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STATE v. LG ELECTRONICS, INC.

No. 91263-7.

375 P.3d 636 (2016)

The STATE of Washington, Respondent, v. LG ELECTRONICS, INC.; LG Electronica U.S.A., Inc.; Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. a/k/a Royal Philips Electronics North America Corporation; Toshiba Corporation; Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.; Hitachi, Ltd.; Hitachi Displays, Ltd.; Hitachi Electronic Devices (USA), Inc.; and Hitachi Asia, Ltd., Petitioners, and Philips Electronics Industries (Taiwan), Ltd.; Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. f/k/a Samsung Display Device Co., Ltd.; Samsung SDI America, Inc.; Samsung SDI Mexico S.A. De C.V.; Samsung SDI Brasil Ltda.; Shenzhen Samsung Sdi Co, Ltd.; Tianjin Samsung SDI Co, Ltd.; Samsung SDI (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.; Mt Picture Display Co., Ltd.; Panasonic Corporation f/k/a Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.; Panasonic Corporation of North America; Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd.; Cptf Optronics Co. Ltd.; And Chunghwa Picture Tubes (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., Defendants.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Filed July 14, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Lundsgaard , Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP, Pier 70, 2801 Alaskan Way Suite 300, Seattle, WA, 98121-1128, Robert Douglas Stewart , Kipling Law Group PLLC, 4464 Fremont Ave N Suite 300, Seattle, WA, 98103-7291, Aaron Streett , J. Mark Little , Baker Botts, LLP, One Shell Plaza, 910 Louisiana Street, Houston, TX, 77002-4995, Bradford J. Axel , Mathew Lane Harrington , Stokes Lawrence, PS, 1420 5th Ave Suite 3000, Seattle, WA, 98101-2393, Dana E. Foster , Lucius B. Lau , Attorney At Law, 701 Thirteenth Street, N.W., Washington, DC, 20005, Molly A. Terwilliger , Yarmuth Wilsdon PLLC, 1420 5th Avenue Suite 1400, Seattle, WA, 98101-3336, Eliot A. Adelson , Kirkland & Ellis, 555 California Street, San Francisco, CA, 94104, Counsel for Petitioners.

David Michael Kerwin , Washington State Attorney General's Office, 4333 Brooklyn Avenue NE, Seattle, WA, 98195-1016, Callie Anne Castillo , Washington State Attorney General Office, P.O. Box 40100, Olympia, WA, 98504-0100, Counsel for Respondents.

¶ 1 Plaintiffs must file their lawsuits before the applicable statute of limitations runs or their suits will be dismissed as untimely. Historically, sovereigns were not subject to statutes of limitations without their explicit consent. Washington State has consented to some statutes of limitations but not to others. We are...

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