This is an appeal by the guardian ad litem appointed for William Matthew Bowman (Matthew) prior to Matthew's death, from the decision of the Snohomish County Superior Court ruling that because he had suffered irreversible loss of brain activity, he was in fact dead on October 17, 1979. Issu...
document from the information charging the underlying crime. In State v. Manussier, 129 Wash. 2d 652,921 P.2d 473(1996), also heard as a companion case to this case and the Rivers case, the Pierce County Prosecutor filed a "Most Serious Offense Notice," informing the defendant that he ...
Vice Presidential Nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Alongside Actress Cynthia Erivo, Sophia Bush and other distinguished guests from the LGBTQ community advocate for Equality at Human Rights Campaign’s 2024 National Dinner in Washington, DC. Human Rights Campaign brought together LGBTQ+ advocates ...
The best solution to the problem of an illegitimate Supreme Court is to reform it. Ideally, there would be a nonpolitical way to choose justices (as in Europe) so that they are judges and not politicians. Short of that, there could be a system of staggered term limits so that presidents...
Through a deeply insightful journey, Lawson leads readers from a castle in France to a hula hoop competition in Jamaica to a traditional theater in Tokyo to a Prince concert in Minnesota and, finally, to finding liberation on a beach in Bermuda, exploring each location—and their deepest emotio...
1) Speaking for a Romney-Ryan administration, Ryan said, “We don’t think that unelected judges should make this decision.” Seems pretty definitive, that Romney would push legislation and regulations–but does not preclude appointing anti-abortion judges, though it does not promise to do so....
District Court for Minnesota, in Norwest Communications v. St. Paul, regarding franchise monopoly in cable television, May/June 1988. Before the Florida State House of Representatives on cable television franchising legislation, March 1991. Before the U.S. District Court for Northern California, in...
One of Washington’s ington, and the County of most prominent African Washington into the District of Americans, Frederick Douglass, lived Columbia. A governor and a board of at Cedar Hill, across the river in public works were appointed by Presi- Anacostia. Born a slave in Maryland, dent ...
On October 29, 1985, the defendant, Dean Allen Bernhard, *529 pleaded guilty to second degree burglary. Bernhard had two prior convictions, one of which resulted in a substantial period of time in county jail. The trial court imposed sentence pursuant to the SRA, under which Bernhard had an...