Supreme Court Calendar

9:00 A.M.

Olympia

Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Case No. 1 – 73766-5

COUNSEL

Douglas M. Branson, et al,

     v.

Port of Seattle

Spencer Hall
W. Scott Zanzig
Arthur Claflin

Phillip Ginsberg
Carl Marquardt
Paul Bintinger

SYNOPSIS: Whether the concession fee that is charged to car rental companies operating at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport complies with the Municipal Airports Act, chapter 14.08 RCW.

Case No. 2 – 73794-1 & 74092-5

COUNSEL

In re the Personal Restraint Petitions of

Christopher M. Lachapelle and
Christopher Ross Westfall

Suzanne Elliott

Kathleen Proctor
Jeremy Randolph

SYNOPSIS: In these two consolidated personal restraint petitions, LaChapelle and Westfall claim their sentences do not comply with our holding in State v. Smith, 144 Wn.2d 665, 30 P.3d 1245 (2001).  They seek resentencing without consideration of their juvenile offenses that “washed out” under the 1997 version of the Sentencing Reform Act. 


1:30 P.M.

Case No. 3 – 73906-4

COUNSEL

Evelyne Grundy,
     v.
The Brack Family Trust, et al

Barnett Kalikow

Matthew Edwards
Jeffrey Fancher

SYNOPSIS: May a person challenge the validity of a permit that allows their neighbor to construct a seawall, several months after construction of the seawall is complete, when the person was not informed of the issuance of the permit?

Case No. 4 – 74073-9

COUNSEL

Habitat Watch,
     v.
Skagit County, Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, and Port Gardner Timber Company

Jeffrey Eustis

Paul Reilly
Le Anne Bremer
John Hicks

SYNOPSIS: May a citizen’s group challenge the validity of a special permit for construction of a golf course, several years after the permit was issued, when the county issued the permit without providing notice to the public or holding a public hearing?

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