Supreme Court Calendar

9:00 A.M.

Olympia

Thursday, June 13, 2002

Case No. 1 - 71950-1

COUNSEL

Tony Willoughby and Lennie T. Cain,
     v.
Department of Labor and Industries of the State of Washington

Bryan Harnetiaux/Debra Stephens

John Wasberg
James Johnson

SYNOPSIS: Whether the cancellation of permanent partial disability benefits to incarcerated workers under RCW 51.32.040(3)(a), as applied to Respondents under RCW 72.60.102, violates equal protection or due process, when Respondents are unlikely to be released during their lifetimes and do not have a statutory beneficiary to whom the benefits may be transferred, and whether this provision is consistent with RCW 9.92.110 (barring forfeiture of a prisoner's property by reason of his or her conviction).

Case No. 2 - 71842-3

COUNSEL

City of Seattle,
     v.
Paul H. Patu

Richard Greene

Christine Jackson

SYNOPSIS: Whether a defendant convicted of obstructing a public officer, in violation of Seattle Municipal Code 12A.16.010(A)(5), may challenge on appeal a "to convict" instruction he proposed, on the basis that the instruction omitted the element of actual obstruction.

Case No. 3 - 71618-8

COUNSEL

Traci Hauber, et al.,
     v.
County of Yakima

Duncan Turner/Donald Mullins

Alfred Schweppe

SYNOPSIS: Whether the estate of a fire fighter who died during a Yakima County Search and Rescue dive in an irrigation siphon, after being called away from duty at the Yakima city fire station, may maintain a wrongful death action against the county. See RCW 38.52.080(1); RCW 38.52.190.