AVIATION WEST CORP. v. DEPARTMENT

No. 66574-5.

980 P.2d 701 (1999)

138 Wash.2d 413

AVIATION WEST CORPORATION, Competition Specialties, Inc., Computer Group, Inc., the American Tobacco Company, Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Lorillard Tobacco Company, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and Phillip Morris, Inc., Appellants, v. WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES and Mark Brown, Director, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided July 8, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, Timothy Harold Butler, Andrew Michael Kenefick, Seattle, Covington & Burling, Clausen Ely, Jr., Washington, DC, for Appellant Aviation West Corporation.

Christine O. Gregoire, Atty. Gen., Elliott S. Furst, Asst., Olympia, for Respondent Department of Labor & Industries and Mark Brown.


ALEXANDER, J.

Five major cigarette manufacturing companies and three Washington businesses (hereinafter Companies) brought an action for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief in Thurston County Superior Court against the State of Washington, arguing that a regulation adopted by the Department of Labor and Industries (Department) regulating smoking in private workplaces was invalidly promulgated. The trial court upheld the Department's regulation. The Companies...

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