Washington State Nurses Association v. MultiCare Health Systems

Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE WASHINGTON STATE NURSES CASE NO. C22-0321-LK ASSOCIATION, et al., ORDER GRANTING MOTION Plaintiffs, FOR RECONSIDERATION v. MULTICARE HEALTH SYSTEM, Defendant. This matter comes before the Court on a motion for reconsideration filed by MultiCare Health System. Dkt. No. 27. MultiCare seeks reconsideration of one aspect of the Court’s order granting the Unions’ motion to remand, Dkt. No. 26: it seeks to have the Court remove any suggestion that it has “abandoned” the issue of Garmon1 preemption because it may pursue that argument in another forum. Dkt. No. 27 at 2. MultiCare argues that the clarification “can be readily accomplished by revising one referenced sentence as follows: ‘Therefore, this Court does not consider MultiCare’s abandoned address a Garmon preemption argument which was not raised in

1 San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon, 359 U.S. 236, 245 (1959). the argument of this motion.’” Id. The Unions filed a response to the motion for reconsideration stating that they “take no position on MultiCare’s motion.” Dkt. No. 28 at 1. Because the Court did not intend to suggest that MultiCare has abandoned its Garmon argument in another forum, the Court GRANTS MultiCare’ motion for reconsideration, Dkt. No.

27, and issues an amended order that removes the “abandoned” reference from page 5 of that order. Dated this 2nd day of August, 2022. A Lauren King United States District Judge