Resolves first AG lawsuit against a company for its use of no-poach clauses

SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that restaurant chain Jersey Mike’s will pay $150,000 to resolve a lawsuit over its use of no-poach provisions. The company will not add provisions to new contracts and will remove provisions from all of its franchise contracts nationwide, benefiting thousands of workers across the country.

Washington co-leads challenge to new “public charge” rule to protect Washington families and children

City commits not to pay city administrator’s unlawful contract

YAKIMA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today, as a result of his lawsuit, the Wapato City Council and all Wapato city officers will undergo ethics and open government trainings and commit to not paying former City Administrator Juan Orozco’s unlawful contract, and to not employ Orozco in the future.

EPA’s new “Affordable Clean Energy” rule neither clean nor affordable, increased pollution will likely cause thousands more illnesses and deaths per year

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson, in a coalition of 22 states and seven local governments, today challenged the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan and replace it with the “Affordable Clean Energy” rule, which would not require significant carbon emission reductions.

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson released the following statement following the Trump Administration’s announcement of changes to the “public charge” rule that would allow immigration officials to deny new or continuing legal status to immigrants who use or may use public benefits to which he or she is entitled:

Federal judge has called Trump Administration’s defense “halfhearted”

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today asked an Alabama federal judge to allow him to join an ongoing lawsuit to ensure that the 2020 Census includes all residents in its count, seeking to bolster what the court has called the Trump Administration’s “halfhearted” defense of the constitutionally required count.

Ferguson’s initiative has benefited workers at 66 corporate chains

En la demanda se afirma que la ciudad desalojó ilegalmente a los inquilinos sin una orden judicial

Suit asserts that city unlawfully evicted tenants without court order

Eyman has been in contempt on previous issues since February 2018

OLYMPIA — A Thurston County Superior Court judge today found initiative promoter Tim Eyman in contempt a second time in Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s campaign finance lawsuit. Eyman and/or his company, Watchdog for Taxpayers, have been in contempt on separate discovery violations for 525 days, racking up sanctions of $211,750.