Synopsis: Whether the prosecutor in a criminal trial committed prejudicial misconduct during closing argument when he utilized a PowerPoint presentation that displayed booking photographs of the defendant with the word "guilty" superimposed across his face and other captions questioning the defendant's credibility. Read more...

Question: Does the Washington State Constitution prevent the State from imposing a tax on the first in-state possession of motor vehicle fuel, and can the Plaintiff's constitutional challenge be time-barred by a 22-year delay in filing suit?

Synopsis: Whether the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine or the ministerial exception bars the superior court from adjudicating a church employee's claims for negligent retention, negligent supervision, and sex discrimination against a church and its senior pastor. Read more...

Synopsis: Whether victim impact statements and special sex offender sentencing alternative evaluations held by the prosecuting attorneys office are exempt from disclosure under the Public Record Act.

Synopsis: Whether the trial court in a sexually violent predator commitment proceeding properly admitted expert testimony that the detainee probably committed several unsolved sex offenses based on a comparison of the detainee’s adjudicated offenses with the characteristics of the unsolved offenses identified in a criminal acts database.

Synopsis: Whether Washington public policy or principles of due process are violated if the Washington Fair Labor Contractor Act requires a trial court to award statutory damages of $500 per plaintiff per violation.

Synopsis: Harry Goodrich and Linda Saunders, two citizens of the Jefferson County Fire Protection No. 2 District, initiated a recall proceeding against David Ward and Michael Whittaker, commissioners for the District, alleging various counts of misfeasance. The Court must decide if the recall petition should advance to the signature-gathering phase of the recall process.

Synopsis: Whether, in an action arising out of the sale of a home, the economic loss rule bars a claim for damages for fraudulent concealment, bars the remedy of rescission of the sales contract for negligent misrepresentation, and bars an action against the buyers' realtor for breach of common law and statutory duties. Read more...

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Synopsis: Whether in these prosecutions for murder and kidnapping, reversal of the kidnapping conviction should also result in reversal of the felony murder conviction in Kosewicz or the kidnapping special finding supporting the aggravated murder conviction in Brown. Read more...