|
| 9:00 A.M.
|
Olympia
|
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
|
THREE CASES – TWO A.M./ONE P.M.
Case No. 1 - 79971-7
|
COUNSEL
|
Melanie Morin
v.
Clarence Harrell and Hazel Harrell
|
William Simmons
Douglas Nicholson
|
SYNOPSIS: Did Initiative 518, which eliminated the domestic service provider exemption from the Minimum Wage Act, violate the subject-in-title rule of article II, section 19, such that a subsequent claim for overtime wages by a domestic service provider was properly rejected on summary judgment?
|
Case No. 2 - 79976-8
|
COUNSEL
|
Curtis A. Beaupre
v.
Pierce County
|
Joseph E. Fischnaller/Michael Scott Dutton
Daniel Hamilton
|
SYNOPSIS:Does the professional rescue doctrine bar a police officer from recovering for injuries he sustained when a fellow officer’s patrol car hit him as he was chasing a suspect on foot?
|
1:30 P.M.
Case No. 3 - 79977-6
|
COUNSEL
|
Indoor Billboard/Washington, Inc.
v.
Integra Telecom of Washington, Inc.
|
John Stahl
Sarah Crooks/Lawrence Reichman
|
SYNOPSIS: Did a telephone company violate the Consumer Protection Act when it labeled a charge on its bills as a “Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charge” and does the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission have exclusive original jurisdiction over the case?
|
These summaries are not formulated by the Court and are provided only for the convenience of the public. |
