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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) Two farm groups are suing the state of Washington for failing to revise emergency regulations that seek to protect migrant farm workers from the COVID-19 virus.
The groups filed the lawsuit Tuesday 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.
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Farmers sue state over COVID-19 rules for migrant workers
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOSFebruary 2, 2021 GMT
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) 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 Tuesday 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.
Eastern Washington farmers sue state over COVID-19 rules they say fails to protect migrant workers
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YAKIMA, Wash. - 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 Tuesday 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.
Yakima Police Arrest 18-year-Old For Shooting Stepfather
Yakima Police are investigating the cities latest homicide. Officers were called to the 900 block of South 29th Avenue at about 10:42 p.m. Wednesday after getting reports of a victim in the area who had been shot. Authorities say they received a 911 call from an 18-year-old man, Jonathan Hildago who told them he had killed his stepfather. When officers arrived at the home they found a 45-year-old man dead in the home s living room. Police say he had been shot once in the head.
Detectives from the Yakima Police Department s Criminal Investigation Division say the 18-year-old Hildago thought his stepfather was molesting a young child in the home before the shooting. But police say an investigation into the allegations found no evidence that the child was being molested.