Washington Supreme Court rules favorably - again

This will be a short post to let you know that the Washington State Supreme Court issued an opinion in my case this morning. Once again the ruling is in favor of the citizens - making six out of six courtroom victories so far in the nearly 12 years this saga has taken. The opinion is decidedly in favor of substantially higher daily penalties being awarded (on remand) by a factor of potentially about 6 times (i.e. a potential $100 per day award vs the latest award of $15 per day for the delay periods for the various documents not produced for, in many cases, 4 years after my request). As two of the justices stated: "...the penalty imposed on remand should approach, if not reach, the maximum statutorily allowed." - the maximum allowed being $100 day (quote is from Justice Jim Johnson's concurring opinion - see links to opinions and articles below). This is a tremendous vindication of the cause I have pursued since May, 1997, nearly 12 years ago.

I've spent much of the day being interviewed by the Associated Press and the Seattle Times and will post links later as material is published. That said, here's what's already come out:

Associated Press article, published so far in Seattle Post Intelligencer and probably out in many other papers (plus many comments by readers)

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/396185_disclosure16.html

Evergreen Freedom Foundation posting:

http://www.libertylive.org/blog_main/post.php?post_id=1103

Seattle Times editorial:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2008633308_editb16yousoufian.html

Tacoma News Tribune:

http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/politics/2009/01/15/supreme_court_says_judge_fined_king_coun

Seattle Times articles, with reader comments:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008634541_disclosure16m.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008632151_webdisclosure16m.html

To read the Supreme Court's opinion(s), for the next two weeks or so, you can go the following link at the site of the Washington State Supreme Court, or, in case it doesn't work, go to http://www.courts.wa.gov/ and follow links to the Appellate Courts, the Supreme Court, and then opinions for January 15, 2009.

Here's the link to the majority opinion (there was one majority opinion, 2 concurring opinions, 1 concurrence/dissent, and 1 dissenting opinion):

http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/index.cfm?fa=opinions.showOpinion&filename=800812MAJ

If you want to read the other 4 opinions (i.e. the 2 concurring opinions, 1 concurrence/dissent, and 1 dissenting opinion), go to this next link, look for cases under today's date, January 15, 2009, and click on the appropriate links following the first listing of my case (Yousoufian vs. Office of Ron Sims):

http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/?fa=opinions.recent

Armen Yousoufian