SEATTLE SCHOOL DIST. v. STATE

Nos. 47947-0, 48067-2, 48068-1.

97 Wn.2d 534 (1982)

647 P.2d 25

SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1, ET AL, Petitioners, v. THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, ET AL, Respondents. REESE LINDQUIST, ET AL, Appellants, v. JOHN SPELLMAN, as Governor, Respondent. KIPP BLACKWELL, ET AL, Petitioners, v. JOHN SPELLMAN, as Governor, ET AL, Respondents.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

June 24, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael W. Hoge, Foster, Pepper & Riviera, Camden M. Hall, G. Richard Hill, Perkins, Coie, Stone, Olsen & Williams, Lawrence B. Hannah, David J. Burman, Sandra Driscoll, Zelensky, Keough & Mallett, John J. Keough, Inara Horton, Sweet, Dussault & Neff, William Dussault, and Carmela Bowns, for petitioners Seattle School Dist., et al.

Edward A. Hemphill and G.P. Sessions, for petitioners Blackwell.

Judith A. Lonnquist, for appellants.

Kenneth O. Eikenberry, Attorney General, Malachy R. Murphy, Deputy, and Timothy R. Malone, Assistant, for respondent.


BRACHTENBACH, C.J.

This matter came before the court on a motion for injunctive relief. Petitioners, Seattle School District 1 and others, asked this court to enjoin Governor Spellman from enforcing Executive Order 81-17 as it applied to them. Executive Order 81-17 instituted an across-the-board expenditure reduction program to meet the state's recent financial crisis. Following oral argument on October 5, 1981, this court filed its order denying the requested relief...

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