Washington Supreme Court· 5/8/1997

Nelson v. McClatchy Newspapers

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936 P.2d 1123

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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.”

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Judges: Sanders

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