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Washington can proceed in its legal fight to hold two gold mining companies accountable for violating the Clean Water Act and discharging illegal levels of pollutants into groundwater and creeks in Okanogan County, a three-judge federal appeals court panel ruled unanimously Monday.
(Updates to correct that the AGO filed an assurance of discontinuance.)
More than 1,300 Washington patients will receive compensation through a $410,000 settlement with Puget Sound Physicians after a Consumer Protection Act investigation by the Attorney General’s Office found the emergency medicine provider repeatedly failed to issue refunds to a subset of patients who qualified for charity care.
The Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of states – including Washington – have secured a proposed settlement with pesticide manufacturing giant Corteva Inc. that will lead to lower pesticide prices for farmers.
The proposed settlement, filed in court late Friday, curbs Corteva’s anticompetitive schemes that have blocked competitors from selling cheaper generic products to farmers.
Artificial intelligence systems that escape human control pose potentially catastrophic harms, and Congress must establish federal oversight and a system of international cooperation to ensure the safety of AI model development, Attorney General Nick Brown and a bipartisan coalition of 25 other attorneys general urged in a letter to congressional leaders.
The federal government cannot force Washington state to give it the private information of all registered Washington voters, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
The ruling in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington dismisses the federal government’s case, which sought to compel the Office of the Secretary of State to break state law and provide the Department of Justice the unredacted private information of millions of Washington voters.
The Attorney General’s Office represented the Office of the Secretary of State in this case.
Attorney General Nick Brown is urging Washington consumers and businesses to check their eligibility for compensation under a recent settlement for certain generic drug purchases and to submit a claim for compensation here.
Washington and a multistate coalition have won a permanent court order stopping the federal administration’s unlawful attempt to gut essential health, education, and social service programs for low-income families.
Multi-state lawsuit also secures ruling that lawful permanent residents remain eligible for food assistance
The federal government is permanently blocked from illegally penalizing Washington and other states with steep fines tied to their administration of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), following a ruling in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon.
A coalition of 12 state attorneys general, including Attorney General Nick Brown, announced a settlement today with Paramount Skydance Corporation and Warner Bros. Discovery resolving the states' lawsuit alleging the merger of the two entertainment giants would harm competition by lowering output and raising prices, hurting the entertainment industry, workers, and Washington consumers in the process.
The Washington State Attorney General’s Office and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) Police continued their efforts to protect Washington’s waters and native species from invasive mitten crabs as they secured a guilty plea Thursday from a Washington individual who attempted to distribute mitten crabs in violation of state law.
WDFW Police led the investigation and the Attorney General’s office prosecuted the case.
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