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RESPONSIBLE GROWTH v. PEND OREILLE PUBLIC

No. 36736-3-III.

466 P.3d 1122 (2020)

RESPONSIBLE GROWTH *NE WASHINGTON; Citizens Against Newport Silicon Smelter; Theodore & Phyllis Kardos; Denise D. Teeples; Gretchen L. Koenig; Sheryl L. Miller; James W. & Rosemary Chandler; and Pamela Byers Luby, Appellants, v. PEND OREILLE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 1; Pend Oreille County; and HiTest Sand, Inc., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 3.

FILED July 2, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Kirk Eichstaedt , Gonzaga University School of Law, 721 N Cincinnati St., Spokane, WA, 99202-2021, Jedediah W. Barden , Barden & Barden, Po Box 8663, Spokane, WA, 99203-0663, for Appellants.

John Ray Nelson , Foster Garvey PC, 618 W Riverside Ave. Ste. 300, Spokane, WA, 99201-5102, Tyler Robert Whitney , Attorney at Law, Po Box 190, Newport, WA, 99156-0190, Joseph Anthony Rehberger , Cascadia Law Group PLLC, 606 Columbia St. Nw Ste. 212, Olympia, WA, 98501-1093, Stephen J. Tan , Cascadia Law Group, 1201 3rd Ave. Ste. 320, Seattle, WA, 98101-3075, Peter A. Witherspoon , James McPhee , Witherspoon Brajcich McPhee, PLLC, 601 W Main Ave. Ste. 714, Spokane, WA, 99201-0677, Nathan Graham Smith , Brian E. Kistler , Kutak Rock LLP, 510 W Riverside Ave. Ste. 800, Spokane, WA, 99201-0506, for Respondents.

PANEL: Judges Fearing, Korsmo, Lawrence-Berrey.

¶ 1 This appeal asks whether a public utility district (PUD) holds authority to purchase land for a utility easement even though the PUD may have had the ulterior motive to sell the land to a third party. The appeal also asks if a public utility district's sale of land is ultra vires if the district fails to follow the statutory...

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