Other LanguagesSEATTLE — The Attorney General’s Office Consumer Protection Division has filed a lawsuit against the operators of a Seattle venue who knowingly booked events, including many weddings, they knew they could not actually hold at the venue.
OLYMPIA — The owner of a local auto glass repair shop was in Snohomish County Superior Court yesterday to admit his guilt in filing false business tax returns and stealing thousands of dollars in sales tax.
Protects businesses from bad faith predatory claims of patent infringement; gives Attorney General’s Office legal enforcement authority
OLYMPIA — Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has proposed the Patent Troll Prevention Act to protect the rights of legitimate patent holders and crack down on deceptive and predatory patent troll practices.
“Patent trolls target and swamp small businesses with deceptive demand letters,” said Ferguson. “The Patent Troll Prevention Act will protect small businesses and provide my office with enforcement authority to hold fraudulent trolls accountable.”
KELSO — A Cowlitz County Superior Court judge today denied release to a sex offender after prosecutors from the Attorney General’s Sexually Violent Predator Unit (SVP) proved that he remains mentally ill and sexually dangerous.
SPOKANE — A Spokane man convicted last year of first-degree rape was sentenced today to at least 24 years, seven months in prison, and could remain in custody for life.
SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today commented on the release by a U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) contractor of an Implementation Plan for Hanford Tank Vapor Assessment Report Recommendations.
SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced the filing of an amicus curiae — or “friend of the court” — brief in support of the Obama Administration’s recent executive action on immigration policy. The brief was filed in Texas v. United States, a legal challenge by Texas and other states to the President’s legal authority. A preliminary hearing is set in that case for Thursday, January 15. The Washington State Attorney’s General Office authored the brief, which was joined by the Attorneys General of California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont and the District of Columbia.
OLYMPIA — Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has proposed bipartisan legislation that would prohibit businesses that have repeatedly or willfully violated the state’s wage payment laws during the past three years from doing business with Washington state.
OLYMPIA — Dealing with a heartbreaking Super Bowl loss is bad enough. But we’ve also heard reports of fans buying tickets from brokers, only to find out the brokers did not even have the tickets they purported to sell.
OLYMPIA -- Insurance giant Anthem announced on Feb. 5 that up to 80 million consumers nationwide may be affected by a data breach of current and former customers’ names, social security numbers, contact information and birthdates. It does not appear that any health information was obtained.