Seattle agrees to pay $10,000 settlement in lawsuit over Cal Anderson homeless sweep
Seattle agrees to pay $10,000 settlement in lawsuit over Cal Anderson homeless sweep February 18, 2021 at 3:55 pm A sweep of the homeless encampment at Cal Anderson Park on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. (Jason Rantz/KTTH) The City of Seattle has agreed to pay a $10,000 settlement to a woman who had filed a lawsuit over a December sweep of a homeless encampment in Cal Anderson Park. The lawsuit, filed in federal court by Ada Yeager, had initially asked U.S. District Judge Richard Jones to file a preliminary injunction to halt the sweep. Jones denied that request, but the litigatio...