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SEATTLE (AP) — A new lawsuit is challenging Seattle's first-in-the-nation voucher system for publicly financing political campaigns. The libertarian-leaning law firm Pacific Legal Foundation is suing the city over its new "democracy voucher" program, which was passed by voters in 2015 and is being used for the first time in this year's City Council races...

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mayor Ed Murray says he believes the withdrawal of a lawsuit filed against him alleging sexual abuse in the 1980s vindicates him. The mayor made the statement at a news conference Wednesday in response to his accuser's lawyer, Lincoln Beauregard, filing a motion to dismiss the lawsuit...

**The U.S. exit from the Paris Accord climate change agreement will have no impact on biofuels. The American Coalition for Ethanol’s Brian Jennings says President Trump's announcement won't affect renewable fuels because commitments made in the accord were based on the clean power plan and automobile fuel economy rules...

Attorneys have filed a lawsuit in federal court, seeking to compel two architects of CIA interrogation tactics to provide information to Polish officials who are investigating a former CIA jail in Poland. The lawsuit was filed late last month in federal court in eastern Washington state...

SEATTLE (AP) — The City of Seattle will pay $125,000 to a man to settle a 2012 federal police-brutality lawsuit that had been previously dismissed. The Seattle Times reports the settlement came last week, after a panel of judges in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals suggested during oral arguments in March that the city and attorney for David Rengo take the case into mediation...

SEATTLE (AP) — Attorneys for Seattle Mayor Ed Murray have formally denied allegations of sexual abuse and asked that a lawsuit making the claims be dismissed. The Seattle Times reports lawyers Malaika Eaton and Robert Sulkin wrote in court papers filed Wednesday that Murray "denies any inappropriate contact with the Plaintiff or any minor...

SEATTLE (AP) — Another longtime deputy has filed a lawsuit accusing King County Sheriff John Urquhart of discrimination against female employees. The Seattle Times reports 53-year-old Mary Syson, a patrol officer who's worked in the department for 24 years, filed the complaint Friday...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a campaign finance lawsuit involving the 2014 campaign for Grant County prosecutor. The lawsuit was filed Monday in Thurston County Superior Court against former Grant County Superior Court Judge Jerry Moberg and Moses Lake business owner Ken Greene...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Kalispel Tribe is suing the U.S. government over its approval of a rival casino project by the Spokane Tribe in the lucrative Spokane gambling market. The Kalispel Tribe filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S...

VANCOUVER  (AP) — Owners of a nightclub in Washington state say the city of Vancouver and others successfully conspired to close the club due to racial prejudice and have filed a $22.5 million lawsuit. The Columbian reports in a story on Friday that the owners of Q Nightclub and Lounge say efforts by the city and a transit agency resulted in the business closing in late 2015...