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Appeals court ruling on Highway 99 tunnel liability

On June 20, 2022 By Kevin Schofield In Legal, Transportation

Last week a state appeals court handed down a ruling in its review of a jury verdict that sided with the Washington State Department of Transportation in a dispute related to the breakdown of the tunnel boring machine that was digging the Highway 99 tunnel under Seattle. WSDOT had claimed …

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SPD officers’ and Seattle’s request to block video livestream at Charleena Lyles inquest

On June 14, 2022 By Kevin Schofield In Legal, Public Safety

As reported by Axios Seattle this morning, the two police officers involved in the shooting of Charleena Lyles in her apartment have requested that the Administrator of the inquest prohibit live-streaming video of the inquest as well as the media taking an publishing photographs of their faces during the inquest …

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Washington Supreme Court ruling: State vs. Sum

On June 9, 2022 By Kevin Schofield In Legal, Public Safety

This morning the Washington State Supreme Court handed down a ruling that rewrites the rules for “Terry stops,” when a police officer interrogates a person without a warrant. At issue is the point at which an individual being interrogated by an officer becomes “seized,” i.e. they believe that they are …

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CDC mask mandate appeal

On June 2, 2022 By Kevin Schofield In COVID, Federal government, Legal, Public health

In April, a U.S. District Court judge in Florida struck down the Center for Disease Control’s mask mandate. Earlier this week, the U.S. government filed a brief with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to try to overturn the lower court’s ruling. I hope you found this article valuable. If …

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Seattle City Attorney Criminal Division Quarterly Report

On May 26, 2022 By Kevin Schofield In Legal, Public Safety

The criminal division of the Seattle City Attorney’s Office has published its first quarterly report on the activities in the first three months of 2022. It contains an unprecedented amount of detail, in charts and graphs, on the case referrals from SPD and the ones that were declined, further broken …

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Appeals court ruling on railroad tracks in the Burke-Gilman Trail “missing link”

On May 16, 2022 By Kevin Schofield In Legal, Transportation

This morning the state Court of Appeals ruled that the City of Seattle does not have the right to require the Ballard Terminal Railroad Company (BTRC) to relocate railroad tracks that cross where the city intends to build out the “missing link” of the Burke-Gilman Trail. The court ruled that …

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Leaked Seattle City Attorney’s Office memos to Human Rights Commission

On May 13, 2022 By Kevin Schofield In Legal, Public Safety

As first reported by the South Seattle Emerald, last month the Seattle City Attorney’s Office sent a memo to the Seattle Human Rights Commission advising that it does not have legal standing or authority to petition the U.S. District Court to seek amicus curiae standing with regard to the 2012 …

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Order denying class certification for property and business owners impacted by CHOP

On May 9, 2022 By Kevin Schofield In Legal, Public Safety

This afternoon U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Zilly issued an order denying class certification for a lawsuit related to the potentially thousands of property and business owners who were impacted by the CHOP in June 2020. A group of business and property owners had filed a lawsuit against the City …

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The draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe vs. Wade

On May 3, 2022 By Kevin Schofield In Legal, Public health

Last night Politico released a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, that would overturn the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision declaring abortion before viability of the fetus to be a legal right. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has admitted that the draft is …

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Washington Supreme Court tosses City of Edmonds firearm storage ordinance

On April 21, 2022 By Kevin Schofield In Legal, Legislation

This morning the Washington State Supreme Court ruled that an ordinance passed by the City of Edmonds requiring secure storage of firearms and assigning liability for unauthorized access to unsecured firearms was pre-empted by state law.

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