County of Skamania v. State

How courts have described this case

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• concluding legislation modifying contracts for the sale of timber from trust lands violated State's fiduciary duties to trust beneficiaries
• when managing and administering the trust lands, the state must comply with the same fiduciary obligations as apply to a private trustee
• when managing and administering the trust lands, the state must comply with the same fiduciary obligations as apply to a private trustee
• unilateral termination of timber contracts violated DNR’s fiduciary duty to obtain full market value for trust assets according to explicit terms of Enabling Act
• “Every court that has considered the issue has concluded that these are real, enforceable trusts that impose upon the state the same fiduciary duties applicable to private trustees.”
• the state as trustee may not use trust assets to pursue other state goals

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).