Supreme Court Calendar

9:00 A.M.

Olympia

Thursday, May 23, 2006

Case No. 1 - 76973-7

COUNSEL

Colorado Structures, Inc., et al.
     v.
Insurance Company of the West, et al.

Jeffrey Hanson/Joseph Yazbeck, Jr./Nell Oram

Joseph Calmes/Magnus Andersson

SYNOPSIS: Was Insurance’s liability on its performance bond conditioned on Colorado formally declaring Action in default? If not, does Colorado get attorney fees under Olympic Steamship?

Case No. 2 - 78293-8

COUNSEL

Qwest Corporation
     v.
City of Kent

David Goodnight/John Ridge/Loren Armstrong

Michael Charneski/Thomas Brubaker

SYNOPSIS: Whether the term “aerial supporting structures” as used in RCW 35.99.060(3)(b) refers only to poles and pole-like structures or if it also includes any hardware used by a telecommunications company to attach its cable to a pole. Whether the city is required to reimburse a telecommunications company for the full cost of aerial to underground relocations.


1:30 P.M.

Case No. 3 - 77560-5

COUNSEL

Lisa Little
     v.
Annie King, et al.

Stanley Rumbaugh/Terry Barnett

William Hickman/Katrina Thornock
Francis Floyd/Amber Pearce

SYNOPSIS: Whether the trial court’s vacation of a $2.1 million default judgment against a driver who rear-ended a person twice in a two automobile accidents, allowing a trial on the merits, was proper.

Case No. 4 – 77888-4

COUNSEL

Rud Okeson, et al.
     v.
The City of Seattle

David Jurca

Thomas Carr/Suzanne Smith/Robert Cromwell, Jr.
William Patton

SYNOPSIS: Does a municipal utility have authority to mitigate the effects of its greenhouse gas emissions by paying other government or corporate entities to reduce those entities’ emissions?

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