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COWLES PUB. CO. v. SPOKANE POLICE DEPT.

No. 67290-3.

987 P.2d 620 (1999)

139 Wash.2d 472

COWLES PUBLISHING COMPANY, Petitioner, v. SPOKANE POLICE DEPARTMENT, CITY OF SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided October 21, 1999.

As Amended on Denial of Reconsideration January 7, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Witherspoon, Kelley, Davenport & Toole, Duane Michael Swinton, Spokane, for Petitioner.

Cynthia Ellen McMullen, Spokane, for Respondent.

JOHNSON, J.

In Newman v. King County, 133 Wn.2d 565, 947 P.2d 712 (1997), we held the "investigative records" exception to the public disclosure act categorically exempted from disclosure all police investigative records in an unsolved, "open" investigation. The question in the present appeal is whether the same categorical exemption we adopted in...

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