Washington State Courts - Supreme Court Calendar - March 6, 1996
March 6, 1996
| 9:00 A.M. |
Olympia |
Wednesday, March 6, 1996 |
| Case No. 1 - 63218-9 |
Counsel |
Joseph Stiley
v.
Edward T. Block
and
Patrick Stiley
|
Mark Johnson & Scott Samuelson
Terence Whitten & Erika Balazs
Roger Anderson
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Whether the Court of Appeals erred in reversing a jury verdict for fraud, legal malpractice, and breach of contract based on errors in jury instructions, erroneous use of a statute to impeach the defendant, and insufficiency of evidence to prove fraud.
| Case No. 2 - 63133-6 |
Counsel |
Paul E. Manor, et ux.
v.
Nestle Food Company
|
John McKean
Wayne Williams
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Whether a parent company which is self-insured under the Industrial Insurance Act as to both itself and a subsidiary is immune from third-party liability for an industrial injury suffered by an employee of the subsidiary.
1:30 P.M.
| Case No. 3 - 63215-4 |
Counsel |
E. Rosa Young
v.
Key Pharmaceuticals, Inc. et al.,
|
Daniel Ferm, Joel Cunningham &
Margaret Sundberg
James Holman
John Walsh
Fredric Tausend & Aaron Keyt
|
Whether a prescription drug manufacturer can be held strictly liable for failure to warn of dangers of its product, or must the plaintiff show that the failure to warn was negligent.
| Case No. 4 - 63227-8 |
Counsel |
Marshall L. Stuckey, et al.
v.
Dept. of Labor & Industries
|
G. Joe Schwab & Jeffrey Schwab
Michael Davis-Hall
|
Whether the Department of Labor & Industries, in recouping partial disability lump sum payments after claimants appealed and were awarded permanent disability pensions, must deduct the erroneously paid amount from the claimants' pension reserves or may instead reduce future payments to the claimants.
These summaries are not formulated by the Court and are provided for the convenience of the public only.
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