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Jury Instructions On Joint And Several Liability In Washington State, Julie K. Weaver
Jury Instructions On Joint And Several Liability In Washington State, Julie K. Weaver
Washington Law Review
Neither the Washington Legislature nor the Washington Supreme Court has addressed the issue of instructing a jury on Washington's doctrine of modified joint and several liability and its effects. Historically, most states prevented courts from instructing juries on the effects of their answers to special verdicts. Washington, however, has no history of keeping a jury uninformed of the effects of its answers. This Comment concludes that Washington courts should continue the practice of informing juries of the effects of their answers and instruct juries on joint and several liability and its effects.
Equity Renewed: Preliminary Injunctions To Secure Potential Money Judgments, Rhonda Wasserman
Equity Renewed: Preliminary Injunctions To Secure Potential Money Judgments, Rhonda Wasserman
Washington Law Review
Whenever a plaintiff sues a defendant for money damages, she runs the risk that the defendant will attempt to render herself unable to satisfy the expected money judgment by hiding or dissipating assets. Although most states have statutes that authorize prejudgment attachment of the defendant's assets to prevent this result, the attachment statutes are poorly designed to reduce the plaintiff's risk. The attachment statutes are both under- and over-inclusive: they do not authorize the attachment of property located outside the state, thereby failing to prevent the dissipation of all of the defendant's property, yet they grant the plaintiff a lien …