Mills v. Western Washington University

¶1 We granted Western Washington University’s (University) petition to review a decision of the Court of Appeals in which that court reversed the superior court’s denial of Perry Mills’s request for relief from an order of the University’s Board of Trustees suspending Mills for two academic quarters. The basis of the court’s decision was that the University violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), chapter 34.05 RCW, by closing Mills’s disciplinary hearing to the public. We reverse the Court of Appeals.

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¶2 Perry Mills has been a professor at Western Washington University for more than…