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Article: Mayors Object to Rotating District Court -- Letter contends proposed assignments would change duties of Judge George Colby
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
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- July 20, 1999
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There is again discord over District Court in Yakima County.
This time, the issue is the assignment of cases to the four
judges on a rotating basis, which means that Judge George Colby of
Toppenish won't always hear Lower Valley cases. He would be assigned
cases from south of Union Gap only four months out of the year under
a plan prepared by presiding Judge Rod Fitch.
Yakima Valley mayors, in a letter released Friday, contend the
system amounts to a change in Colby's duties without amending the
plan that outlines how District Court will operate in Yakima County.
Fitch disagreed with that assessment Monday, saying the other
judges have rotated cases among themselves for years.
The mayors ...