Selah pays $45K to settle lawsuit over open meetings
Selah will settle two lawsuits alleging the city violated open-government laws in connection with a chalk-art controversy By Associated Press
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SELAH Selah will settle two lawsuits alleging the city violated open-government laws in connection with a chalk-art controversy.
Council members unanimously voted this week to approve the settlement, in which the city pays Trent Wilkinson $45,000 and hands over an unredacted copy of an email he had requested, The Yakima Herald-Republic reported. In return Wilkinson will drop the lawsuits with prejudice, meaning that the cases cannot be filed again.
City Attorney Rob Case said under the settlement, the city does not admit to any wrongdoing or liability and that it’s the best outcome the city could achieve.
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Washington Farmers Suing Over Virus Rules for Migrant Workers February 4, 2021
Two farm groups are suing the state of Washington for failing to revise emergency regulations that seek to protect migrant farmworkers from the COVID-19 virus.
The groups filed the lawsuit this week in Yakima County Superior Court. It seeks to invalidate the recently renewed rules as arbitrary, capricious and not feasible.
“We’re disappointed we had to take this step, but our farms are on the line and we had no other choice,” said John Stuhlmiller, chief executive officer of the Washington Farm Bureau.
The state Department of Health renewed the emergency rules, first adopted last spring, for the third time on Jan. 8. In addition, Gov. Jay Inslee last month rejected the two groups’ request to repeal and revise the rules.
SPOKANE Two farm groups are suing the state of Washington for failing to revise emergency regulations that seek to protect migrant farmworkers from the COVID-19 virus.