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September 18, 2026
The Ninth Circuit's recent holding in Rickes v. Thermo Fisher that the mere delivery of an email doesn't establish an employee's assent to the arbitration agreement underscores that rollout processes should both give employees notice of the agreement and create evidence of their assent, say attorneys at Sullivan & Cromwell.
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September 17, 2026
A Washington sheriff's office was hit with a $27 million tort claim Thursday alleging a deputy wrongfully killed a DUI suspect by stabbing him 17 times with a personal, "unauthorized" dagger during a May 2025 confrontation in a testing room at a Washington State Patrol station.
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September 17, 2026
The daughter of a Washington woman who died in a 2021 heat wave has agreed to drop claims against oil giants Chevron, Shell, BP and Phillips 66, according to motions filed Tuesday and Wednesday in King County Superior Court.
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September 17, 2026
The Washington State Supreme Court has invalidated a voter-approved initiative barring local governments and building code officials from adopting rules to discourage natural gas use, ruling in a 6-3 decision Thursday that it violates a provision of the state constitution limiting legislative measures to a single subject.
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September 17, 2026
A Washington state judge said he will not reconsider his finding that T-Mobile committed more than 722,000 violations of a state data breach notification law.
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