GUARDIANSHIP ESTATE OF KEFFELER v. STATE, DSHS

No. 67680-1.

88 P.3d 949 (2004)

151 Wash.2d 331

GUARDIANSHIP ESTATE OF Danny KEFFELER, by Wanda PIERCE, Guardian, and other persons similarly situated, Respondents, v. STATE of Washington, Department of Social and Health Services; Lyle Quasim, Director of the Department of Social and Health Services; and Michael R. Hobbs, Program Manager for the Department of Social and Health Services, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided April 29, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christine O. Gregoire, Attorney General, Debra Casparian, Asst., Olympia, WA, Lawrence Lockwood, Asst., Lacey, WA, William Collins, Asst., Olympia, WA, for Appellants.

Rodney Reinbold, Okanogan, WA, Richard B. Price, Omak, WA, for Respondents.

Eugene A. Studer, Assistant United States Attorney, Tacoma, WA, Deborah Kant, William Kanter, Colette Matzzie, and Peter D. Ke Bler, of the Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae (Commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration).


OWENS, J.

The representative class plaintiff, Keffeler, argues that the State violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution by misusing funds and refusing to exercise discretion in social security fund disbursement, causing foster children with the State as a representative payee to be treated differently from children with a private representative payee. Keffeler further argues that the State of Washington violated...

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