When Measure A’s proponents collected signatures for their petition to place it on the ballot, they failed to disclose the initiative’s impacts, according to Nicholas Sanders, the attorney representing several cannabis cultivators and the Humboldt County Growers Alliance trade group. However, Measure A’s proponents did not have to outline every possible implication of the initiative and provided fully accurate information to their signatories, said Kevin Bundy, the attorney representing Measure A’s creators Mark Thurmond and Elizabeth Watson.
Jasen Coley entered a dual plea of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity over the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Kenneth “Michael” Davis on July 3.
The parties reached a settlement in late August last year, where the state controller’s office – which sued the county and Paz Dominguez over allegedly not filing both the county’s adopted budget for 2020-21 and 2021-22 and their financial transaction reports for fiscal years 2019-20 and 2020-21 – agreed to drop the lawsuit in exchange for $12,000 in forfeitures and reports detailing progress on filing delinquent reports.
A judge overruled Caltrans’ attempt to toss a lawsuit last month about their environmental analysis of a highway realignment project through Richardson Grove.