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  • Lester v. Town of Winthrop

    87 Wash. App. 17 · Court of Appeals of Washington · Jul 10, 1997

    That did not happen here. *25 The delay involved here is simply not sufficient to establish a substantive due process claim. … The trial court properly concluded that the Lesters did not qualify for the special relationship exception to the public duty doctrine. Negligent Hiring.

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  • Medicraft v. State of Washington

    District Court, W.D. Washington · May 23, 2023

    City of Boise, Idaho, 623 F.3d 945 (9th Cir. 2010) (noting that 19 qualified immunity is a pure question of law and that Ninth Circuit may consider … In Desmet, the Washington 25 Supreme Court emphasized that the scope of the immunity is narrow and that “[t]his court has 26 established that

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  • St. Martin's College v. Department of Revenue

    68 Wash. App. 12 · Court of Appeals of Washington · Dec 17, 1992

    Martin's had the burden of proving at the Board level that it qualified for a property tax exemption. … Clearly, our state and federal constitutions preclude the State from promoting religious education.

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  • Card v. Oaks

    District Court, W.D. Washington · May 13, 2025

    No. 1-1 at 5–6.)1 The 8 Court identified that Plaintiff’s claims were likely barred by judicial immunity 9 and were otherwise not clearly stated, and ordered him to file an amended 10 … A 19 Magistrate Judge found that Plaintiff qualified for IFP status but that his 20 complaint failed to state a claim. (Dkt. No. 7.)

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  • Card v. Christel

    District Court, W.D. Washington · May 13, 2025

    No. 1-1 at 5–6.)1 The 8 Court identified that Plaintiff’s claims were likely barred by judicial immunity 9 and were otherwise not clearly stated, and ordered him to file an amended 10 … A 19 Magistrate Judge found that Plaintiff qualified for IFP status but that his 20 complaint failed to state a claim. (Dkt. No. 7.)

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  • State Ex Rel. Washington State Finance Committee v. Martin

    62 Wash. 2d 645 · Washington Supreme Court · Aug 7, 1963

    Thoughts held clearly in the beginning may obscure and lose their outline as the present merges with the future and becomes the past again. … Milwaukee, 17 Wis. (2d) 26, 115 N.W. (2d) 618 (1962), an immunity first declared by that court in 1873, found the immunity doctrine to be faulty and erroneous and not supported by the historic reasons claimed for it, and,

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  • Wash. State Hous. Fin. Comm'n v. Nat'l Homebuyers Fund, Inc.

    193 Wash. 2d 704 · Washington Supreme Court · Jul 25, 2019

    One of these programs assists low-income and first-time home buyers qualify for a mortgage by lending them funds for the *708 required down payment. … Thus, the interest against unauthorized competition was clearly within the zone of interests "regulated or protected" by the statutes.

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  • R W v. Columbia Basin College

    District Court, E.D. Washington · Nov 19, 2021

    Reagan and Mr. 16 Thornton appealed the portion of the Court’s order denying them qualified 17 immunity. … “was not clearly 3 established.”

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  • PICS v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1

    72 P.3d 151 · Washington Supreme Court · Jun 26, 2003

    Affirmative action programs which advance a less qualified applicant over a more qualified applicant are now impermissible under Washington law. … The School District argues that RCW 49.60.400 should be understood only to bar programs that promote a less qualified applicant over a more qualified applicant.

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  • State v. Klinker

    85 Wash. 2d 509 · Washington Supreme Court · Jun 12, 1975

    Nor does the fact that the intrusion on respondent Klinker's liberty was relatively slight immunize it from scrutiny under the Fourth Amendment. … In other words, if the subject qualifies, then the exception is applicable to all individuals who come within the confines of its application.

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  • In Re Albrecht

    51 P.3d 73 · Washington Supreme Court · Aug 1, 2002

    The legislative findings clearly expressed a concern that the involuntary commitment statute, chapter 71.05 RCW, was inadequate to deal with sexually violent predators precisely because prisoners have no opportunity to commit … Had Albrecht been in custody for drinking in public, for example, the necessary link to the underlying sexually violent offense probably would have been insufficient to establish current dangerousness.

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  • State ex rel. Fairbanks v. Superior Court

    17 Wash. 12 · Washington Supreme Court · Apr 12, 1897

    At the trial plaintiff’s complaint was amended so as to state clearly that plaintiff was in possession under color *15 of right of the office, and the prayer of the complaint was that plaintiff be protected in such possession … The plaintiff was in the council with this certificate, and was thus prima facie a member of the council, having taken the oath of office and duly qualified to exercise its duties. People v.

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  • In Re Estate of Frank

    146 Wash. App. 309 · Court of Appeals of Washington · Aug 5, 2008

    There is some evidence that Kenneth and Catherine established the Foundation for the tax benefits. … This proposition is clearly supported by a leading ademption case, Buder v.

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  • In re Milecke

    52 Wash. 312 · Washington Supreme Court · Mar 27, 1909

    It is only when they are clearly in opposition to the fundamental law that the judgment of the court will intervene, and not then to nullify a law that seems unjust, but rather to preserve the declaration of right reserved … and made immune from legislative interference by the people themselves.

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  • Giffin v. King County

    50 Wash. 327 · Washington Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1908

    They must cause to be opened and worked such roads as are necessary for public convenience, which have been laid out and established according to law; levy such taxes for road and bridge purposes as are by law provided for … Furthermore, the state’s contention would be clearly expressed by the remainder of the sentence had the qualifying phrase *331 been omitted.

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  • Card v. Subramanian

    District Court, W.D. Washington · May 13, 2025

    No. 1-1 at 5–6.)1 The 8 Court identified that Plaintiff’s claims were likely barred by judicial immunity 9 and were otherwise not clearly stated, and ordered him to file an amended 10 … A 19 Magistrate Judge found that Plaintiff qualified for IFP status but that his 20 complaint failed to state a claim. (Dkt. No. 7.)

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  • Card v. Fricke

    District Court, W.D. Washington · May 13, 2025

    No. 1-1 at 5–6.)1 The 8 Court identified that Plaintiff’s claims were likely barred by judicial immunity 9 and were otherwise not clearly stated, and ordered him to file an amended 10 … A 19 Magistrate Judge found that Plaintiff qualified for IFP status but that his 20 complaint failed to state a claim. (Dkt. No. 7.)

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  • Card v. Pierce County Sheriff's Department

    District Court, W.D. Washington · May 13, 2025

    No. 1-1 at 5–6.)1 The 8 Court identified that Plaintiff’s claims were likely barred by judicial immunity 9 and were otherwise not clearly stated, and ordered him to file an amended 10 … A 19 Magistrate Judge found that Plaintiff qualified for IFP status but that his 20 complaint failed to state a claim. (Dkt. No. 7.)

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  • Grenning v. Key

    District Court, E.D. Washington · Sep 26, 2023

    Qualified Immunity 18 Plaintiff contends Defendants were not entitled to qualified immunity. ECF 19 No. 37 at 37. … Thus, even if 7 Defendants had violated Plaintiff’s rights, they would be entitled to qualified 8 immunity. 9 CONCLUSION

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  • Graham v. Notti

    196 P.3d 1070 · Court of Appeals of Washington · Dec 2, 2008

    And Jolee Wilke is clearly not a "City resident." CP at 41, 124. … governing disposition of lost property in the *1074 hands of a governmental entity, a closely analogous context to the animal shelter's possession of Harlee, provides: If the property is not returned to a person validly establishing

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