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O'MEARA v. BD. AGAINST DISCRIM.

No. 35436.

58 Wn.2d 793 (1961)

365 P.2d 1

JOHN J. O'MEARA et al., Respondents, v. THE WASHINGTON STATE BOARD AGAINST DISCRIMINATION, Appellant, RAYMOND D. TORBENSON et al., Defendants, ROBERT L. JONES, Intervenor.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

September 29, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Attorney General, Philip R. Meade, Wing Luke, and Elihu Hurwitz, Assistants, for appellant.

George J. Toulouse, Jr. (Richard M. Thatcher, of counsel), for respondents.

Robert W. Winsor, Howard P. Pruzan, and Marvin B. Durning, for intervenor.

Benjamin S. Asia, Philip L. Burton, Sam L. Levinson, Solie M. Ringold, Toru Sakahara, Leonard W. Schroeter, Charles Z. Smith, David J. Smith, Fredric C. Tausend, Garvin, Ashley & Foster, Paul P. Ashley, Wilbur J. Lawrence, and Byron D. Coney, amici curiae.

FOSTER, J.

This is an appeal by the Washington State Board Against Discrimination from a final judgment holding null and void an order of the appellant requiring John J. O'Meara and his wife to sell their home to the intervenor, Robert L. Jones, who is a Negro.

The constitutionality of the 1957 amendment to the law against discrimination is presented. Laws of 1957, chapter 37, § 3, p. 108, RCW 49.60.030, declares...

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