A jury has found a veterans nonprofit and its founder and CEO, Thelbert “Thad” Lawson Jr., liable for ongoing sexual harassment of 12 women. The jury ordered the defendants to pay nearly $1.5 million to the victims following Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s civil rights lawsuit.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that 24,492 claims checks will be sent to Washington residents in the coming week as a result of his antitrust lawsuits against chicken and tuna producers. These checks amount to an additional $2.59 million for eligible households throughout the state.
The Attorney General’s Office announced today that it filed felony charges against Trevor Lunney of Clarkston in Asotin County Superior Court for intimidation of a judge and four counts of harassment against local officials. If convicted, Lunney faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and a $20,000 fine for the charge of intimidation of a judge. He faces five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for each of the felony harassment counts.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced a collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice and a bipartisan group of 29 other attorneys general in an antitrust lawsuit aimed at dismantling Live Nation and Ticketmaster’s monopoly over the live entertainment industry. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, claims that the companies have used their dominance to stifle competition and inflate ticket prices.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by former basketball player John Stockton, two doctors accused of spreading COVID-19 misinformation, and an organization founded by presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The lawsuit aimed to halt the Washington Medical Commission's enforcement of its unprofessional conduct regulations against the physicians.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced the arrival of the first batch of more than 54,000 naloxone overdose reversal kits in Washington this week. The free distribution of these kits is a result of a December 2022 resolution in Ferguson’s lawsuit against Teva Pharmaceuticals for its role in fueling the opioid epidemic.
