Opinion
No. 93562-9
01-04-2017
ORDER
¶1 Department II of the Court, composed of Chief Justice Madsen and Justices Owens, Stephens, González and Yu, considered at its January 3, 2017, Motion Calendar whether review should be granted pursuant to RAP 13.4(b) and unanimously agreed that the following order be entered.
¶2 IT IS ORDERED:
¶3 That the Petition for Review is granted only as to the issue of whether emails exchanged between county prosecuting attorneys and Department of Ecology employees relating to the Chem-Safe NOVA litigation are exempt from public records production as attorney work product under the "common interest doctrine." Any party may serve and file a supplemental brief within 30 days of the date of this order, see RAP 13.7(d).
For the Court
/s/ Madsen, C.J.
CHIEF JUSTICE