Guillen v. Pierce County

¶32 (dissenting) — The plaintiffs brought a road-liability case against Pierce County. The County responded by denying a great deal of obviously relevant discovery pursuant to its erroneous reading of a federal funding statute and by asserting that the claim-filing statute had not been met. On the discovery matter, two different trial courts (Judge John A. McCarthy in the 1998 personal injury case and Judge Frederick B. Hayes in a related case based on the public disclosure act, chapter 42.17 RCW) rejected the County’s position. We granted discretionary review and rejected the County’s…