Hallin v. Trent

These consolidated cases arise from the enactment of Laws of 1979, 1st Ex. Sess., ch. 202, providing for new judicial positions in the Superior Courts for Cowlitz, Kitsap and Pierce Counties. New judicial positions in the superior courts of other counties were also provided in chapter 202, but they are not at issue here.

All of the judicial positions established by chapter 202 in the three counties above named were to be effective January 1, 1981. Chapter 202, as it was sent to the Governor, consisted of six numbered sections, the last section of which the Governor vetoed. The vetoed section…