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Category Archives: Litigation

With most of his estate now liquidated, Tim Eyman’s bankruptcy is finally winding down

Excerpt: Judge Marc Barreca's May 19th order granting trustee Virginia Burdette's motion to abandon the property of the estate ("other than the funds on deposit in the estate's bank account") indicates that the case has moved into its final stages.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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A roundup of reaction to the Supreme Court’s Quinn ruling upholding WA’s capital gains tax

Excerpt: Read what elected officials, advocacy organizations, and other think tanks are saying about the Washington State Supreme Court's decision upholding the capital gains tax on the wealthy.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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VICTORY! Washington State Supreme Court upholds new capital gains tax on the wealthy

Excerpt: The Court voted 7-2 in favor of finding that Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5096 (the law that created the capital gains tax) is indeed an excise tax. The majority opinion, authored by Associate Justice Debra L. Stephens, also rejected the Quinn plaintiffs' other arguments, affirming the law's constitutionality.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Whichever way the Supreme Court decides the Quinn case, it will be making public policy

Excerpt: Read NPI alum Patrick Stickney's assessment of the oral argument in Quinn et al v. State of Washington et al, the right wing legal challenge to Washington State's new capital gains tax on the wealthy.
Written by:Patrick Stickney
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Republicans fail in their attempt to intervene in signature verification legal challenge

Excerpt: The Republicans’ philosophy on litigation is never to spend one dollar when two (or more) will do. Judge Shaffer may have saved the party some money, needed until recently (when he announced his candidacy) to pay Trump’s legal bills.
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Impressions from today’s oral arguments in right wing’s capital gains tax legal challenge

Excerpt: Here's what it was like to be in the courtroom for oral arguments in Quinn et al v. State of Washington et al, the right wing legal challenge to the constitutionality of our recently enacted capital gains tax on the wealthy.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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National, state Republicans file against voters in signature verification legal challenge

Excerpt: State and national Republicans are filing briefs in a lawsuit that seeks to end the error-filled signature verification process on Washington’s mail-in ballots. The suit they are intervening in alleges that thousands of valid votes get rejected and that rejections hit a disproportionate number of younger, Black, Latino/Latina and disabled voters.
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Washington State Supreme Court rules capital gains tax on wealthy can be collected for now

Excerpt: The ruling, requested by Attorney General Bob Ferguson, frees the Department of Revenue (DOR) to proceed with collecting the new capital gains tax, which is a crucial new funding source for education, preschool, and early learning. 
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Grand settlement agreed to by the parties in Tim Eyman’s Chapter 7 bankruptcy case

Excerpt: A grand settlement backed by the estate's court-appointed trustee and agreed to by all the parties involved in the right wing activist's Chapter 7 case has been submitted to Bankruptcy Court Judge Marc Barreca for final approval next month, records recently filed with the court and examined by NPI show.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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The dishonesty of the Dobbs majority

Excerpt: "More than a gutting of reproductive rights and women's rights, Dobbs is a breach of trust," attorney Cat Williams writes in this guest post for NPI's Cascadia Advocate.
Written by:Cat Williams
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Distract and distort: Republicans declare Alito Court the victim after anti-Roe draft leaks

Excerpt: The extreme right wing has moved quickly to distract and distort in the wake of Politico's publication of Samuel Alito's draft opinion holding that the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision was egregiously wrong.
Written by:Joel Connelly
Other Categories:Civil Liberties, Healthcare, Policy Topics
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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts admits that leaked Alito draft is authentic

Excerpt: A draft of a majority opinion overturning the United States Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 and leaked to Politico is authentic, Chief Justice John Roberts has admitted in a statement released by the Court.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Draft of opinion overturning Roe v. Wade leaks out of the United States Supreme Court

Excerpt: Authored by Samuel Alito, one of George W. Bush's two Supreme Court appointees, the draft declares that "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start" and "the decision has had damaging consequences."
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Redistricting Chair resigns as commissioners deadlock on intervening in federal lawsuit

Excerpt: At its March 7th meeting, the four member commission, which is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans -- lost its nonvoting chair, Sarah Augustine, while the commissioners deadlocked on responding to a federal lawsuit that alleges the Voting Rights Act wasn't followed when the new maps were drawn.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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