State right to jury trial at issue

OLYMPIA — The office of Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson prevailed in Maziar v. Department of Corrections, a ruling issued today by the Washington Supreme Court. The unanimous decision found, for the first time, that the state has the right to demand a jury trial.

Corrections employee Scott Maziar was injured on a ferry ride to the McNeil Island Corrections Center. He sued the Department of Corrections and other defendants for damages arising out of the incident.

Background checks similar to Washington’s I-594 at issue

UPDATE: Coverage from The Seattle Times on the new law's implementation.

OLYMPIA — Today, Governor Jay Inslee signed Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s proposal to ban “ticket bot” software into law. 

WA Officials Team Up to Warn Consumers on Donating Wisely

OLYMPIA — As the death toll climbs in Nepal following the massive earthquake over the weekend, Better Business Bureau along with Secretary of State Kim Wyman and Attorney General Bob Ferguson are urging Washingtonians to be on guard for charity scams targeting donors.

OLYMPIA — Today, Governor Jay Inslee signed Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s proposal to protect small businesses from predatory and bad-faith patent infringement claims into law.

Patent trolls obtain and misuse patents as a way to make money by asserting patent rights and collecting infringement fees from other businesses. Their aggressive and deceptive tactics have become a growing concern for the Attorney General’s Office.

OLYMPIA — Governor Jay Inslee today signed into law Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s request to renew and expand the state’s only cross-jurisdictional task forces that combat identity theft in Washington.

OLYMPIA — Today, Governor Jay Inslee signed into law Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s bill strengthening the state’s data breach notification law.

SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that an Auburn man was arrested at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport this afternoon on charges he criminally mistreated a man in his care at his adult family home. The victim has been hospitalized since Jan. 6.

The Attorney General’s Office Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has charged Alfredo Tia with second-degree criminal mistreatment in King County Superior Court.

Today, State Auditor Troy Kelley was indicted by a federal grand jury on numerous criminal charges.

In his public statement released in the wake of his indictment, Auditor Kelley spoke of the distraction his continued service will cause his agency.  I agree.

I am cognizant that the charges contained in an indictment are only allegations.  A person is presumed innocent unless or until he or she is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

This, however, is a matter of public confidence in the institutions and leaders of state government.

SHELTON — A Mason County judge today sentenced a Tahuya man who tried to fill and alter the course of the Tahuya River to 30 days in jail on each count, to be served concurrently, $8,143 in fines, two years of probation and an order to follow civil and criminal environmental laws.