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PHONSAVANH PHONGMANIVAN v. HAYNES

No. 16-36018.

918 F.3d 1021 (2019)

PHONSAVANH PHONGMANIVAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Ron HAYNES, SCCC Superintendent, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 19, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann K. Wagner , Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender Office, Seattle, Washington, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Alex Kostin , Assistant Attorney General, Corrections Division; Robert W. Ferguson , Attorney General; Office of the Washington Attorney General, Olympia Washington; for Respondent-Appellee.

Before: Sandra S. Ikuta and Morgan Christen, Circuit Judges, and Jennifer Choe-Groves, Judge.

ORDER

We respectfully ask the Washington Supreme Court to answer the certified question presented below, pursuant to Revised Code of Washington ("RCW") § 2.60.020, because we have concluded that a dispositive question of state law applies to the claim, and therefore "it is necessary to ascertain the local law of [Washington] state in order to dispose of [this] proceeding and the local law has not been clearly determined."

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