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IN CLERKS OFFICE ~COURT,STATE OF WASHINGTON
DATE ''MAY ~9 2013
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

AMERJQUEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, a Delaware corporation,
Appellant,
v. OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF WASHINGTON, Respondent, LAW OFFICES OF MELISSA A.
HUELSMAN, Respondent/Intervenor.
No. 87661-4 En Bane Filed
MAY 09 2013
J.M. JOHNSON, J.-This is the second time we have considered this controversy over records Ameriquest Mortgage Company disclosed to the Washington State Office of the Attorney General (AGO). During its investigation of Ameriquest's lending practices, the AGO obtained a number
of e-mail messages from Ameriquest that Ameriquest employees had created while processing consumer loans. The AGO wants to disclose redacted versions of a subset of these e-mails to Melissa A. Huelsman, an attorney who has requested the records in accordance with the Public Records Act (PRA), chapter 42.56 RCW. Ameriquest claims that we decided in Ameriquest Mortgage Co. v. Washington State Office of Attorney General, 170 Wn.2d 418, 241 P.3d 1245 (2010), that the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (GLBA), 15 U.S.C.

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