In March, the Seattle City Attorney’s Office accused Seattle Municipal Court Judge Pooja Vaddadiof being biased in several of her rulings. In a memo from the CAO, they accused Vaddadi of “a ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington has filed a lawsuit against the Seattle City Attorney’s Office alleging that ...

At the center of the issue is Seattle Municipal Court Judge Pooja Vaddadi, a former public defender who began serving a four-year term on the bench in January 2023, and Seattle City Attorney Ann ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington has sued the Seattle City Attorney's Office over claims of "misuse of prosecutorial power" after they barred city judge Pooja Vaddadi from hearing ...

The ACLU said the mandate from the City Attorney's Office has relegated Judge Vaddadi to addressing traffic and parking citations, "a function typically performed by magistrate judicial officers ...

Former public defender Pooja Vaddadi started her four-year term on the Seattle ... “The people of Seattle elected Judge Vaddadi, and another elected official is undermining the democratic will of ...

SEATTLE - The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington has sued the Seattle City Attorney's Office over claims of "misuse of prosecutorial power" after they barred city judge Pooja Vaddadi ...

The case concerns a mandatory policy from the CAO that impacts Judge Pooja Vaddadi, a Seattle Municipal Court judge. In February, Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison directed all assistant city ...

A new lawsuit filed Monday in King County Superior Court by the ACLU of Washington challenged the Seattle City Attorney’s Office after they removed a certain judge from its criminal cases.