NORTHWEST GAS ASS'N v. WASHINGTON UTILITIES & TRANSP. COM'N

No. 36057-8-II.

168 P.3d 443 (2007)

NORTHWEST GAS ASSOCIATION, Olympic Pipe Line Company, Chevron Pipe Line Company, Northwest Terminaling Company, Yellowstone Pipe Line Company, Conocophillips Pipe Line Company, BP West Coast Products LLC, Intalco Aluminum Corporation, McChord Pipeline Company, Terasen Pipelines (Puget Sound) Corporation, Valero L.P., Portland General Electric, B-R Pipeline Company, and KB Pipeline Company, Appellants, v. WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, Respondent, Bellingham Herald and Allied Daily Newspapers, Intervenors.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 2.

October 2, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Jeffrey Courser, Attorney at Law, Vancouver, WA, Vanessa Soriano Power, Stoel Rives LLP, Seattle, WA, Timothy Laurence McMahan, Stoel Rives Law Firm, William J. Lehman, Attorney at Law, Portland, OR, Michael Alan Nesteroff, Lane Powell PC, Arthur Washington Harrigan Jr., Danielson Harrigan Leyh & Tollefson LLP, Christopher Thomas Wion, DHLT LLP, Stephen J. Tan, Cascadia Law Group, Seattle, WA, Jennifer Tanya Barnett, Cascadia Law Group, Olympia, WA, Jason Thomas Kuzma, Sheree Strom Carson, Perkins Coie LLP, Bellevue, WA, for Appellants.

Robert Daniel Cedarbaum, Office of Atty. Gen., Olympia, for Respondent.

Shelley Marie Hall, Stokes Lawrence, Seattle, WA, for Respondent and Intervenors.

Harold Malkin, Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo PLLC, Jordan Gross, Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo PLLC, Seattle, WA, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of the American Petroleum Institute.

Signe H. Brunstad, University of Washington School of Law, William H. Gates Hall, Seattle, WA, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington Coalition for Open Government.


HUNT, J.

¶ 1 Plaintiffs Northwest Gas Association, Olympic Pipe Line Company, Chevron Pipe Line Company, Northwest Terminaling Company, BP West Coast Products LLC, McChord Pipeline Company, Intalco Aluminum Corporation, Yellowstone Pipe Line Company, ConocoPhillips Pipe Line Company, Terasen Pipelines (Puget Sound) Corporation, Valero LP, Portland General Electric, B-R Pipeline Company, and KB Pipeline Company (collectively, "the Pipelines") appeal the Thurston...

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