Kristi L. Finch pleaded not guilty at the Island County Superior Court hearing to five counts of animal cruelty in the first degree and two counts of animal cruelty in the second degree. Judge Carolyn Cliff ordered Finch not to own, care for or possess any animals for the duration of the legal case.
Two judges recently made rulings in separate Public Records Act lawsuits against the city of Langley, one of which is seven years old and has gone to the state Court of Appeals and back.
A judge ordered an attorney representing a Freeland-based group to pay a $10,000 sanction for violating a civil court rule by claiming that an affordable housing organization was accountable for a man’s death.
Island County Superior Court Judge Carolyn Cliff will decide this month whether or not to grant a motion by the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) and LIHI Harbor Inn for reimbursement of attorney’s fees incurred in the recent legal fight over the sale of the Freeland motel.
Freeland Concerned Citizens LLC has ended its legal challenge over the purchase of Harbor Inn in order to provide transitional and supportive housing.
A group of residents voluntarily dismissed a lawsuit that challenged Island County’s award of $1.5 million to a nonprofit organization that plans to convert a Freeland motel into low-income housing.
An Island County superior court judge has denied a request for a preliminary injunction filed by the group, Freeland Concerned Citizens LLC, to stop the Harbor Inn motel in Freeland from being used for bridge and supportive housing.
A judge denied a motion related to a Freeland motel that is being transitioned into low-income housing, but the litigation is not over.
At a hearing Tuesday, Island County Superior Court Judge Carolyn Cliff declined to impose Freeland Concerned Citizens LLC’s request for a preliminary injunction, saying that preliminary injunctions an extraordinary and rare relief and that the LLC hasn’t shown a clear legal or equitable argument that it would likely prevail on the underlying lawsuit.
