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SPAIN v. EMPLOYMENT SEC. DEPT.

Nos. 79878-8, 80309-9.

185 P.3d 1188 (2008)

Sara D. SPAIN, Petitioner, v. The EMPLOYMENT SECURITY DEPARTMENT, Respondent. Kusum L. Batey, Respondent, and The Employment Security Department, Petitioner, and Snohomish County Center for Battered Women, Additional Party.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided June 19, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcus Robert Lampson, Unemployment Law Project, Seattle, WA, for Petitioner Sara D. Spain.

Deborah Maranville, U. of Washington, School of Law, Seattle, WA, for Respondent Kusum L. Batey.

Jay Douglas Geck, Jerald R. Anderson, Olympia, Erika G.S. Uhl, Seattle, Atty. General's Office, for Dept. of Employment Security.

Kristopher Ian Tefft, Association of Washington Business, Olympia, WA, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Association of Washington Bus.

Hong Thi Tran, Marcus Robert Lampson, John Tirpak, Unemployment Law Project, Seattle, WA, Laurie A. Powers, Unemployment Law Project, Spokane, WA, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Unemployment Law Project.

Michael Christopher Hoover, Martin Lovinger, Office of Senate Counsel, Timothy George Sekerak, House of Representatives, Olympia, WA, Michele G. Radosevich, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Seattle, WA, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington State Legislature.

CHAMBERS, J.

¶ 1 Washington enacted an unemployment compensation act during an earlier time of great economic insecurity and unemployment to "lighten its burden which now so often falls with crushing force upon the unemployed worker." LAWS OF 1937, ch. 162, § 2. Since the beginning, the system focused on easing that burden on those of us who are in voluntarily out of work. See generally id. ch. 162. But our legislature did not disqualify all...

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