Washington Fourth Amendment Law

<h2> <center> Crawford v. Washington </h2> </center>

Petitioner was tried for assault and attempted murder. The State sought to introduce a recorded statement that petitioner's wife Sylvia had made during police interrogation, as evidence that the stabbing was not in self-defense. Sylvia did not testify at trial because of Washington's marital privilege. Petitioner argued that admitting the evidence would violate his Sixth Amendment right to be "con... More...

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<H2> Randey Thompson v. Central Valley School District No. 365, et al.

Spokane, Washington, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on retaliation in violation of the First Amendment theory. Thompson was placed on paid administrative leave and subsequently transferred to a teaching position as a result of his posting on Facebook a comment about the Democratic National Convention that used epithets, slurs, and violent language.... More...

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Vanessa Velasco Ortega v. Isaiah Holloway, et al.

Spokane, Washington personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on civil rights violation theories. Isaiah Holloway and Vanessa Velasco Ortega cross-appeal from the district court's order granting in part and denying in part Holloway's motion for summary judgment. Holloway encountered Velasco Ortega in the course of his duties as a Deputy Police Officer for the O... More...

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Leona M. Qualey v. Pierce County, et al.

Tacoma, Washington personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a civil rights violation theory. The suit calls tOn Jan. 16, 2022, Moses Portillo was shot and killed. The plaintiff claimed that the shooting "unnecessary, reckless, negligent and wrongful,â€ and it claims Dolan violated proper police procedure, Sheriff's Department's policies and procedures and Washi... More...

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<H2> Jamall S. Baker v. Tammy O'Reilly

Seattle, Washington civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a prisoner civil rights violation claim. * * * Prisoner civil rights laws protect inmates from violations of their constitutional rights while incarcerated. These laws safeguard against cruel and unusual punishment, discrimination, and denial of due process. Key areas of protection include freedom from excessiv... More...

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United States of America v. Jackson Daniel Bowers

Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of heroine. In 2019, pursuant to a guilty plea, Bowers was convicted of possession of heroin with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. Â§ 841(a)(1), (b)(C). He was sentenced to 36 months imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release. In 2023, after Bowers co... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Ronnie Griffin </h1>

<h2><center> Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug trafficking </font/color="red"></center><center> Drug trafficker who assisted stepson with trafficking ring tied to Aryan prison gangs sentenced to over six years in prison </h2></center> </h2></center> 66-year-o... More...

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Monet Carter-Mixon, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Manuel Ellis, et al. v. City of Tacoma, et al.

Tacoma, Washington personal injury wrongful death lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on civil rights violation theories claiming that Tacoma Police Officers Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Masyth Ford used excessive force when they attempted to arrest him in 2021. The Complaint: Plaintiffs, MONET CARTER-MIXON as Personal Representative of the ESTAT... More...

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State of Washington v. Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Timothy Rankine

Tacoma, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Timothy Rankine who were charged with murder for killing Manuel "Mannyâ€ Ellis, who was killed by the Tacoma police officers. The Pierce County Medical Examiner ruled that Ellis, a black man, was murdered. 2.1 Plaintiff Monet Carter-Mixon: Monet Carter-Mixon ("Ms. Carter-Mixonâ�... More...

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R.W. v. Columbia Basin College

Richland, Washington employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a Family Medical Leave Act violation theory. R.W., a nursing student at Columbia Basin College, revealed to his doctor that he had homicidal ideations and that he imagined killing his teachers. Upon learning this information from the doctor and conducting further investigation, the Colle... More...

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Bennett Haselton v. Scott Lapierre, et al.

Seattle, Washington civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on civil rights violation theories. The summer of 2020 was one of largescale and impassioned public demonstrations, widespread throughout the United States, calling for police reform and an end to systemic racism. The movement was spurred in particular by the murder of unarmed suspect George Floyd by... More...

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United States of America v. Lamar Allen Thompson

Tacoma, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with producing and possessing images of child sexual abuse. A 2018 investigation revealed that Lamar Allen Thompson, who was on state supervision as a sex offender for a 2016 conviction for molesting two minor children, filmed his molestation of two different minor children. Washington State Department of Correc... More...

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Richard S. Wilkinson v. Scott Rodgers, et al.

Spokane, Washington civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on First Amendment violation theories. This matter relates to a Position Statement adopted by the Washington Medical Commission ("WMCâ€) on September 22, 2021 to address misinformation related to COVID-19 and the available treatments. A detailed factual background in discussed in the Court's Order... More...

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Twin W. Owners' Association v. Andrew Murphy and Jennifer Murphy

Waterville, Washington civil litigation lawyer represented Defendant sued by a homeowners' association seeking to enforce a restrictive covenant restricting vacation rental of residence for vacation. We swim across the Columbia River from Chelan County, the situs of the land in Wilkinson v. Chiwawa Communities Association, 180 Wn.2d 241, 327 P.3d 614 (2014), 2 to Douglas Cou... More...

