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SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state teenager who was riding her bicycle through a mall parking lot when an off-duty officer working as a security guard threw her to the ground and shocked her with a stun gun is suing a police department. Surveillance video caught the 2014 encounter between Monique Tillman, who's black, and Tacoma Officer Jerad Williams, who's white, and it swept through social media

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Three environmental groups and two commercial fishing advocacy groups say they will file a lawsuit against the federal government over heat-related fish kills in the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest. The groups on Monday sent a 60-day notice of their intent to sue the U...

SPOKANE (AP) — An inmate is suing the Washington State Penitentiary over claims that prison officials refused to provide him with dentures after he underwent an operation to have most of his teeth removed. The Spokesman-Review reports Jimmy de la Mater's lawsuit says he suffered intestinal pain after being forced to eat soft food...

SEATTLE (AP) — Amtrak has agreed to adopt anti-discrimination policies and provide additional training on the Americans With Disabilities Act following a lawsuit concerning a man who was denied a job because of his epilepsy. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit last year on behalf of Shawn Moe, who sought to work as a machinist journeyman at Amtrak's yard in Seattle i

SEATTLE (AP) — The University of Washington's board of regents is facing a lawsuit over allegations that it violated the state's open meeting laws by selecting the university's president in secret. The Seattle Times reports that the lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Washington Coalition for Open Government cites email exchanges between university officials that indicate the board picked Ana Mari Cauce

SEATTLE (AP) — A judge has dismissed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's lawsuit against Seattle's new ordinance that gives drivers for ride-hailing companies the ability to unionize over pay and working conditions. The Seattle Times reports that the judge called the suit premature Tuesday, saying the Chamber doesn't yet have standing to challenge the law because it hasn't yet been harmed by it... Read

EVERETT (AP) — State Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn says he plans to sue a few school districts that use local levies to pay teachers because they don't get enough from the state. Dorn says basic education is a state responsibility and he believes school districts don't have the authority to use local levies to make up what the state does not fund...

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed against a man accused of killing a couple near Oso, burying their remains in a remote forest clearing and then fleeing to Mexico. The Daily Herald reports the lawsuit, filed late last month, alleges John Reed "wrongfully took the life of Patrick Shunn...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Two former Air Force psychologists from Washington state who helped design the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects are denying a group's allegations of torture and war crimes. But James E...