WASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL v. REED

No. 73235-3.

65 P.3d 1203 (2003)

149 Wash.2d 48

WASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL; Washington Retail Association; Washington Restaurant Association; Washington Food Industry; Washington Growers League; Aerospace Machinist Union No. 751; Washington Bankers Association; Purse Seine Vessel Owners Association; Coalition of Coastal Fisheries; Washington Food Processors Council; Washington State Auto Dealers Association, Inc.; Safeway, Inc.; Winco Foods, Inc.; Stormans, Inc.; and Fuller Market Basket, Inc., Petitioners, and Gary Locke, Governor of the State of Washington, Intervenor/Petitioner, v. Sam REED, in his official capacity as Secretary of State of the State of Washington, Respondent, and Elliot J. Swaney and Vote No on New Taxes, Intervenors/Respondents.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided April 3, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen Benedict, Robin Dale, Erik Price, Olympia, Lane Powell Spears Lubersky, Michael King, Seattle, for petitioners.

Christine Gregoire, Atty. Gen., Narda Pierce, Jeffrey Even, William Collins, Asst. Attys. Gen., for respondent.

Timothy Ford, Kristopher Tefft, Christine Gregoire, Olympia, for respondent intervener.

Groen Stephens & Klinge, Richard Stephens, Diana Kirchheim, John Groen, Bellevue, for amicus curiae on behalf of Wash. State Legislature.


ALEXANDER, C.J.

An order was previously entered in this matter dissolving the temporary injunction we had earlier entered against Secretary of State Sam Reed. The injunction prevented him from certifying the results of the election on Referendum Measure 53. In that order we indicated that "[a]n opinion explaining the court's decision will be issued in due course." Wash. State Labor Council v. Reed, No. 73235-2, at...

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