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9:00 A.M.
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Olympia
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Thursday, May 19, 2005
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Case No. 1 – 75641-4
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COUNSEL
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Advanced Silicon Materials, LLC,
v.
Grant County
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Norman Bruns
William Severson
Stephen Hallstrom/Teresa Chen
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SYNOPSIS: In a property tax refund action, what is the year the litigants must use to prove the true and fair value of the property at issue: the year of the assessment being challenged or the year the property was last revalued by the county?
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Case No. 2 – 76629-1
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COUNSEL
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United States of America, et al.,
Plaintiff,
v.
Linda Hoffman, Director of the Washington Department of Ecology, et. al
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Stephen Cherry
Stephen Smith
Matthew Segal
Michael Zevenbergen
Joseph Shorin/Elliott Furst
Laura Watson/Andrew Fitz
Michael Robinson-Dorn
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SYNOPSIS: The United States District Court certified several questions of statutory interpretation to this Court regarding the Cleanup Priority Act, which was passed as I-297 in November 2004. The Court must determine the scope of the Act.
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1:30 P.M.
Case No. 3 – 76036-5
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COUNSEL
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Patrick J. Sheehan and James T. Reynolds,
v.
Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, Seattle Popular Monorail Authority, and State of Washington
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James Smith, Jr./James Hennessey
Jeffrey Thomas
Paul Lawrence/Matthew Segal
Sarah Johnson
Jerald Anderson
Cameron Comfort
Donald Cofer
Desmond Brown
Ross MacFarlane
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SYNOPSIS: Sound Transit and the Seattle Monorail Project both annually impose a tax on vehicles licensed within their respective districts? Appellant taxpayers challenge the validity of these taxes on several grounds.
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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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