Glover v. State

¶1 — Interstate comity directs that Washington courts decline to exercise jurisdiction over claims brought against the government of a sister state if doing so is necessary to allow the sister state the first opportunity to examine the constitutional validity of its own rules and regulations, or if the exercise of jurisdiction would not promote cooperative efforts between the states. In this case, the Whatcom County Superior Court declined to exercise jurisdiction over maritime personal injury claims brought *444by Jesse Glover against his employer, the State of Alaska,1 because those claims…