Posted on 02/15/2023 7:22:47 PM PST by Robwin
The City of Seattle has reached a tentative settlement agreement with the group of business owners that sued the city over damages done during CHOP in 2020, according to court documents.
The plaintiffs in the case — business and property owners within the 16-block portion of Capitol Hill’s CHAZ/CHOP — alleged that the city “actively endorsed, enabled, and encouraged the occupation,” according to a U.S. District Court judge’s orders. According to court documents, the group is seeking $2.9 million. The judge denied the group’s class action certification last May.
In his first order, U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly wrote there is evidence of “gross negligence” by the city and significant evidence that the destruction of CHOP evidence was intentional while city officials attempted to hide the deleting of texts for months in the face of opposing lawsuits.
Now a tentative settlement for an undisclosed amount of money has been reached between the city and these businesses for the damages incurred during the protests.
(Excerpt) Read more at mynorthwest.com ...
This should have been done for numerous merchants and business owners as well as homeowners in Libby, Montana who the EPA on its headline grabbing asbestos crusade destroyed utterly the value of their property and businesses and offered through the state trivial compensation.
Literally seized territory and declared their own nation but the Jan 6th Picnic is the only ‘insurrection’ in history.
>>Literally seized territory and declared their own nation but the Jan 6th Picnic is the only ‘insurrection’ in history.
They were just armed “celebrants of a new summer of love”.. hardly comparable to the dangerous extremists that paraded through the capital building and took selfies.
How in Hades can you have a public entity enter into an undisclosed settlement!?
That goes against everything holy about transparency of government. There’s no way that should be allowed to stand.
At last, a modicum of justice results from the anarchy.
At the taxpayers expense again. This rap will continue until we find a way to make government officials personally liable for their failures and misdeeds.
They need to take whatever cash they get and move the hell out.
Good point
Justice would be every one of the officials who allowed this to be strung up from lamp posts.
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Spoliation: If one side destroys evidence under subpoena then the other side is allowed to assume that the evidence was detrimental to the case of the side doing the destruction.
Any settlement money should be paid out of the city employees and police pension funds.
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