Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson

OLYMPIA December 9, 2020 – Attorney General Bob Ferguson today filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook asserting the company formed an illegal monopoly in the personal social networking market. The company formed this monopoly by buying or constraining potential competitors, usually mobile apps, in their infancy — including rivals Instagram and WhatsApp. These actions helped […]

YAKIMA, Wash. Sept. 17, 2020 — A federal judge in Yakima, Wash., today granted Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s request to grant a nationwide injunction forcing the U.S. Postal Service to immediately halt drastic operational changes. Judge Stanley A. Bastian will issue a detailed written order this afternoon. In its motion for a preliminary injunction, Ferguson […]

OLYMPIA, WA November 12, 2019 –  A federal judge ruled today that the Trump Administration violated federal law in its efforts to allow 3D-printed gun files to be released on the internet. In July 2018, Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, arguing that […]

OLYMPIA January 15, 2019 – Attorney General Bob Ferguson today issued the following statement after a federal judge in New York ruled against the Trump Administration’s decision to include a question about citizenship status in the 2020 U.S. Census. “Today’s ruling is a major victory for all Washingtonians and an affirmation of our values as […]

OLYMPIA, Dec. 10, 2018 – Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Governor Jay Inslee and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan today submitted a comment letter criticizing proposed Trump Administration rules targeting immigrants. The revisions to the so-called “public charge” rule would harm Washingtonians, causing children – citizens and non-citizens alike – to forfeit meals, health insurance, and a […]

OLYMPIA July 31, 2018 – Attorney General Ferguson today issued the following statement: “Once again, my office had to hold this Administration accountable to the rule of law. I am thankful and relieved Judge Lasnik put a nationwide stop to the Trump Administration’s dangerous decision to allow downloadable, 3D-printed ghost guns to be distributed online. […]

SEATTLE, July 12, 2018 — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that in order to avoid a lawsuit from his office, seven large, corporate fast-food chains will immediately end a nationwide practice that restricts worker mobility and decreases competition for labor by preventing workers from moving among the chains’ franchise locations. The companies will no […]

SEATTLE, Jan. 3, 2018 — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced a lawsuit against national hotel chain Motel 6 for voluntarily providing guest lists to agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on a routine basis for at least two years. Each time Motel 6 released a guest list, it included the name and […]

OLYMPIA, WA May 25, 2017 – Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued the following statement today after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled 10-3 to keep the nationwide injunction on the President’s revised travel ban in place. “Another federal appeals court has agreed with our arguments that President Trump’s revised travel ban […]

SEATTLE, Wa. March 9, 2017 – In documents to be filed in federal court Thursday, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson contends that the injunction he obtained blocking key sections of President Trump’s previous immigration Executive Order applies to the new version. This is not a new lawsuit. Rather, Ferguson asserts that the burden is on […]

SEATTLE, Feb. 16, 2017 —Attorney General Bob Ferguson declared victory in State v. Trump, in light of the U.S. Department of Justice’s filing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today. Justice, on behalf of President Trump, represented to the court that: “the President intends in the near future to rescind the Order and replace […]

SEATTLE February 3, 2017 – A federal judge in Seattle today granted Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s request to immediately halt implementation of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order on immigration nationwide. The Temporary Restraining Order will remain in place until U.S. District Court Senior Judge James L. Robart considers the Attorney General’s lawsuit challenging key provisions […]

SEATTLE February 2, 2017 – Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced the filing of an amended complaint in State of Washington v. Trump, the state’s lawsuit challenging key sections of President Trump’s immigration Executive Order as illegal and unconstitutional. The amended complaint filed late Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Western District […]