This is a list of all recently scheduled oral arguments, in reverse chronological order.
Visit Recent Arguments for past oral arguments, and Upcoming Arguments for future oral arguments.
If you can’t find a case on our website, it’s because we’re still updating our database. In the meantime, here are some useful links to the Washington Courts website:
Synopsis: Whether in a personal injury action against a landowner for injuries sustained in falling through a wooden dock, the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur applied to prove both that the dock was dangerously defective and that the landowners knew or should have known of the defect.
Synopsis: Whether the prosecutor in a criminal trial improperly vouched for a witness’s credibility when on direct examination the prosecutor elicited the fact that the witness had promised to testify truthfully as part of a plea agreement.
Synopsis: Whether, in a dispute over attorney fees owed by a former client, the trial court erroneously awarded the former attorney prejudgment interest even though the former client had deposited the amount of claimed fees in the trial court registry, and whether on appeal the Court of Appeals erroneously altered the settlement amount on which the former attorney’s contingency fee was based.
Synopsis: Whether confinement on a misdemeanor probation violation interrupts the five-year “wash-out” period on a prior class C felony conviction.
Facts: Petitioner Marilea Mitchell was convicted of criminal mistreatment in the Superior Court for Snohomish County after allowing a child in her care to become severely malnourished. Read more…
Synopsis: Whether a discovery order under CrR 4.7(b)(2)(vi) requiring a criminal defendant to supply a DNA sample had to meet constitutional requirements for the issuance of a warrant, and if so, whether those requirements were not met because the trial court failed to expressly find probable cause.
Synopsis: Whether in a medical malpractice action defense counsel’s transmittal of court documents and attorney notes to the plaintiff’s nonparty treating physician prior to the physician’s testimony for the defense constituted improper ex parte contact.
Synopsis: Whether a limited liability company that agreed to merge with another company violated the Washington Limited Liability Company Act by failing to tender payment for a dissenting member’s interest within 30 days after the member’s initial demand for payment.
Synopsis: Whether in a prosecution for third degree rape the burden of proving that the child victim was competent to testify rested on the State as the party that called the child as a witness.
Synopsis: Whether Washington’s special education funding mechanisms unconstitutionally underfund special education, and whether basic education funds can be applied to meet the State’s obligation to fully fund special education.
