The Federalist Society has published an assessment of the Washington Supreme Court’s approach to state constitutional law, and to us the most interesting part is the first section on property rights in the Evergreen State.
Michael Bindas, David K. DeWolf & Michael J. Reitz, The Washington Supreme Court and the State Constitution: A 2010 Assessment (July 2010 ).
For the latest from the Washington Supreme Court on property rights, see Proctor v. Huntington, No. 82326-0 (Aug. 19, 2010), in which a 5-4 majority of the court solved an encroachment problem by ordering the encroached-upon landowner to sell his land to his encroaching neighbor. We asked “Why Isn’t This A ‘Judicial Taking?’“