Imagine someone walking down the street next to a newly constructed building. Suddenly, a defective cornice falls off the building, striking and killing the passerby. Tragedies are often quickly followed by finger-pointing.
If the incident had occurred a century ago and the victim’s next of kin had gone to court, the judge would have likely ruled that the death, happening after the work was done and approved, was caused by the building owner failing to inspect the condition of the cornice. For the contractor, it’s a different story. If it had performed shoddy work, it might have faced the owner’s wrath but not legal responsibility to third parties.
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Press release from the NEC:
CITIZENS for a SUSTAINABLE HUMBOLDT (CSH) and the NORTHCOAST ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER (NEC) have filed a lawsuit in the Humboldt County Superior Court, with claims under the California Environmental Quality Act, the State Planning and Zoning Law, and other laws, challenging the environmental review and permits approved by the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors.
The recent permitting of the Rolling Meadow Ranch project (“Project”), a large industrial Cannabis project near McCann, on the banks of the Main Stem Eel River, has been a great disappointment to the neighbors in McCann, local Fire Districts, and many others in the community.
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Next week will mark the fourth anniversary of the fatal stabbing of David Josiah Lawson, a 19-year-old Humboldt State University sophomore whose still unsolved killings left fissures throughout the local community.
Lawson died early in the morning of April 15, 2017, after he was stabbed multiple times including once to the heart amid a series of fights at an off-campus house party in Arcata. Kyle Zoellner, a then 23-year-old McKinleyville man, was arrested at the scene and charged with Lawson s murder but within weeks a Humboldt County Superior Court judge had dismissed the case against him, finding there was insufficient evidence to hold him for trial.