| B001 — Court amount |
If the action fits §3.66.020(1) and its base/cap, district monetary jurisdiction is available under that clause. |
Classification, aggregation, special grant/exclusion |
“Below $100,000 means every district action is permitted” |
Read the particular generic cause-of-action grant and its relationship to §§3.66.020–.030. C003–C005 |
| B002 — Superior wording |
Constitution and RCW contain different historical monetary formulations plus broader jurisdiction clauses. |
Full harmonizing construction |
Selecting a superior minimum from $300 or $3,000 |
Generic constitutional/statutory construction would require separately authorized judicial research. C002 |
| B003 — Small-claims claimant |
Natural-human plaintiff and other plaintiff have different caps; assignees face a bar and transfer exception. |
Correct statutory category and transfer-rule mechanism |
“All debts under $10,000 qualify” |
Authenticate the generic court rule implementing §12.40.025 transfer without examining a case. C006–C008 |
| B004 — Venue layers |
State venue and §1692i can both constrain a covered consumer collection action. |
Federal coverage; Washington unit meant by “judicial district or similar legal entity” |
Treating county, court district, residence, and personal jurisdiction as synonyms |
Generic statutory/rule inquiry first; judicial construction remains held. C010–C016 |
| B005 — Government defendant |
RCW 4.92.010 creates a distinct state-claim branch. |
Presentment, service recipient, immunity, special cause |
Ordinary individual service completes government procedure |
Read generic applicable government-claim statutes in a separate authorized branch. C017 |
| B006 — Service-first commencement |
CR 3(a) is qualified by debt-collection language. |
Scope of CR 3(e) and state collection-agency definition in a disputed classification |
Unfiled debt summons is always authorized |
Read any later amendment/formal generic rule explanation of CR 3(e); construction held. C018–C020 |
| B007 — Abode substitute |
Delivery works only if usual-abode and resident/suitability predicates exist. |
Legal meaning and factual predicates |
Any relative, coworker, or listed address suffices |
Generic construction would require judicial authority, expressly not researched. C025 |
| B008 — Mailing-address substitute |
Delivery plus subsequent mail is conditional on reasonable diligence and statutory address/recipient status. |
Diligence, statutory address, completion predicate |
Mailing alone or a workplace/post-office box satisfies (15) |
Further generic interpretation of §4.28.080(15); no service reconstruction. C026 |
| B009 — Entity sequence |
Later §23.95.450 routes depend on inability to use earlier ones. |
Entity classification; principal-office statutory source; SOS implementation |
Any agent, office, email, or registry label works |
Read public SOS service instructions and any operative implementing rule; no entity lookup. C028–C029 |
| B010 — Repealed incorporation |
RCW 4.28.090 was repealed; rule citation persists. |
Formal rule correction or authoritative generic reconciliation |
Stale citation preserves repealed text |
Monitor/read adopted CR/CRLJ 4 amendment, not a guessed replacement. C030 |
| B011 — Publication |
Publication requires statutory grounds and preliminary affidavit/mailing predicates. |
Applicable enumerated ground; constitutional adequacy; qualifying publication |
“Could not contact” automatically permits publication |
Read only the indispensable generic incorporated ground; constitutional construction held. C031–C033 |
| B012 — CRLJ territorial text |
CRLJ 4(e) and 4(h) address different mechanisms. |
Which route is invoked and how overlap is construed |
Every out-of-county service gets the 30-day property-only branch |
Formal generic amendment/interpretation or separately authorized judicial construction. C033–C035 |
| B013 — Small-claims interstate |
§3.66.100 excludes ordinary small claims from §4.28.180. |
Any separately authorized nonexcluded interstate mechanism |
Certified mail necessarily creates interstate personal jurisdiction |
Read generic legislative/rule authority for that precise route; current answer holds it. C037 |
| B014 — Small-claims server |
Title 12 and AOC wording differ. |
Exact-age/citizenship applicability and procedural supersession |
Registration at 18 proves authority to serve small claims |
Generic official clarification or construction of §§12.04.050/.080 and CRLJ 81. C038 |
| B015 — Small-claims timing |
.040 says ten calendar days; .060 retains five-day language. |
Counting/interaction at unusual boundaries |
Five-day notice alone satisfies current law |
Read any formal amendment or generic rule addressing the overlap; do not calculate a hearing date. C057 |
