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Washington State Courts - Supreme Court Calendar - March 26, 1996

March 26, 1996

9:00 A.M. Olympia Tuesday, March 26, 1996

Case No. 1 - 63195-6 Counsel
Juanita Edgar, et al.
v.
City of Tacoma, Tacoma City Light, et al.
Gregory Turner & Joel Wright
Michael Davis-Hall 
R. Jack Stephenson & Bruce McDermott
Whether RCW 4.22.070(1), as amended by Laws of 1993, ch. 496, which excludes immune employers as entities to whom fault may be assigned, impairs the constitutional right to jury trial.

Case No. 2 - 63161-1 Counsel
Dedra J. Osborn, Grant County Clerk
v.
Grant County by and through the Grant County Commissioners
Keller Allen & Robert Dunn
 
Hon. John Knodell
John Staffan
Whether the Grant County Board of Commissioners unlawfully interfered with the county clerk’s authority to hire employees, and whether the clerk had standing to bring suit to challenge the board’s action and the right to appointment of a special prosecutor to represent her.


1:30 P.M.

Case No. 3 - 63181-6 Counsel
Aloha Cary
v.
Allstate Insurance Company
James Smith & John Matterazzo
 
Douglas Foley & Laurence Wagner
Whether an exclusion clause in a homeowner’s insurance policy denying coverage for acts committed by an insured while insane violates public policy and thus should not be enforced?

Case No. 4 - 63092-5 Counsel
State of Washington
v.
Gregory K. White
Peter Goldman
 
Eric Broman & Andrew Subin
Whether the police needed a warrant to arrest a suspected felon in a toilet stall of a public restroom.


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