Brown v. King County

Opinion

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4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 5 AT SEATTLE 6 CLAUDE BROWN, 7 Plaintiff, C16-1340 TSZ 8 v. MINUTE ORDER 9 KING COUNTY, 10 Defendant.

11 The following Minute Order is made by direction of the Court, the Honorable Thomas S. Zilly, United States District Judge: 12 (1) On March 19, 2021, the Court entered General Order 04-21, continuing 13 nearly all civil and criminal in-person trials scheduled to occur before June 30, 2021. The parties are therefore ORDERED to show cause why this Court should not require 14 that this six-day jury trial, which is scheduled to begin on June 14, 2021, be conducted virtually over any party’s objection. See Joint Status Report at ¶ 4 (docket no. 78); see 15 also Le v. King County, No. C18-55-TSZ, 2021 WL 859493, at *6 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 8, 2021) (holding that “‘good cause in compelling circumstances’ justify conducting [that] 16 trial via a videoconferencing platform, that ‘appropriate safeguards’ for doing so are in place, and that a continuance of the trial date is unnecessary and would be prejudicial to 17 [the opposing party]”). The parties shall file their show-cause response, not to exceed four (4) pages in length, on or before Friday, April 16, 2021. 18 (2) The Clerk is directed to send a copy of this Minute Order to all counsel of 19 record. 20 Dated this 6th day of April, 2021. 21 William M. McCool 22 Clerk