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9:00 A.M.
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Olympia
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Thursday, May 31, 2001
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Case No. 1 -69938-1
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COUNSEL
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In re the Personal Restraint Petition of
Jeffery Connick
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Paul Wasson
Deborah Dwyer
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SYNOPSIS: Whether Petitioner's 1992 North Carolina convictions for breaking and entering and larceny constituted the "same criminal conduct" for purposes of calculating his offender score for sentencing under his 1999 conviction in the King County Superior Court for intimidating a witness.
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Case No. 2 -69406-1
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COUNSEL
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State of Washington, Department of Ecology and Thomas C. Fitzsimmons, Director of the Department of Ecology,
v.
ASARCO, Incorporated
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Mary Sue Wilson
Ronald Lavigne
Andrew Fitz
Timothy Butler
Peter Nickles
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SYNOPSIS: Whether recent developments in the jurisprudence of substantive due process and takings has rendered the Model Toxics Control Act unconstitutional when applied to certain aging hazardous waste sites.
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1:30 P.M.
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Case No. 3 - 70561-5
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COUNSEL
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Linda Robel,
v.
Roundup Corporation, d/b/a Fred Meyer, Inc.
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Michael Walker
Keller Allen
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SYNOPSIS: Did the Court of Appeals correctly reverse a bench-trial judgment for petitioner on her claims for disability harassment, retaliation for filing a workers' compensation claim, negligent infliction of emotional distress, outrage, and defamation?
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Case No. 4 - 70895-9
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COUNSEL
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Roni Heinsma,
v.
City of Vancouver
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Darren Walker
Deborah Quinn
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SYNOPSIS: Whether the City of Vancouver's Domestic Partners Benefit Program violated art. XI, § 11 of the state constitution by impermissibly expanding the definition of "dependent" as contained in RCW 41.04.180 to include the domestic partners of its city employees.
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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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