9:00 A.M.
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Olympia
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Tuesday, February 25, 2003
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Case No. 1 – 72540-3
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COUNSEL
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State of Washington,
v.
Gregory M. Rohrich
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James Kaufman
Pam Loginsky
John Snyder
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SYNOPSIS: Whether the Court of Appeals properly upheld the dismissal of this child molestation prosecution pursuant to CrR 8.3(b), on the ground that the delay in bringing the charge may have allowed witnesses’ memories to fade and the defendant’s own recall of the incident to be compromised.
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Case No. 2 – 72539-0
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COUNSEL
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In re the Marriage of
Gerald Steven Chumbley,
and
Mary Patricia Beckmann
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Catherine Smith
Charles Wiggins
Kenneth Masters
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SYNOPSIS: Whether stock purchased during marriage by exercising a community option using separate funds should at dissolution be characterized as community property, separate property, or a mixture of both, and whether the increased value of the stock should be apportioned based on the ownership interests when it was purchased.
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1:30 P.M.
Case No. 3 – 72635-3
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COUNSEL
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Sunnyside Valley Irrigation District,
v.
Dyke Dickie and Jane Doe Dickie
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Charles Flower/Patrick Andreotti
John Moore
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SYNOPSIS: Whether the terms of an easement permit the grantee to increase the width of their right of way to accommodate larger and more efficient maintenance equipment and to support increased demands on the irrigation ditch from effluent produced by the upstream irrigation sources?
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Case No. 4 – 72718-0
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COUNSEL
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Clark County Public Utility District No. 1,
v.
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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Henry Farber/Jeffrey Youmans
Richard Robblee
Anne Senter
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SYNOPSIS: Whether a labor arbitrator’s conclusions were reversible as arbitrary and capricious, or otherwise outside the arbitrator’s authority, when the arbitrator interpreted a collective bargaining agreement to include parts of a personnel policy manual.
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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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