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Submitted by The Fire Inside on Fri, 02/17/2006 - 7:22am.
If Washington state isn't liable for these children (when government is their "parent"), how can any parent be held fiscally liable for their children's actions?
» If we replace Washington state with John and Jane Doe, they would probably lose everything they had. A near-unanimous state Supreme Court has swept aside an $8.3 million civil judgment against the state for the vicious beating in 1999 of a Somali refugee by a group of teenagers living in a West Seattle foster home.
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