. 2d 158 · Washington Supreme Court · Apr 17, 1958

RCW 43.51.020], The history of legislation concerning the establishment of the state parks and recreation commission and its predecessor must be considered in interpreting this statute. … Thus the legislature has taken control of state parks away from public office holders and placed it in the hands of qualified electors who are laymen. This was its prerogative.

Baker v. Lake City Sewer District

30 Wash. 2d 510 · Washington Supreme Court · Apr 9, 1948

Thereupon, the county commissioners adopted a third resolution, No. 10262, declaring the sewer district duly created and established and its commissioners duly elected. … Clearly, the county commissioners intended to pass favorably on the county health officer’s recommendation.

City of Vancouver v. Public Employment Relations Commission

180 Wash. App. 333 · Court of Appeals of Washington · Mar 25, 2014

Applying these principles to the case before us, the record clearly demonstrates that Cook relied upon the tainted recommendation of Sutter when making his decision. … , practice, or requirement relating to agency hearings; (c) which establishes, alters, or revokes any qualification or requirement relating to the enjoyment of benefits or privileges conferred by law; (d) which establishes

Knapp v. Siegley

120 Wash. 478 · Washington Supreme Court · Jun 21, 1922

This, he says, is clearly error and entitles appellant to a reversal, upon the authority of 1 E. C. … L. 381, § 15, as follows: “The principle established by the authorities is, that one landowner cannot, by altering the natural condition of his land, deprive the adjoining proprietor of the privilege of using his own land

Ambach v. French

216 P.3d 405 · Washington Supreme Court · Sep 24, 2009

This limitation clearly excludes stand alone personal injury claims like those for pain and suffering. … Doctors are clearly answerable for false or deceptive acts in the entrepreneurial aspects of their practice. Wright v.

State Of Washington v. Nicholas Windsor Anderson

447 P.3d 176 · Court of Appeals of Washington · Aug 5, 2019

Anderson establishes two errors. A jury must decide whether his prior reckless driving conviction qualifies as a “prior offense” under RCW 46.61 .5055. That did not happen here. And State v. … The State responds that Fleming does not control because, here, it is not at issue whether the trial court exceeded its statutory authority by awarding restitution, for example, for an uncharged crime or for damages clearly

Clemency v. Department of Revenue

175 Wash. 2d 549 · Washington Supreme Court · Oct 18, 2012

Nelson established marital trusts in their wills, naming their wives as lifetime beneficiaries. … This led one author to observe that EGTRRA “clearly is not what it at first seems to be.

City of Seattle v. Bittner

81 Wash. 2d 747 · Washington Supreme Court · Jan 11, 1973

any license as a probationary license for such time and under such conditions as it may deem necessary to insure continued adherence to this or other ordinances, but no probationary license shall be granted to anyone not qualified … Such cases do not deal with constitutional rights so clearly ascertainable as those drawn in question in this case. 113 Wash, at 307. Also, in Vincent v.

In re Mason

3 Wash. 609 · Washington Supreme Court · Jan 21, 1892

It follows, as clearly as by a mathematical demonstration, that the petitioner belongs to the reform school.” … The incorrigible of the first and second classes goes back to the court whence he came, and is discharged; but he of the third class, not having arrived at the age of eighteen years, has not earned the immunity provided by

Henne v. City of Yakima

182 Wash. 2d 447 · Washington Supreme Court · Jan 22, 2015

That statute also establishes procedures independent from those contained in RCW 4.24-.500-.520 for bringing and resolving a motion to strike SLAPP suits and claims, as well as for obtaining damages, costs, and fees. … I agree with Justice Fairhurst’s concurrence (at 460) that Henne’s amended complaint did not clearly eliminate all the claims that Yakima targeted in its anti-SLAPP motion.

Schrom v. Board for Volunteer Fire Fighters

100 P.3d 814 · Washington Supreme Court · Nov 18, 2004

to qualify them as "active member[s]" of their fire departments as required by RCW 41.24.170. … Respondents' past service may or may not qualify as "fire fighters" to be eligible for LEOFF Act pensions, despite their failure to qualify for the same under chapter 41.24 RCW.

Hoffer v. State

110 Wash. 2d 415 · Washington Supreme Court · May 12, 1988

We held that the Governor's actions were immune from liability. … In Haberman, we did not decide if the professional defendants, including accountants, qualified as sellers.

Moen v. Erlandson

80 Wash. 2d 755 · Washington Supreme Court · Jun 22, 1972

Traditionally, these provisions establish the basis for the proposition that the states alone possess the right to establish qualifications for voting. … Will it now be held that the overriding right to travel, as affecting the Fourteenth Amendment and the original constitution, means that one can qualify for election to Congress on the same basis that he can now qualify to

Hansen v. Lindell

14 Wash. 2d 643 · Washington Supreme Court · Sep 23, 1942

Hansen, as the duly appointed, qualified, and acting administratrix of the estate of Winifred Lundberg, deceased, against Martin Lindell and Violet Lindell, his wife. … The position of this court was clearly stated in the cited case as follows: “In one of the texts cited by appellants, 37 C.