Armen Yousoufian's Blog

After 30 years in business/investment real estate, I added "citizen activist" to my resume in 1997 when I requested sports stadium documents of King County Executive Ron Sims. After being "stonewalled", I sued, winning more at every stage, up to the state Supreme Court. Documents disgorged by Sims (after 4 years denying they existed!) revealed rigged studies. Sims misled the public on the stadiums. Other issues found me (e.g. Critical Areas Ordinance). Google “Armen Yousoufian” for more.

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Location: Vashon, Washington, United States

I was born and raised in New York City. I took classical violin lessons for 10 years and studied astronomy. I built telescopes, grinding the mirrors from scratch. I was a nerd! I considered a career in classical violin but chose astrophysics. I majored in Physics at Rutgers University for 2 years, then switched and graduated in mechanical engineering. I moved to Seattle in 1969 to work on missiles for Boeing, got an MBA from Seattle University, and became a business and real estate entrepreneur for over 30 years. In 1997 I became involved in open government activism when I asked King County Executive Ron Sims for sports stadium documents. I was stonewalled. I sued under the Open Records, or Public Disclosure, Act. I won the case in King County Superior Court, but still didn’t get all the documents, nor recovered my legal fees, which the law said I was entitled to be reimbursed. I appealed and won more in the Court of Appeals and the court of public opinion. But I still didn’t get all the documents! I appealed again and won yet more in the Washington State Supreme Court. But I still don’t have all the documents! While that fight goes on I have become involved in new issues.

Friday, February 29, 2008

Video of oral argument at www.tvw.org

The February 26, 2008 oral argument video is now up at the website of our state cable public channel - TVW. Use the link below or go to http://www.tvw.org/ and look for Washington State Supreme Court cases in 2008, then find my case under the date of February 26, 2008. For awhile in the past 24 hours, it was the "featured video", displayed in the upper left area of the home page of tvw. If/when you go to the tvw website, if you see a Supreme Court case as the featured video, you should also see a scroll bar with various videos just below the Supreme Court main video window. If you scroll that horizontally, you may see my case and can just click on that to view it.

Otherwise, the link below should get you directly to the portion of tvw's website where you can click on the appropriate button to view the video. If you go to the podcast area, you can also download the audio.

http://www.tvw.org/media/mediaplayer.cfm?evid=2008020018B&TYPE=V&CFID=3301934&CFTOKEN=ada39fc170598fac-65FEE8CD-3048-349E-4E3537D3CE3A4877&bhcp=1

posted by Armen Yousoufian | 8:31 AM

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