Supreme Court Calendar

9:00 A.M.

Olympia

Tuesday, October 15, 2002

Case No. 1 - 71430-4

COUNSEL

HJS Development, Inc.,
     v.

Pierce County

Stephen Rummage/Jessica Goldman
James Kelly

Bertha Fitzer/Jill Guernsey
George Kresovich

SYNOPSIS: Whether a county hearing examiner had the authority to revoke a preliminary plat approval under county codes, and if so, whether state platting laws preempt a local jurisdiction from enacting an ordinance allowing revocation of a preliminary plat approval, when conditions of approval are violated.

Case No. 2 - 71858-0

COUNSEL

Basil Denaxas and Ruth Denaxas,
     v.
Sandstone Court of Bellevue
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Sandstone Court of Bellevue
     v.
Kidder, Mathews & Segner, Inc., and Pacific Northwest Title Insurance Co.

M. Gerald Herman

Douglas Hofmann

John Wheeler

Linda Clapham/Emilia Sweeney
Thomas Peterson

SYNOPSIS: Whether an escrow agent breached a duty to inform a buyer about a property description discrepancy between the purchase and sale agreement and the deed, and whether the buyer justifiably relied on the agreement's description, where the buyer had surveyed the land and submitted the proper legal description in proposed development plans.

Case No. 3 - 71906-3

COUNSEL

State of Washington,
     v.
Darin Lamar Ward & Rickey B. Baker

David Seaver/Lee Yates

David B. Koch

SYNOPSIS: Whether the State must plead and the jury must be instructed that an assault that is used to raise violation of a no-contact order to a felony "does not amount to assault in the first or second degree." RCW 26.50.110(4).

Case No. 4 - 72456-3

COUNSEL

Washington Association of Neighborhood Stores; et al.
     v.
State of Washington, and Healthcare for Washington's Working Families

Michael King/James Robart
Kathleen Benedict/Robin Dale

Maureen Hart/Jeffrey Even
Thomas Ahearne

SYNOPSIS: Whether Initiative 773, which established new cigarette sales and wholesale taxes, is unconstitutional because it violates the single subject or subject-in-title rules, fails to specify its effect on existing statutes, or requires state expenditures beyond a single biennium.