BALLARD SQUARE CONDOMINIUM v. Dynasty Construction Co.

How courts have described this case

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• considering a former Washington statute that said, “[f]or purposes of this section, ‘claim’ does not include a contingent liability or a claim based on an event occurring after the effective date of dissolution” for requirement that claimant follow statutory scheme
• “[A] court may not construe a statute in a way that renders statutory language meaningless or superfluous.”
• “a cause of action that exists only by virtue of a statute is not a vested right, and it can be retroactively abolished by the legislature”
• “a cause of action that exists only by virtue of a statute is not a vested right, and it can be retroactively abolished by the legislature”
• the legislature can abolish a statutory cause of action even if a plaintiff’s lawsuit is pending, but it cannot do so after a trial court enters final judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).