CITY OF SUMNER v. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SUMNER

No. 47096-1.

97 Wn.2d 1 (1982)

639 P.2d 1358

THE CITY OF SUMNER, Respondent, v. THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SUMNER, ET AL, Appellants.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

February 4, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Gibbs, Robert L. Gunter, and Charles E. Craze, for appellants.

Mann, King, Bingham, Scraggin, Manger & Pemberton and Gordon A. Scraggin, for respondent.

Fredric C. Tausend and David E. Engdahl, amici curiae.


This cause, certified here by the Court of Appeals, presents a conflict between the power of the State to require conformance to zoning and building code regulations on the part of a private, church-operated school and, conversely, upon the right of members of the appellant church to freely exercise their professed religious beliefs by providing Christian education for their children.

The case was first argued to this court...

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