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Eugene N. Bolin, Jr. v. Keystone RV Company
Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 2, No. 59095-6-II, 59788-8-II · judgment October 14, 2025
(petition-stage, structural)
Well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Does a person’s 14th Amendment right to procedural due process include the right to see the evidence that a court uses against them if the opposing party who submitted that evidence claims it is secret under the attorney-client privilege? Different courts answer this constitutional question differently. Some federal Circuits hold that due process requires the person to see all that evidence. Other Circuits hold the person can see most of that evidence. And in this case, the Washington state courts held the person can see none of that evidence – limiting the person to a blacked-out version of the evidence upon which the court based its ruling. (Image of the blacked-out versions is in the body of this petition.) To end the all, most, none split in our nation’s courts, this Petition asks this Court to establish a uniform due process right for all Americans regardless of which Circuit or State they live in.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Thomas Fitzgerald Ahearne
Foster Garvey
For respondent
Douglas W. Purcell
Purcell Legal & Mediation Services, PLLC
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jul 22 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Jun 25 2026Waiver of right of respondent Aubrey Rinehart to respond filed.
- Jun 02 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 13, 2026)