Docket No. 80759-1  Facts:  The respondent state of Washington filed a petition to terminate the parental rights of petitioner Rogelio Salas with regard to his daughter A.B. in the Superior Court for Yakima County.  The superior court subsequently terminated Salas’s parental rights, finding that A.B.’s permanent placement with her cousin would be in her best interest.  Salas appealed the superior court’s decision, asserting that he had been denied due process by the superior court’s failure to find that he is an unfit parent as required by Washington Revised Code §13.34.180(1). Continue reading →

Docket No. 80395-1  Facts: After Snohomish County enacted an ordinance changing the designation and zoning of a parcel of land from agricultural to urban and general commercial, the petitioner Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board held a hearing to determine whether the redesignation complied with the Growth Management Act Continue reading →

Docket No. 80357-9  Facts: After respondent Rajvir Panag was involved in an automobile accident while uninsured with a motorist insured by petitioner Farmers Insurance Company, Farmers Insurance Company retained a collection agency to recover the full amount it had paid on the claim from Panag. Continue reading →

Docket No. 80995-0  Facts: Respondent Robert Bonds appealed his conviction in the Superior Court for Pierce County on charges of attempted murder and unlawful possession of a firearm by filing a personal restraint petition in the Washington Court of Appeals that asserted that the trial court had violated his right to confront witnesses against him by admitting into evidence out of court statements made by his co-defendants and that his attorney had been ineffective in raising the issue on appeal. Continue reading →