January 25, 2024
The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday said a group of homeowners are the legal owners of shoreline where they built boat docks and decks, rejecting a county government's argument that it controlled the lakeshore linked to a county recreational trail under a 19th-century federal railroad right-of-way law.
May 25, 2023
The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday weighed whether property owners can block public access to a lakeshore linked to a county recreational trail, with one justice suggesting the owners' argument is weakened by a century-old U.S. Supreme Court ruling that broadly interpreted federal government land patents.