Years after committing what a federal judge called an “egregious injustice,” the city of Greeley has agreed to pay one-time Greeley resident Linda Robbins $150,000 for the loss of her dogs after a traffic stop five years ago.

The Greeley City Council on Tuesday voted to approve the settlement.

In a court case filed in 2015, Robbins laid out her case:

Greeley police wrongfully stopped her car.

She was wrongfully charged in relation to 15 Lhasa apso dogs she owned.

The city took the dogs, then transferred them to the Humane Society of Weld County.

When Robbins couldn’t pay $11,250 at first, then $45,000 later, the Humane Society took full custody of the dogs.

Some were euthanized. The others were adopted.

U.S. Senior District Judge Richard Matsch said the city’s actions amounted to constitutional rights violations.

“It is so egregious an injustice as to shock the conscience of this court,” Matsch said in his summary judgment on the constitutionality of the issues at stake in the case. He issued the judgment in February 2016. Later, he ruled Robbins was entitled to damages and ordered the two sides to work out a settlement. The two sides had been working ever since.

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