Tabor v. Moore

This is an action by the plaintiffs (petitioners), three taxpayers, challenging the procedures of the defendants' (respondents), the Seattle Police Department and the King County Prosecuting Attorney and their officers and agents, in holding persons arrested without warrants on “open charges” or “suspicion.”

The plaintiffs, asserting their standing as taxpayers, allege: (1) that the defendants are engaged in a deliberate “continuing and ongoing practice of holding persons arrested without warrants on ‘open charges’ or ‘suspicion’ ” for unreasonable lengths of .time; (2) that such practices are…