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SPOKANE COUNTY v. STATE

No. 97739-9.

469 P.3d 1173 (2020)

SPOKANE COUNTY, a Washington municipal entity; Al French, an individual taxpayer and current Spokane County Commissioner; John Roskelley, an individual taxpayer and former Spokane County Commissioner; and Washington State Association of Counties, a Washington non-profit association, Appellants, v. The STATE of Washington, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Washington.

Filed August 20, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Francis Driscoll Jr. , Attorney at Law, 1115 W. Broadway Ave., Spokane, WA, 99260-2043, Paul J. Lawrence , Gregory J. Wong , Pacifica Law Group LLP, 1191 2nd Ave. Ste. 2000, Seattle, WA, 98101-3404, Kai Andrew Smith , Attorney at Law, Pacifica Law Group, 1191 2nd Ave., Seattle, WA, 98101, for Appellant(s).

Jeffrey Todd Even , Office of The Attorney General, PO Box 40100, 1125 Washington St. Se, Olympia, WA, 98504-0100, for Respondent(s).

Breanne Schuster , American Civil Liberties Union of Washin, Nancy Lynn Talne , ACLU-WA, PO Box 2728, Seattle, WA, 98111-2728, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Aclu of Washington.

Tiffany Mae Cartwright , Macdonald Hoague & Bayless, 705 2nd Ave. Ste. 1500, Seattle, WA, 98104-1745, Aseem Mulji , Simone Leeper , Campaign Legal Center, 1101 14th Street NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC, 20005, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Oneamerica.

¶ 1 In 2018, the legislature enacted Substitute House Bill 2887 (SHB 2887), requiring noncharter counties with populations of 400,000 or more to elect five county commissioners by 2022, when originally such counties were required to elect three. SHB 2887 will also require affected counties to fund a redistricting committee to create...

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