Supreme Court Calendar

9:30 A.M.

Olympia

March 13, 2008

Case No. 1 - 81006-1

COUNSEL

Michael McKee
      v.
AT&T Corporation

Scott Kane/Leslie Bailey/F. Paul Bland, Jr.

Daniel Waggoner/Cassandra Kinkead

SYNOPSIS: Is a consumer arbitration agreement that prohibits class action, excludes punitive damages and attorney fees, requires confidentiality, and shortens the statute of limitations unconscionable under Washington Law?  And does U.S. law preempt Washington law in this area?

Case No. 2 - 81029-0

COUNSEL

Washington State Major League Baseball
Stadium Public Facilities District; et al.
     v.
Huber, Hunt & Nichols-Kiewit Construction, et al.

Long Painting, Inc., et al.

Stephen Rummage/Zachary Tomlinson/John Parnass


David Groff, Jr./Michael Grace/Theodore Sheffield

Richard Stanislaw/Christopher Wright/Richard Martens
Steven Stolle

SYNOPSIS: Whether a lawsuit brought by the State Major League Baseball Stadium Public Facilities District and the Seattle Mariners for alleged Safeco Field construction defects is a sovereign act and therefore exempt from the six-year contract statute of limitations?


1:30 P.M.

Case No. 3 - 79992-0

COUNSEL

State of Washington
     v.
Gary Nathaniel Gatewood, Sr.

Christine Keating/James Whisman

Susan Wilk

SYNOPSIS: Whether officers' warrantless seizure of the defendant was justified by a reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal activity.

Case No. 4 - 81028-1

COUNSEL

Nancy Adams, et ux.
     v.
King County, et al.

Stephen Bulzomi/Jeremy Johnston

Grant Degginger/June Kaiser Campbell/Ryan McBride

SYNOPSIS: Whether a person who makes an anatomical gift by signing an organ donor form attached to a driver's license only authorizes hospitals to accept such a gift.

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