Judge John Erlick, chief civil judge at King County Superior Court, assigned Judge Harry McCarthy to the City of Seattle’s lawsuit against the Sonics ownership group over the KeyArena lease agreement on Friday.

Louis Richmond, a spokesperson for the ownership group, said the Sonics had no comment at this time on McCarthy's assignment to preside over the case.
The Sonics filed a motion to change the judge presiding over the case earlier this week. Judge Glenna Hall, originally selected to hear the case, signed the order for her removal on Wednesday.

UPDATE
City of Seattle attorney's office spokesperson Ruth Bowman had this to say about Judge McCarthy being assigned to the case.

“We have no problem with Judge McCarthy. We didn’t even have a problem with the previous judge. And we are confident that we will get a fair and impartial judge from the King County bench. We believe that they have a fine bench.”