A well-known and well-to-do attorney in Washington state has created a stir by offering in an e-mail to donate $200,000 to his alma mater, the University of Washington School of…
Guests got an earful last month at a holiday party hosted by a municipal judge for a town in Washington state, and the comments are still reverberating. Judge Colleen Hartl,…
For the first time in its 17-year history, a Washington state treatment program for convicted sex offenders deemed to pose a serious risk of repeating their crimes if released is…
The state of California plans to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for rejecting its plan to implement tougher air quality standards for cars and trucks.
A Washington state woman found guilty of vehicular homicide concerning an auto accident she can’t remember has filed an appeal seeking to overturn the felony conviction, arguing that she was…
A federal judge in Seattle has dismissed a lawsuit against a website that rates lawyers, saying the posted opinions are protected by the First Amendment.
A routine training session led to another, in-depth program for a Washington state judge censured for his “demeaning, offensive and shocking” behavior at a Los Angeles conference last summer.
Updated: Lawyers throughout the country reportedly may be investigated as part of a Washington state-based probe of an alleged scheme in which a local firm, BNT Investigations, was hired by…
There is no right to taxpayer-funded counsel in a divorce case under the Washington state constitution, the state’s supreme court has ruled in a closely watched case.
There is a growing groundswell of support by colleagues for a Massachusetts judge who has become a target for national election-year political criticism after agreeing to release a convicted killer…
A unanimous Washington Supreme Court has ruled that a southwestern Washington woman was wrongfully barred from getting a job as a clerk and checker because she was pregnant.
A federal judge has ruled that a Seattle-area coffeeshop owner may go to trial next year to air her claims in court: that coffee giant Starbucks “cluster-bombs” neighborhoods, barraging the…
A medical team that successfully revived a newborn, allegedly without the parents’ consent, has no liability for doing so to the child or his parents, the Washington Supreme Court decided…