Superior Court Orders Local Cafe To Close After Multiple Face Mask Requirement Violations
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The City of Monterey s Aloha Coffee and Cafe and its owner have received a temporary restraining order to close shop after repeated COVID-19 safety violations, Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine Pacioni announced on Thursday.
The order requires the owner, Richard Dunnuck, to close the business until he obtains a valid food service permit as well as complies with the state s Regional Stay at Home Order and face covering orders.
Dunnuck lost his food service permit in early December after he, his employees and customers violated the face covering requirements on multiple occasions, Deputy District Attorney Emily Hickok said,
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The lucrative contract for the management of the county-owned Laguna Seca racetrack is the subject of a lawsuit filed on Dec. 14 in Monterey County Superior Court by a businessman whose bid was rejected.Â
The lawsuit from motor racing veteran Chris Pook says that the county of Monterey conducted a rushed and âshamâ selection process that âripped to shreds the principles of a fair process and promoted the concepts of favoritism, fraud and corruption.â Pook is demanding a yet unspecified amount in damages.Â
Reached for comment by email, Assistant County Administrative Officer Dewayne Woods, who oversees Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca and managed the selection process on behalf of the Board of Supervisors, rejected Pookâs allegations. âThe county believes the process was fair and appropriate,â Woods says.Â
Just a few weeks into the pandemic, a group of local defense attorneys began wondering how the Monterey County Superior Court system planned to keep people who had business with the court safe during the Covid-19 pandemic. By people who had business with the court, Iâm referring not only to defendants and victims or litigants, but clerks and bailiffs, attorneys, judges, witnesses and juries. On a busy day, the Salinas courthouse has hundreds and maybe even a thousand people moving in and out.
Jury trials resumed in June after the initial pandemic shutdown, and for any given trial, hundreds of jurors are often called so attorneys have a sufficient number of potentials from which to choose. On one day, about six weeks ago, the line of jurors waiting to be called into the Salinas courthouse extended from the doors down the government plaza walkway to the County Administration Building, and they were out there for hours.
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