CHURCH OF DIVINE EARTH v. CITY OF TACOMA

No. 96613-3.

449 P.3d 269 (2019)

The CHURCH OF the DIVINE EARTH, Petitioner, v. CITY OF TACOMA, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Washington.

Filed September 19, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Sanders , Carolyn A. Lake , Goodstein Law Group, 501 S. G Street, Tacoma, WA 98405-4715, for Petitioner.

Margaret A. Elofson , City of Tacoma, 747 Market Street, # 1120, Tacoma, WA 98402-3726, for Respondent.

Hannah Sarah Sells Marcley , Attorney at Law, Jackson Wilder Maynard, Jr. , Building Industry Association of Washington, 111 21st Avenue SW, Olympia, WA 98501-2809, for Amicus Curiae (Building Industry Association of Washington).

Brian Trevor Hodges , Pacific Legal Foundation, 255 S. King Street, Suite 800, Seattle, WA 98134, for Amicus Curiae (Pacific Legal Foundation).


¶1 This case concerns whether the city of Tacoma (City) can be held liable for damages for imposing an unlawful condition on a building permit. In an appeal brought under the Land Use Petition Act (LUPA), chapter 36.70C RCW, the superior court ruled that the City acted unlawfully when it placed a condition on the Church of the Divine...

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