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Michael Crawford v. State of Washington

Justic Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court: Petitioner was tried for assault and attempted murder. The State sought to introduce a recorded statement that petitioner's wife Sylvia had made during police interrogation, as evidence that the stabbing was not in self-defense. Sylvia did not testify at trial because of Washington's marital privilege. Petitioner argued that admitting the ... More...

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Mickey Fowler, et al. v. Tracy Guerin, et al.

Seattle, Washington civil litigation lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued defendants on a class action basis claiming that property or rights owned by them were taken in violation of the Fifth Amendment. This certified question asks us to clarify the standards for equitable tolling in civil cases under Washington law. The underlying federal case involves a long-running dispute... More...

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United States of America v. John Edward McGinnis

Spokane, Washington criminal law lawyer represented defendant charged with Assault with Dangerous Weapon in Indian Country, Arson in Indian Country, Felon in Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition, and Discharging and Using a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence. McGinnis had entered a guilty plea on May 21, 2021. At today's sentencing, United States Senior District Judg... More...

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In the Matter of the Detention of: J.M.

Tacoma, Washington civil rights lawyer represented Defendant, who sued Defendant claiming that his constitutional rights were violated. J.M. appeals the trial court's order for 180 days of involuntary commitment. J.M. argues that (1) his statutory right to remain silent under former RCW 71.05.360(8)(d) (2017)1 was violated, (2) his due process rights under the Fifth Amendment apply in an ... More...

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Dep't of Ecology v. Acquavella

<center><h2><center> Yakima, WA - Water Rights lawyer represented defendant with a Yakama Nation treaty that reserved water rights for the Yakama Nation claim. </h2></center> This case presents the culmination of the fight for surface water rights that arguably began in 1855 with the Yakama Nation treaty that reserved water rights for the Yakama N... More...

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United States of America v. Cameron Shea

Seattle, Washington hate crime charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Cameron Shea, 25, a leader of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, pled guilty to federal conspiracy and hate crime charges for threatening journalists and advocates who worked to expose anti-Semitism. Shea pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit three offenses against the United States: i... More...

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United States of America v. Kelly Thomas Jackson

Seattle, Washington "Molotov Cocktail" possession charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Kelly Thomas Jackson, age 21, who was charged with unlawful possession of a destructive device in violation of 26 U.S.C. 2561 and 5845. Jackson was arrested in September 2020 when he was identified as the person who used Molotov cocktails to burn two Seattle Police vehicles in downtown ... More...

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United States of America v. Baoke Zhang

Seattle, Washington wire fraud criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged scheme to defraud several COVID-19 relief programs. Baoke Zhang, 35, of Issaquah, Washington, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud as part of his guilty plea, Zhang admitted that he carried out a scheme to defraud several different government and private COVID-19 relief programs intended to assist th... More...

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United States of America v. Desmond David-Pitts

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Seattle_WA_Fed.jpg"> </center> Seattle, WA - The United States of America charged Desmond David-Pitts, age 19, with arson. DESMOND DAVID-PITTS was arrested shortly after the fire following a Monday night protest march. DAVID-PITTS appeared today in U.S. District Court in Seattle. �... More...

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United States of America v. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission

Spokane, WA - The United States of America charged The Texas Health and Human Services Commission with violating the False Claims Act The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (THHSC) has agreed to pay the United States $15,294,360 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in its administration of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Department... More...

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David Weil v. Citizens Telecom Services Company, LLC

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.wawb.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/slideshow/SeattleCourthouse1.jpg"> </center> Hearsay does not include statements offered against a party, made by that party’s employee on a matter within the scope of the employee’s employment, so long as the statement was made while the employee was still employed by that party. F... More...

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Patricia Anderson v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.wawb.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/slideshow/SeattleCourthouse1.jpg"> </center> Patricia Anderson and Thomas Anderson’s single-car accident in 1998 began a saga of litigation culminating in this appeal. Little of the tragic history involving nine different trial and appellate proceedings is relevant to this opinion, in which we determ... More...

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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) v. Global Horizons, Inc., d/b/a Global Horizons Manpower, Inc.; Green Acre Farms, Inc., Valley Fruit Orchards, LLC

<center> <img width="300" src="https://www.usmarshals.gov/district/wa-e/images/spo_fed_.jpg"> </center> Green Acre Farms and Valley Fruit Orchards (the Growers) are fruit growers in the State of Washington. In 2003, the Growers experienced labor shortages and entered into agreements with Global Horizons, Inc., a labor contractor, to obtain temporary workers for their orchards. Wit... More...

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Jerry Hoang v. Bank of America, N.A.

