TACOMA — ਸ਼ੁੱਕਰਵਾਰ ਨੂੰ, Pierce ਕਾਉਂਟੀ ਦੇ ਇੱਕ ਜੱਜ ਨੇ ਅੰਡਰਗਰਾਉਂਡ ਤੇਲ ਸਟੋਰੇਜ ਟੈਂਕਾਂ ਲਈ ਕੀਤੇ ਅਧੂਰੇ, ਬੇਲੋੜੇ ਜਾਂ ਘਟੀਆ ਕੰਮ ਵਾਸਤੇ ਗੈਸ ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ ਦੇ ਮਾਲਕਾਂ ਕੋਲੋਂ ਗੈਰ-ਕਾਨੂੰਨੀ ਤਰੀਕੇ ਨਾਲ ਭੁਗਤਾਨ ਲੈਣ ਲਈ ਇੱਕ ਸਥਾਨਕ ਕਾਰੋਬਾਰ ਦੇ ਮਾਲਕ ਨੂੰ $360,000 ਤੋਂ ਵੱਧ ਦਾ ਜੁਰਮਾਨਾ ਲਗਾਇਆ ਹੈ ਅਤੇ ਭੁਗਤਾਨ ਵਾਪਸ ਕਰਨ ਦਾ ਹੁਕਮ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਹੈ। ਇਹ ਹੁਕਮ ਅਟਾਰਨੀ ਜਨਰਲ Bob Ferguson ਦੇ ਵਿੰਗ ਲਿਊਕ ਸਿਵਲ ਰਾਈਟਸ ਡਿਵੀਜ਼ਨ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਦਾਇਰ ਕੀਤੇ ਗਏ ਖਪਤਕਾਰ ਸੁਰੱਖਿਆ ਮੁਕੱਦਮੇ ਦੇ ਨਤੀਜੇ ਵਜੋਂ ਜਾਰੀ ਹੋਇਆ ਹੈ।
TACOMA — 금요일, Pierce 카운티 판사는 지하 연료 저장 탱크에 대한 작업을 완료하지 않았거나, 불필요하거나 부실한 작업을 해놓고 주유소 소유주들에게 불법적으로 비용을 청구한 현지 사업주에게 36만 달러가 넘는 벌금과 배상금을 지불하라고 명령했습니다. 해당 명령은 법무장관 Bob Ferguson의 Wing Luke Civil Rights Division(민권담당과)이 제기한 소비자 보호 소송의 결과로 내려지게 되었습니다.
TACOMA — On Friday, a Pierce County judge ordered a local business owner to pay more than $360,000 in penalties and restitution for unlawfully charging gas station owners for unfinished, unnecessary, or shoddy work on underground fuel storage tanks. The order is the result of a consumer protection lawsuit filed by Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s Wing Luke Civil Rights Division.
TACOMA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a civil rights lawsuit today against a University Place apartment complex for illegal housing discrimination against applicants with disabilities.
OLYMPIA — The Washington State Supreme Court ruled today that Attorney General Bob Ferguson has broad authority to pursue legal action to protect the civil and constitutional rights of Washingtonians.
El Procurador General Bob Ferguson anunció hoy que Greenridge Farms y Baker Produce, con sede en Pasco, pagarán $470 000 para resolver su demanda de derechos civiles sobre múltiples acusaciones de agresión sexual y acoso sexual de trabajadoras agrícolas por parte de uno de los supervisores de las empresas. Ferguson también alega que las empresas tomaron represalias contra ellas cuando denunciaron los hechos.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that Pasco-based Greenridge Farms and Baker Produce will pay $470,000 to resolve his civil rights lawsuit over multiple allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment of female farmworkers by one of the companies’ supervisors. Ferguson also asserts the companies retaliated against them when they spoke out.
OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson released the following statement today after the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision in Food & Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a case challenging the FDA’s approval of the abortion medication mifepristone:
WENATCHEE — A jury found a veterans nonprofit and its founder and CEO, Thelbert “Thad” Lawson Jr., liable for pervasive and ongoing sexual harassment of 12 women. The jury ordered the defendants to pay nearly $1.5 million to the victims of the harassment as a result of Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s civil rights lawsuit.
OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that Allianz, the world’s largest insurance company, must pay $1.5 million for discriminating against 560 Washingtonians with mental or nervous health disorders.