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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.