A King County judge has ordered two people and their companies to pay more than $7 million after finding them liable for operating a statewide, multi-year scheme to gain control of deceased strangers’ estates and divert money away from their rightful heirs.

Attorney General Nick Brown today led a coalition of 24 attorneys general and governors in an amicus brief supporting Oregon’s court challenge to the Trump administration’s latest attempts to illegally use the military for civil law enforcement.

In a move to make all levels of government more transparent, Attorney General Nick Brown has proposed changes to the model rules that guide governments’ responses to Public Records Act requests.

“Concerns about transparency and integrity in government are at an all-time high, and officials have an obligation to uphold the spirit of the Public Records Act,” Attorney General Nick Brown said. “We welcome the public’s input into these model rules aimed at helping agencies across the state increase transparency and responsiveness to requests.”

MUNICIPALITIES—STATUTORY AUTHORITY—HOUSING FUNDS—TAXATION—BONDS—Authority of Municipalities to Use Lodging Tax Revenues to Repay Revenue Bonds Issued to Finance Affordable Workforce Housing Within One-Half Mile of a Transit Station

RCW 67.28.160 authorizes a municipality to use lodging tax revenues to repay bonds issued to finance affordable workforce housing within one-half mile of a transit station.

September 18, 2025

Washington and 19 other states are suing the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to block new restrictions on federal funding that supports survivors of domestic violence and other violent crimes, jeopardizing potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars that were previously authorized for legal assistance services in Washington.

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.