According to allegations in a lawsuit filed today by Washington and four other states, Zillow and Redfin violated antitrust laws when they struck a deal earlier this year that cements Zillow’s dominance in the market for online rental ads.
 
Property listing services, also called internet listing services, are one of the most important tools for Washingtonians looking for rental housing. These kinds of services allow people to search for available rentals, compare multiple properties, and filter by price, location, number of bedrooms, and accessibility.
 

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from unlawfully reallocating federal homeland security funding away from states based on their compliance with the administration’s political agenda, a day after a coalition of states including Washington filed a lawsuit.