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Attorney General’s Office releases report highlighting veterans’ legal support needs statewide

SEATTLE — The Washington state Attorney General’s Office of Military and Veteran Legal Assistance (OMVLA) released its Civil Legal Needs Survey report today, summarizing the met and unmet civil (non-criminal) legal needs of Washington's veterans, service members, and their families.

The report — based on recent surveys by the office of hundreds of people in need of services and hundreds more service providers — identified the top three civil legal needs statewide for veterans, service members, and their families as:

AG Brown joins lawsuit challenging Trump administration rule that would make it harder for Washingtonians to obtain health coverage under the ACA

By the Trump administration's own estimates, the rule will cause up to 1.8 million people to lose their health insurance

SEATTLE – Attorney General Nick Brown today joined a multistate coalition in filing a lawsuit challenging an unlawful final rule promulgated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that would create significant barriers to obtaining health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Washington state sues Trump administration for unlawfully cutting billions in disaster mitigation funding

SEATTLE — Attorney General Nick Brown today led a coalition of 20 states in suing the Trump administration over its decision to illegally shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) bipartisan Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, designed to protect communities from natural disasters before they strike.