City of Seattle v. McCready

In this case, we once again consider the constitutionality of portions of the City of Seattle’s Residential Housing Inspection Program (RHIP). In Margola Assocs. v. Seattle, 121 Wn.2d 625, 854 P.2d 23 (1993), we were confronted with a number of constitutional challenges to the funding provisions of the RHIP. We rejected most of these challenges, including those based on taking without just compensation, substantive due process, equal protection, and the impairment of contracts. Margola, 121 Wn.2d at 642-54. We remanded the case for further proceedings, however, because a material question of…