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PORTUGAL v. FRANKLIN COUNTY

No. 100999-2.

530 P.3d 994 (2023)

Gabriel PORTUGAL, Brandon Paul Morales, Jose Trinidad Corral, and League of United Latin American Citizens, Respondents, v. FRANKLIN COUNTY, a Washington municipal entity, Clint Didier, Rodney J. Mullen, Lowell B. Peck, in their official capacities as members of the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, Defendants, James Gimenez, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Filed June 15, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel Bernard Ard , Ard Law Group PLLC, P. O. Box 11633, Bainbridge Island, WA, 98110-5633, for Appellant.

Edwardo Morfin , Morfin Law Firm PLLC, 732 N. Center Pkwy., Kennewick, WA, 99336-8100, Sonni Waknin , Bernadette Samson Reyes , Chad W. Dunn , UCLA Voting Rights Project, 3250 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, Francis Stanley Floyd , Amber L. Pearce , Amanda Dawn Daylong , Floyd Pflueger & Ringer PS, 3101 Western Ave. Ste. 400, Seattle, WA, 98121-3017, for Respondents.

Tera Marie Heintz , Jeffrey Todd Even , Office of The Attorney General, P. O. Box 40100, 1125 Washington Street Se, Olympia, WA, 98504, Sarah Elizabeth Smith , Office of The Attorney General, 800 Fifth Ave. Ste. 2000, Seattle, WA, 98104-3188, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of State of Washington.

David A. Perez , Hannah Elizabeth Mar Parman , Heath Loring Hyatt , Perkins Coie LLP, 1201 3rd Ave. Ste. 4900, Seattle, WA, 98101, for Amici Curiae on behalf of Fred T. Korematsu Center, ACLU of Washington.

Yurij Alexandrovich Rudensky , Wendy Weiser , Alicia Bannon , Brennan Center For Justice, 120 Broadway Ste. 1750, New York, NY, 10271, Nathaniel B. Edmonds , Lindsey Ware Dieselman , Tor Tarantola , 2050 M St. Nw, Washington, DC, 20036, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Brennan Center for Justice.

Tiffany Mae Cartwright , MacDonald Hoague & Bayless, 705 2nd Ave. Ste. 1500, Seattle, WA, 98104-1745, Simone Leeper , Mark P. Gaber , Molly E. Danahy , Aseem Mulji , Valencia Richardson , Benjamin Phillips , Campaign Legal Center, 1101 14th Street Nw, Suite 400, Washington, DC, 20005, Annabelle Harless , Campaign Legal Center, 55 Monroe Street, Suite 1925, Chicago, IL, 60603, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of OneAmerica and Campaign Legal Center.

David B. Owens , Attorney at Law, 100 S King St. Ste. 100, Seattle, WA, 98104-2885, Ruth Greenwood , Nicholas Stephanopoulos , 6 Everett Street, Suite 4105, Cambridge, MA, 02138, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Law School Clinics.

Jonathan Franklin Mitchell , Attorney at Law, 111 Congress Ave. Ste. 400, Austin, TX, 78701-4143, Daniel I. Morenoff , P. O. Box 12207, Dallas, TX, 75225, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of American Civil Rights Project.

¶1 This case presents matters of first impression concerning the interpretation and facial validity of the Washington voting rights act of 2018 (WVRA), ch. 29A.92 RCW.1 As detailed below, the WVRA protects the rights of Washington voters in local elections. In this case, three Latino2

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