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MORIN v. HARRELL

No. 79971-7.

164 P.3d 495 (2007)

Melanie MORIN, Appellant, v. Clarence HARRELL & Hazel Harrell, husband and wife and their marital community, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided August 9, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Guyton Simmons, Simmons Law PLLC, Bellevue, WA, for Appellant.

Douglas Warr Nicholson, Cone Gilreath Ellis Cole & Anderson, Ellensburg, WA, for Respondents.

Robert H. Lavitt, Schwerin Campbell Barnard & Iglitzin LLP, Seattle, WA, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Service Employees International Union 775.

Anastasia R. Sandstrom, Attorney General's Office, Seattle, WA, Carol A. Murphy, Attorney General's Office, Olympia, WA, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of State of Washington.

J.M. JOHNSON, J.

¶ 1 Article II, section 19 of our constitution provides that "[n]o bill shall embrace more than one subject" and requires that the subject "shall be expressed in the title."1 Violation of either the single subject rule or the subject in title rule exposes a law to constitutional challenge.2 However, such a challenge is precluded when the allegedly constitutionally infirm legislation has...

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