Other LanguagesWashington and 22 other plaintiffs are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for illegally ending a $7 billion program that lowers energy costs and pollution by bringing solar energy to more than 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities across the country.
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown joined a coalition of 20 state attorneys general throwing their support behind The Stanford Daily – an independent student-run newspaper at Stanford University – in their lawsuit against the Trump administration over its “Ideological Deportation Policy,” which targets and punishes noncitizens with lawful status, especially college students and faculty who express political beliefs with which the administration disagrees.
Last week, the Attorney General’s Office prevailed in two cases that sent individuals considered Sexually Violent Predators (SVPs) to the Special Containment Center (SCC) on McNeil Island for custody, care, and treatment.
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.
Today, Attorney General Nick Brown joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaiʻi, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia, to issue a joint statement condemning the Trump administration’s retaliatory prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James:
Attorney General Nick Brown has joined a coalition of 24 attorneys general and governors in filing a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in support of Illinois against President Trump’s unlawful, unconstitutional, and undemocratic deployment of the National Guard without approval from the state’s governor.
Clergy in Washington will remain mandatory reporters under stipulations filed today by the state Attorney General’s Office and the plaintiffs in lawsuits against the state over Senate Bill 5375.
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.
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.