Records of court casescan be searched online by conducting Washington court case lookup. Cases involving juveniles as well as those that name victims of some crimes may be restricted by confidentiality laws. In a recent year, the superior courts disposed of over 46,000 civil and almost 20,000...
THE U.S. AND WASHINGTON CONSTITUTIONS GUARANTEE BOTH THE DEFENDANT'S RIGHT TO PUBLIC TRIAL AND THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT TO OPEN ACCESSWhen a Washington State judge excludes members of the public from court proceedings, or seals records related to a case, the exclusion implicates state and federal ...
“The departing schools continue to undermine our efforts to secure the future of the Pac-12 Conference. They are relying on flimsy arguments to try to escape accountability for their actions,” Oregon State and Washington State said in a statement. Washington’s motion to intervene in the c...
I would follow the courts of Texas (the only jurisdiction in which this precise issue has been addressed) and hold that, where statutes require it, the presence of a legally empowered official is necessary to the creation of a binding oath. Lowry v. State,297 S.W.2d 848(Tex. Crim. App...
In In re Vandercook, supra, we said that an attorney who has withdrawn from a case after accepting a retainer is obliged to refund any portion of the retainer which he has not earned, citing CPE 44. This rule is now embodied in CPR EC 2-32. ...
Strickland, the superintendent of the Florida state prisons. David Leroy Washington, who was accused of the crimes, was the respondent, or defendant, in the case. . The key legal question posed in the appeal centered on whether Washington's trial attorney conducted a defense that was so ...
18 However, in Wooley, the Court held that a state may not force a citizen to disseminate "the State's 19 ideological message," in that case the motto "Live Free or Die" that had been required on New 20 Hampshire license plates. 430 U.S. at 715. The Supreme Court has explained ...
United States presidential election of 1789 was an American presidential election held on February 4, 1789, in which George Washington was unanimously chosen as the first president of the United States.
Confirming the Constitutional Right of Meaningful Access to the Courts in Non-Criminal Cases in Washington StateBy James Bamberger, Published on 11/01/05Bamberger, James ASeattle J.soc.just
A Breach of Trust in the Courts A new global survey shows trust in the U.S. judicial system fell precipitously in the last four years to levels usually seen in war-torn countries or dictatorships. Laura MannweilerDec. 17, 2024 Retail Sales Surged in November ...