Nelson v. McClatchy Newspapers

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• newspaper exempt from police power prohibition against unlawful discrimination in employment under First Amendment freedom of press
• newspaper exempt from police power prohibition against unlawful discrimination in employment under First Amendment freedom of press
• Because “a newspaper cannot be required to publish a particular reporter’s work,” it cannot “be 116 constitutionally required to employ the individual as a reporter.”
• legislators’ statements about a bill several years after its passage “should not be viewed as a reflection of legislative intent” (citing State v. Leek, 26 Wn. App. 651, 657-58, 614 P.2d 209 (1980))
• failure to conduct a Gunwall 8 analysis or show why the state constitutional provision should be interpreted differently than the federal results in court interpreting the state constitutional clause coextensively with its parallel federal counterpart
• A newspaper “cannot be required to publish a particular reporter’s work.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).