OLYMPIA, Wash. (Legal Newsline) - Jurors didn’t need to be instructed on the defense of “known and obvious” risks in the case of a worker who developed a deadly cancer decades after a three-month assignment removing asbestos from a Mobil refinery in 1979, the Washington Supreme Court ruled.
In 2021, an average of 41 people were detained daily for mental health crises in Washington. Authorities “totally disregarded” the law by holding some people in psychiatric hospitals too …
In 2021, an average of 41 people were detained daily for mental health crises in Washington. Authorities “totally disregarded” the law by holding some people in psychiatric hospitals too long,