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PUBLIC UTILITY DIST. v. STATE

No. 88949-0.

342 P.3d 308 (2015)

PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 1 OF OKANOGAN COUNTY, a municipal corporation, Petitioner/Cross-Appellant, v. STATE of Washington, Peter Goldmark, Commissioner of Public Lands, Petitioner/Cross-Respondent, and Conservation Northwest, a nonprofit corporation, Petitioner/Cross-Respondent, and Christine Davis, a single person, Trevor Kelpman, a single person, Dan Gebbers and Reba Gebbers, husband and wife, and William C. Weaver, custodian for Christopher C. Weaver, a minor, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

January 29, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Lawrence , Sarah Christine Johnson, Pacifica Law Group LLP, Seattle, WA, for Petitioners.

P. Stephen DiJulio , Adrian Urquhart Winder , Foster Pepper PLLC, Seattle, WA, Michael D. Howe , Attorney at Law, Omak, WA, Michael S. Schechter , Alaska Department of Law-Civil Div., Anchorage, AK, for Respondents.

Elizabeth Ann Pauli , Attorney at Law, William Cody Fosre , Tacoma City Attorney's Office, Tacoma, WA, Peter Samuel Holmes , City of Seattle Law Department, Kelly Nicole Stone , Seattle City Attorney's Office, Seattle, WA, Amicus Curiae on behalf of Cities of Tacoma and Seattle.

Eric Christensen , Cairncross & Hempelmann, P.S., Seattle, WA, Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington Public Utitlity Districts Assoc, Washington Rural Electric Cooperative Assoc, Public Utility Dist No. 1 of Snohomish County.

Philip Albert Talmadge , Talmadge/Fitzpatrick, Seattle, WA, Amicus Curiae on behalf of Western States Land Commissioners Assoc.

David Scott Mann , Gendler & Mann LLP, Seattle, WA, for Other Parties.

¶ 1 This case arises from the protracted history between Public Utility District No. 1 of Okanogan County (PUD) and the Department of Natural Resources (DNR)1 over the installation of an electrical transmission line through school lands managed by DNR in the Methow Valley. At issue is whether PUD is...

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