From a $35 million jury verdict to a federal court ordering a deported DACA recipient’s return, it was a packed week of news across the Sacramento region.
Here’s a rundown in case you missed them:
Sacramento Republic FC announced plans for a 20,000-seat stadium in the Railyards, nearly doubling its original 12,000-seat plan. Construction costs are now estimated at $350 million, with completion expected for the 2028 season.A federal court ordered the government to return Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez, a DACA recipient and Sacramento mother deported within 24 hours of arriving at her green card appointment. The judge called the removal a “flagrant violation” of her due process rights.Jurors awarded $35 million — including $20 million in punitive damages — to a woman raped by a nurse on three consecutive nights while unable to move or speak in Dignity Health Methodist Hospital’s ICU in 2016.Twin Rivers Unified teachers ended a 12-day strike after reaching a tentative agreement that includes 7% raises and fully funded Kaiser Permanente health benefits.A homeless woman is suing Sacramento for $12,239.43 in small claims court after city workers destroyed her tent, laptop and medications in two separate sweeps — items she documented with meticulous receipts.Sacramento’s 211 line, where the city and county direct homeless people for help, has no emergency shelter services to offer most callers. In January, only 11% of shelter requests could be met, and the city paused new family motel enrollments on March 1.Prominent Jesuit High School alumni — including developers Angelo and Kyriakos Tsakopoulos — issued an open letter pressuring the school to reverse its decision to go co-ed in fall 2027. School leaders called the decision nonnegotiable.Sacramento may soon allow “cottages on wheels” — 150- to 400-square-foot tiny homes on trailers connected to city utilities — on land zoned for single-unit and duplex dwellings. City officials hope to approve an ordinance by year’s end.
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