Post v. City of Tacoma

¶1 The city of Tacoma’s building code enforcement department found many of Paul Post’s properties were in violation of Tacoma’s building codes and assessed hundreds of thousands of dollars in civil penalties. Post cooperated with Tacoma for some repairs but ultimately failed to bring all his properties into compliance. Post also sought to appeal many of the fines, but in most cases Tacoma denied a hearing. Post sued, seeking to bar Tacoma from enforcing its building code against him on numerous grounds, including that his rights to due process *304were violated. The trial court granted summary…