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A Washington state court judge on Thursday said Donald Trump should remain on the state's election ballots, rejecting a bid by a group of voters who said the former president and candidate engaged in an insurrection for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and was ineligible to be president.

Washington state's attorney general on Monday filed another legal challenge against Kroger's $24.6 billion bid for supermarket rival Albertsons Cos, this time directly contesting the combination of the state's two largest grocers as an anti-competitive overlap unresolved by the planned divestiture of over 100 stores in the state. 

A day after a Washington appellate court panel said the CARES Act's eviction notice requirement applies beyond late-rent cases, another judge on the court reviewing a separate eviction suggested Wednesday the ruling could lead to "disturbing" consequences if landlords aren't allowed to quickly evict violent tenants.

Washington State University has a duty to protect students, but only on campus or during university-controlled activities, a divided Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a case brought by a student who filed Title IX discrimination and negligence claims against the school after she was raped at an off-campus party.

The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday said a young woman could pursue a bad faith insurance investigation claim against Premera Blue Cross for refusing to cover wilderness therapy treatment when she was a teenager, but the justices tossed a breach of contract claim, saying the insurer didn't violate federal mental health parity law.

A group of plaintiffs fighting to preserve hundreds of millions of dollars in jury verdicts against Monsanto for PCB poisoning told an appellate court Tuesday that the Washington Supreme Court's recent decision throwing out the state's eight-year limit on malpractice claims is fatal to the company's appellate arguments.

Albertsons is looking to force Amazon to disclose how $700,000 was spent on improving a California retail space leased to the e-commerce giant, as part of an underlying lawsuit filed by the property's landlord accusing former tenant Albertsons of owing millions for rebuilding the space to Amazon's specifications.

A Seattle jury said Monday a Monsanto spinoff owes $165 million to a group of former school employees who claimed the chemical company's products ended up in light fixtures on the school campus that slowly poisoned them, marking $880 million in trial losses for Monsanto in litigation involving the same school.

Current and former Boeing workers took the stand Monday on the first day of a bench trial in an age discrimination suit brought by a longtime manager in the company's intellectual property licensing department, describing an atmosphere so toxic that the office had a "crying chair" for upset workers.

Two University of Washington professors filed a proposed class action this week accusing the state attorney general and an ethics board director of encroaching on academic freedom, urging a federal court to block the board's ability "to rummage through" faculty emails in hopes of finding state ethics law violations.