Supreme Court Calendar

9:00 A.M.

Olympia

May 23, 2013

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

Case No. 1 - 88208-8

COUNSEL

PT AIR WATCHERS, et al.
     v.
STATE OF WASHINGTON, DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY, et al.

David Mann

Katharine Shirey/Peter Gonick/Svend Brandt-Erichsen & Dustin Till

SYNOPSIS: Whether the Department of Ecology, in determining that no environmental impact statement was necessary for a proposed project, failed to adequately consider the effects of carbon dioxide emissions and demand for woody biomass, and whether the project is exempt from the environmental impact statement requirement as part of an energy recovery facility that existed before January 1, 1989.

Case No. 2 - 87614-2

COUNSEL

STATE OF WASHINGTON
     v.
BRENDA J. ZILLYETTE

Gerald Fuller

John Hays

SYNOPSIS: Is an information charging a defendant with controlled substances homicide valid when it fails to specify what drug killed the victim?


1:30 P.M.

Case No. 3 - 88317-3

COUNSEL

SCOTT CORNELIUS, et al.
     v.
WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY, et al.

Rachael Paschal Osborn

Alan Reichman/Diane McDaniel/Frank Hruban
Sarah Mack & Lynne Cohee

SYNOPSIS: Whether the Pollution Control Hearings Board correctly determined that the Department of Ecology did not violate the Washington Constitution or Revised Code when it approved Washington State University's applications to amend the water rights serving the Pullman campus.

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