Legal Opinion
Seattle Times Co. v. Ishikawa
Washington Supreme Court
Decided February 11, 1982No. 47604-7, 47623-3PublishedCited by 217 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrachtenbach, C.J.
The issue is whether a superior court judge was justified in closing a pretrial hearing involving a motion to dismiss. A corollary question is presented by the judge's sealing of the record of that proceeding and his continued refusal to open the record to the public.
This action arose out of the case of State v. Marler, a murder trial conducted in the King County courtroom of Judge Richard Ishikawa. Two Seattle daily newspapers, the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I), separately filed in this court original mandamus actions against Judge Ishikawa. Those actions, brought…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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