Supreme Court Calendar

9:00 A.M.

Olympia

May 9, 2013

THREE CASES ONLY - TWO IN A.M. - ONE IN P.M.

Case No. 1 - 88218-5

COUNSEL

LARRY C. OCKLETREE
     v.
FRANCISCAN HEALTH SYSTEM, et al.

Dwayne Christopher/James Beck/Stephanie Bloomfield

Christopher Johnson/Karen Glickstein/Sheryl Willert & Mary Spillane

SYNOPSIS: Does the exemption for nonprofit religious employers from Washington's law against discrimination violate the state constitution?

Case No. 2 - 87697-5

COUNSEL

STATE OF WASHINGTON
     v.
JENNIFER MEGAN MAU

Sara Beigh

John Hays

SYNOPSIS: A jury found that the petitioner presented false information to the claims adjuster for a self-insured rental truck company. In doing so, did she commit the crime of presenting a false claim "for payment of a loss under a contract of insurance?"


1:30 P.M.

Case No. 3 - 88410-2 (consolidated w/88411-1)

COUNSEL

STATE OF WASHINGTON
     v.
JOSEPH T. McENROE & MICHELE KRISTEN ANDERSON

Andrea Vitalich/James Whisman/Scott O'Toole

Kathryn Lund Ross/Leo Hamaji/William Prestia Colleen O'Connor/David Sorenson

SYNOPSIS: Whether the State violates Washington statutes and a defendant's rights to equal protection under the law when, in deciding whether to file a notice to seek the death penalty, the State considers the strength of the evidence of the defendant's guilt in addition to the sufficiency of any mitigating circumstances.

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