RCW 10.14, Washington’s Anti-Harassment statute, is intended to protect people from unwanted, unreasonable and unjustified contact. However, the statute specifically excludes “constitutionally protected free speech” from being the type of conduct that can subject one to a claim of anti-harassment. In this case, my client was engaging in free...
Read MoreThe call came in 2 days before the Sheriff was scheduled to show up on their doorstep and forcefully remove them and their belongings. They had already been to court and tried to explain everything to the judge. But they didn’t know the law…and it was now right down to the wire. I advised that I could try to help, but the odds were against them at...
Read MoreThe biological mother had more than 5 children removed from her custody and she knew this child would be too. She didn’t even know who the father was. And her good friend was willing to adopt the child before the child was even born. But Mom was on the East Coast and the adoptive parents in Stevens County. This meant the Interstate Compact on the...
Read MoreSome mediation is complex, involving multiple parties and complicated issues or dynamics requiring specialized techniques. In this case we conducted a mediation between a government agency and a private business that involved significant expenditure of capital and long-range planning mixed with complicated regulations and budgeting issues. Representatives from...
Read MoreSometimes asking for an attorney to intervene in a dispute, even for a simple phone call or letter, can help produce results that have been frustratingly elusive previously. In this case, our client had made an application to the county for a permit to install power to the home he was building. Our client felt like he was getting the runaround and in frustration...
Read More