| B016 — Foreign country |
CR 4(i) recognizes alternatives subject to treaty/law/notice conditions. |
Applicable treaty, foreign law, competent authority |
Domestic mail/email rule universally works abroad |
Generic treaty and implementing-law research only if that branch is separately commissioned. C040 |
| B017 — Appearance |
Formal appearance preserves notice rights and does not itself answer. |
Informal/conduct-based appearance construction |
Every contact is an appearance, or appearance permanently preserves all defenses |
Judicial construction remains outside this pass. C041/C046/C059 |
| B018 — Detention response |
Superior CR 12 has the 2025 clause; CRLJ 12 does not mirror it. |
Other applicable district statute/rule |
Copying the superior 60-day clause into all district actions |
Search/read later adopted CRLJ amendment or indispensable generic statute. C043–C044 |
| B019 — Electronic transmission |
Later-paper service and accepted filing have distinct rules. |
Agreement/local rule; acceptance; business hours; failed transmission |
Sending email/uploading equals service and filing |
Read generic applicable local filing/service rule in a later local-law pass. C050–C053 |
| B020 — Default stage |
Entry of default, judgment, and relief each have separate predicates. |
Appearance, proof, demand, capacity, military status, evidence |
Expired response time conclusively establishes damages or judgment |
No factual inquiry authorized; generic rule framework is established. C058–C069 |
| B021 — CRLJ default-mail citation |
CRLJ 55(b)(3) cites 4(d)(4), while mail is in 4(f). |
Corrective amendment/authoritative reconciliation |
Silently treating a nonexistent subdivision as operative |
Read future adopted corrective order or formal generic explanation. C062 |
| B022 — Vacatur interaction |
CR 60 retains chapter 4.72 only as modified. |
Ground-specific interpretation, especially voidness/fraud/defense requirement |
One-year period applies to every ground; every omission is voidness |
Separately authorized judicial construction; no actual relief decision. C067–C071 |
| B023 — Debt-buyer date |
2020 purchase-date and 2027 commencement-date clauses use different events. |
Correct version and event classification |
Sale date resets litigation periods or future law applies now |
Read only additional generic transition/application text; limitation/revival merits remain P3. C083–C087 |
| B024 — Debt evidence |
Documents must satisfy the statutory/rule evidence route. |
Qualified witness, record-making predicates, chain, amount support |
Attached spreadsheet/contract/affidavit automatically proves debt |
Generic evidence incorporation inquiry; actual records remain prohibited. C076–C085 |
| B025 — Federal military incorporation |
Current §3911/§3931/§3932 bodies were read; current §3917 body route failed. A dated governmental compilation contains §3917. |
Current official §3917 body; original relevant amendment/application text; unused dependent incorporation |
Title/snippet or 2025 compilation is fully current official statutory proof |
Retrieve an ordinary official current U.S. Code/Statutes at Large route for §3917; preserve its exact scope. C088/C098/C100 |
| B026 — State military wording |
Expanded 2026 definition coexists with older dependent-notice template. |
Domestic-partnership incorporation and template reconciliation |
Template narrows all current protection or establishes actual nonmilitary status |
Read §38.42.904 and any operative corrective amendment/formal interpretation. C093–C098 |
| B027 — Holidays/closures |
General holiday and closure rules exist. |
Actual local emergency order/business hours; special-period interaction |
Every recognized day is a holiday; universal mailbox or rollover rule |
Later generic local/emergency-rule pass; no calendar calculation. C052–C055/C102 |
| B028 — Currentness |
Each compilation states its own currency. |
Later federal enactments through access date; uninspected original publication issues |
Access date proves enactment-complete currency |
Read ordinary official classification/public-law updates for the precise gap; no blanket failure inference. C100 |
| B029 — Specialized recipients |
§4.28.080 contains government, insurer, transport, and other special recipients. |
Their incorporated operative provisions |
Ordinary entity clause overrides all specialized statutes |
Separate sector/government public-law investigation; remain excluded here. C017/C027–C030 |
| B030 — Rule proposal |
October 2026 CR 8 document is a proposal. |
Later adoption, effective clause, final wording |
PDF title means current law changed |
Read any later adopted order and effective text. C099 |