Washington State Courts: Washington State Supreme Court Calendar
Thursday, May 27, 1999
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9:00 A.M.
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Olympia
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Thursday, May 27, 1999
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Case No. 1 -67250-4
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COUNSEL
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State of Washington
v.
William B. Greene
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Seth Fine
David Koch
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SYNOPSIS: Whether the defendant should have been permitted to argue that he suffers from Dissociative Personality Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder) in order to support his defense theory of diminished capacity and insanity.
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Case No. 2 -66171-5
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COUNSEL
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Leonard and Jeanne Halverson Respondents,
v.
Skagit County, a municipal corporation,
v.
State of Washington
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Steve Berman/Carl Hagens
Anthony Shapiro
William Smart
Leonard Barson
John Moffat
David Major
Charles Wiggins
Glen Anderson/David Reeve
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SYNOPSIS: Whether, in this action claiming that plaintiffs' properties were unconstitutionally taken or damaged by floodwaters backed up from downstream Skagit River levees, the trial court erred in denying the County's claim of immunity under RCW 86.12.037, refusing to instruct the jury on the common enemy rule, allowing the County to be held jointly and severally liable with dike districts, or denying the County's defense based on the "ten year rule."
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1:30 P.M.
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Case No. 3 -67544-9
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COUNSEL
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Edwin C. McRory and Irene McRory, husband and wife; and McRory and Company, a Washington corporation
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Northern Insurance Company of New York, a foreign company
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Frederick Meyers
Robert Radcliffe/Jacquelyn Beatty
Walter Barton
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SYNOPSIS: When the court in a declaratory judgment action has determined that a primary insurer should have defended and indemnified an underlying lawsuit in which the insured was defended by the excess insurer, and the excess insurer has paid for attorney fees in the declaratory judgment action, is the insured entitled under Olympic Steamship [Co. v. Centennial Ins. Co., 117 Wn.2d 37, 811 P.2d 673 (1991)] to recover attorney fees that will be reimbursed to the excess insurer?
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Case No. 4 -67319-5
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COUNSEL
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Catherine Brand
v.
Department of Labor and Industries of the State of Washington,
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Christine Fostor
Michael Lind
Martha Lantz
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SYNOPSIS: Whether an injured worker who prevails only in part on her worker's compensation appeal to superior court is entitled to fees for all of her attorney's work, including that performed in connection with claims or theories on which the Department of Labor and Industries prevailed.
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These summaries are not formulated by the Court and are provided for the convenience of the public only.
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