Opinion ID: 1411076
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: order staying recall election

Text: In opinions filed today in this matter the court unanimously upholds the validity of the procedures followed in proposing an election to recall appellant from his position as sheriff of Pierce County. A majority of the court, however (Rosellini, Wright, Brachtenbach, Dolliver, and Hicks, JJ.), found the constitutional rights of appellant would be irreparably harmed unless the date of the recall election is set after the conclusion of the trial presently under way in United States District Court in San Francisco, California, in which appellant here is a defendant. Therefore, it is ordered that the recall election may proceed but that the date set for the election, if it is necessary to hold it, shall be no earlier than 45 days from the conclusion of the trial in San Francisco. It is further directed that this order shall be appended to the report of this case in the Washington Reports. Dated this 30th day of March, 1979. ROBERT F. UTTER CHIEF JUSTICE