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Amazon is accused of resorting to "dark patterns" of deceptive online cancelation buttons and boxes to trick Prime members into continuing their subscriptions even though they want to quit, according to a proposed class action filed Wednesday in Washington federal court.

A Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday waded into the language of a nearly 50-year-old landmark decision as it sought to settle two disputes between Washington tribes that are the latest in decadeslong litigation over tribal fishing rights in the state's waterways.

Washington state appellate judges on Wednesday weighed whether ads touting Seattle's hydroelectric dams as environmentally friendly have sparked harassment aimed at Sauk-Suiattle tribal members who get blamed for dwindling salmon runs, with one judge comparing the city's lack-of-causation argument to former President Donald Trump's stance after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

A licensed Washington cannabis farm told an appellate court that state regulators should not have destroyed nearly a ton of its cannabis, defending its decision not to tag the plants as required under state law because it had a system in place to trace the product that it claims satisfies those requirements.

A Starbucks executive told a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge Thursday that the company carefully crafted its communications to avoid the appearance of offering bribes to workers trying to unionize, as the coffee giant seeks to rebut claims that interim CEO Howard Schultz illegally promised better benefits to nonunion stores.

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. must pay a maximum penalty of nearly $25 million for 822 violations of a Washington state law requiring advertising platforms to publicly disclose detailed information about political ads, a state judge ruled Wednesday.

Starbucks asked a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge on Tuesday to dismiss a case accusing interim CEO Howard Schultz of illegally promising benefits to nonunion stores, arguing that the NLRB and the union that has organized hundreds of stores are seeking to set an "inescapable unfair labor practice trap" for the Seattle-based coffee giant.

A Ninth Circuit judge on Tuesday said a physical-assault exclusion in a Washington group home's insurance runs the risk of rendering the home's policy through Lloyd's of London "illusory," in a case where a violent dispute between two residents left one dead.

A Seattle jury awarded $275 million Thursday to 10 students and teachers who said exposure to Monsanto's toxic chemicals caused neurological injuries, the latest verdict in a series of similar lawsuits connected to a Seattle-area school where the chemicals were used in old fluorescent light fixtures.

Washington's attorney general is seeking the maximum penalty of nearly $25 million against Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms Inc. after a state judge ruled the social media giant intentionally committed 822 violations of a state law requiring advertising platforms to publicly disclose detailed information about political ads.