"I don't think I can comment on that case. Technically I think it's still a pending case in the sense (that) the voters are the tribunal at this point...It's always nice to be affirmed, I can tell you that."

Benton County Superior Court Judge Craig Matheson, whose decision to allow the recall against Jim West to proceed was upheld by the state Supreme Court. Matheson, as an outside judge, was brought in to Spokane to hear the case.

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