Wash. Supreme Court published opinion — 897239.pdf

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individuals, businesses, neighborhood associations, immigrant groups, civil rights

groups, faith organizations, and labor organizations. In June 2013, the Committee

circulated a petition to city of SeaTac voters that proposed a set of minimum

employment standards for certain hospitality and transportation employers in the city

of SeaTac, including an hourly minimum wage of $15. After finding sufficient

signatures supporting the petition, the SeaTac City Council put the initiative on the

ballot.

Filo Foods LLC, BF Foods LLC, Alaska Airlines Inc., and the Washington

Restaurant Association (collectively Filo Foods) sued the city of SeaTac and City

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Clerk Kristina Gregg (collectively the City) to challenge the sufficiency of the

signatures to put Proposition 1 on the ballot. The Committee intervened in support of

the City. Thereafter, the superior court held that Proposition 1 could not go on the

ballot, but the Court of Appeals reversed, Fila Foods, LLC v. City of SeaTac, 179 Wn.

App. 401,319 P.3d 817, review denied, 181 Wn.2d 1006,332 P.3d 984 (2014), 1 and

the measure appeared on the November 5, 20 13, ballot. Voters approved Proposition

1 by a narrow margin. By its terms, it was scheduled to take effect on January 1,

2015.

Shortly after the election, the superior court allowed Filo Foods to amend its

complaint to include substantive challenges to Proposition 1, now an enacted

ordinance, and to name the Port of Seattle as a defendant. The Port of Seattle is a

special-purpose municipal corporation that, among other things, owns and operates

the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport within the city of SeaTac's territorial