CANNABIS ACTION COALITION v. CITY OF KENT

Nos. 70396-0-I, 69457-0-I.

322 P.3d 1246 (2014)

CANNABIS ACTION COALITION, Arthur West, Plaintiffs, Steve Sarich, John Worthington, and Deryck Tsang, Appellants, v. CITY OF KENT, a local municipal corporation, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

March 31, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Scott Mann , Gendler & Mann LLP, Aaron A. Pelley , Pelley Law PLLC, Seattle, WA, Joseph L. Broadbent , Attorney at Law, Sultan, WA, for Appellants.

Arthur West, (Appearing Pro Se), Olympia, WA, for Appellants.

Steve Sarich, (Appearing Pro Se), Seattle, WA, for Appelants.

John Worthington, (Appearing Pro Se), Renton, WA, for Appelants.

Arthur Merritt Fitzpatrick , Thomas C. Brubaker , David Andrew Galazin , City of Kent Legal Department, Kent, WA, for Respondent.

Timothy J. Donaldson , J. Preston Frederickson , Walla Walla City Attorneys, Walla Walla, WA, Kathleen J. Haggard , Timothy James Reynolds , Porter Foster Rorick LLP, Seattle, WA, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington State Association of Municipal Attorneys.

Jared Van Kirk , Garvey Schubert Barer , Seattle, WA, Sarah A. Dunne , Mark Muzzey Cooke , ACLU of Washington, Seattle, WA, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of American Civil Liberties Union.


PUBLISHED OPINION

DWYER, J.

¶ 1 The Washington Constitution grants the governor the power to veto individual sections of a bill. The governor may exercise this power even when doing so changes the meaning or effect of the bill from that which the legislature intended. As a corollary of this power, when the governor's sectional veto alters the intent of the bill and the legislature does not override the veto, the governor's veto message becomes the exclusive...

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