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.wawb.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/slideshow/SeattleCourthouse1.jpg"> </center> If a creditor fails to make required disclosures under the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), borrowers are allowed three years from the loan’s consummation date to rescind certain loans.1 15 U.S.C. § 1635(f). Borrowers may effect that rescissio... More...

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Debra Lea Wilson v. James Rigby; First Citizens Bank

The filing date of a bankruptcy petition determines the law governing exemptions and freezes the value of the exemptions that the debtor may claim. Because Debra Wilson’s amended bankruptcy schedules sought to claim 4 WILSON V. RIGBY more than Washington law permitted her to claim as of the petition date, we affirm the district court’s decision, limiting her claimed... More...

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American Freedom Defense Initiative v. King County

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.wawb.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/slideshow/SeattleCourthouse1.jpg"> </center> King County provides public transportation in the greater Seattle metropolitan area. The County finances its transit operations in part by selling advertising space on the exterior of buses. Although many municipalities restrict advertising t... More...

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Richard Lee Rynearson, III v. Robert Ferguson

This appeal calls on us to consider the scope of federal court abstention under Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971). In particular, we consider whether federal courts should abstain from exercising jurisdiction over a constitutional challenge to a state criminal statute while there are ongoing state court protection order proceedings arguably related to the challenge to t... More...

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United States of America v. Angel Abel Campos

Spokane, WA - Sureno Gang Member Sentenced to 172 Months in Federal Prison for His Involvement in Discharge of a Firearm During Crime of Violence and Being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm Angel Abel Campos, age 24, of Toppenish, Washington, a documented Sureno gang member, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty in May 2018, to being a felon in possession of a firearm and parti... More...

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Eva Moore v. John Urquhart

This is a class action challenging the constitutionality of a Washington statute that allows tenants to be evicted from their homes without a court hearing. Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief against the Sheriff of King County, whose office enforces the challenged statute by executing the eviction orders. The district court dismissed the action with prejudice... More...

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Mickey Fowler v. Tracy Guerin

Washington public school teachers Mickey Fowler and Leisa Maurer bring this class action to order the Director of the Washington State Department of Retirement Systems (“DRS”) to return interest that was allegedly skimmed from their state-managed retirement accounts. The district court denied the stipulated motion to certify a class and then dismissed the action as prudentially unripe. We conc... More...

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. KING MOUNTAIN TOBACCO COMPANY, INC. <table> <td>

In 2006 the late Delbert Wheeler, Sr., a lifelong-enrolled member of the Yakama Nation in Washington State, purchased “80 acres of trust property . . . from the Yakama Nation Land Enterprise, the agency of the Yakama Nation which is charged with overseeing the maintenance of real property held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Yakama Nation and its members.” Wheeler then op... More...

$0 (08-17-2018 - WA)

State of Washington v. United States of America, et al.`

Seattled, WA - The State of Washington and other states sued the United States of America, Michael R. Pompeo, in his official capacity as Secretary of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, Mike Miller, in his official capacity as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Trade Controls, Sarah Heidema, in her official capacity as Director of Policy, Office of Defense Trade Controls Polic... More...

$0 (08-01-2018 - WA)

Angel Mendez and Jennifer Lynn Garcia v. County of Los Angeles, et al.

On remand from the United States Supreme Court we are tasked with deciding whether the unlawful entry into a residence by two sheriff’s deputies, without a warrant, consent, or exigent circumstances, was the proximate cause of the subsequent shooting and injuries to the plaintiffs. We hold that it was, permitting a federal claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We also hold that the plaintiffs have an i... More...

$4000000 (07-29-2018 - WA)

Danny P.; Angela P.; Nicole B. v. Catholic Health Initiatives

Danny P., Angela P. and Nicole B. (hereafter collectively “P”) appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Catholic Health Initiatives (“CHI”) and Catholic Health Initiatives Medical Plan–Blue Cross Blue Shield (collectively “the Plan”). The Plan denied P’s claim for the cost of Nicole B.’s inpatient stay in Island View Residential Treatment ... More...

$0 (06-09-2018 - WA)

Michelle Echlin v. PearceHealth, d/b/a PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center

We must decide whether, under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, a company that sent letters demanding that hospital patients pay their overdue medical bills meaningfully participated in the hospital’s efforts to collect debts. I Michelle Echlin is a former patient of PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center (PeaceHealth) in Vancouver, 4 ECHLIN V PEACEHEALTH Wash... More...

$0 (04-20-2018 - WA)

Rmg Worldwide, L.L.C., et Ano, vs. Pierce County

RMG Worldwide LLC (RMG) appeals two land use decisions of the Pierce County hearing examiner. In the first decision, the examiner found that RMG could not subdivide its existing golf course for residential development under the General Use zoning that was in effect in 1990, and that RMG must instead submit applications consistent with the current development regulations. In the sec... More...

$0 (12-18-2017 - WA)