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Segura v. Cabrera, 184 Wash. 2d 587 (2015)

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Segura v. Cabrera, 184 Wash. 2d 587 (2015)
Parent Document
Segura v. Cabrera, 184 Wash. 2d 587 (2015)
Jurisdiction
Washington (state)
Effective Date
2015-10-29

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*602¶34 Since 1976, we have consistently stated that this is the established meaning of “actual damages.” Rasor, 87 Wn.2d at 530 n.3. We presume that the legislature knew the controlling law in the area in which it was legislating when it passed RCW 59.18.085 in 2005. Wynn v. Earin, 163 Wn.2d 361, 371, 181 P.3d 806 (2008) (citing Price v. Kitsap Transit, 125 Wn.2d 456, 463, 886 P.2d 556 (1994)).6 Although the majority dismisses these cases as “involving] different statutes with different language and different purposes,” majority at 595, nothing in Rasor or Martini suggests that their discussions of “actual damages” were limited to the statutes at issue in those cases.7