BOSTEDER v. CITY OF RENTON

No. 74934-5.

117 P.3d 316 (2005)

Darwin L. BOSTEDER, Appellant, v. The CITY OF RENTON, a municipal corporation; Robert L. Arthur and Jane Doe Arthur, husband and wife; James Gray and Jane Doe Gray, husband and wife; Charles J. Karlewicz and Jane Doe Karlewicz, husband and wife; Christine Paget and John Doe Paget, husband and wife; James D. Gould and Jane Doe Gould, husband and wife; Mark Klinke and Jane Doe Klinke, husband and wife; Terry Barclay and Jane Doe Barclay, husband and wife, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided July 28, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric Rolf Stahlfeld, Seattle, for Appellant.

Zanetta Lehua Fontes, Warren Barber & Fontes PS, Renton, John William Cobb, Seattle, for Respondents.


FAIRHURST, J.

¶ 1 In a series of three decisions in 1994 and 1997, we determined that noncriminal administrative search warrants are invalid under the state constitution absent a court rule or statute that authorizes the issuance of such warrants. In those cases, we found no such authorizing statute or court rule and declared the warrants and searches purportedly conducted pursuant to those warrants void. We are now asked to determine whether the same type of...

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