Hearing on County of Humboldt's motion to dismiss Ray Christie's federal lawsuit delayed for two months

 

I wrote in my April 10, 2026 post, " "I have been the only one regularly reporting on rancher Ray Christie's federal lawsuit against County of Humboldt, former HCSO Deputy Travis Mendes, former Humboldt Deputy DA Adrian Kamada, Sheriff Honsal. I have had many exclusives regarding this lawsuit and reporting information first. "

That post has links to my coverage on the federal lawsuit. There was a hearing scheduled on 6/3/26 on the County of Humboldt's motion to dismiss. It was rescheduled on 5/22.

I just confirmed with Larson LLP partner, Mr. Rick Richmond, who represents Christie that U.S. District Court Judge Noel Wise "recently moved the hearing date on the County’s motion to dismiss the case from June 3 to August 5."

Mr. Richmond's associates on this case are Ms. Caroline Glennie-Smith who worked with him on Christie's 2018 criminal case. Ms. Donna Sotera Zamora-Stevens joined the team for the federal lawsuit.

Deputy County Counsel Joel Campbell-Blair and Destinee Valeska are both working on this lawsuit.

For all the claims by other local media of court coverage which recently seem to be more frequent but still random; the selective coverage continues. As usual, calling out the powers is MIA. They copy and follow up on several of my posts days, weeks and months later but crickets on Christie. The other local media had no problem splashing Ray's mugshot and using the 2018 raid as clickbait.

I was the first to report on his plea and again, the only one to do an update that his request to expunge the criminal conviction was granted.