Brief Overview
Silent Majority Foundation filed a lawsuit in Thurston County superior court challenging Governor Jay Inslee’s March 11 and 23, 2022 emergency proclamations.
Under Revised Code of Washington (“RCW”), section 43.06, the Governor may declare a state of emergency; however, RCW 43.06.010 requires the Governor to “find” a state of emergency prior to declaring one. We argue that there was not an emergency in all of Washington's 39 counties as 14 counties had 10 or less cases of Covid-19 in their data reports.
UPDATE:
The judge in Thurston County Superior Court held that COVID-19, as an airborne virus, did not respect county boundaries and that the virus need not be regulated on a county-by-county basis, hence, it was properly regulated on a statewide basis. We've appealed the case, noting that the Governor employed local/regional decision-making throughout the pandemic and that the challenged proclamations were not properly declared. We anticipate a decision from the Court of Appeals in fall 2023.
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