Lane v. City of Seattle

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• challenging the City of Seattle’s imposition of a tax on fire hydrants on Seattle Public Utilities that Seattle Public Utilities then collected by raising rates on water ratepayers
• “Hydrants, like streetlights, are a government expense for which a government must pay.”
• segregation into a dedicated account indicates a regulatory fee

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).