November 05, 2026
Washington state must pay plaintiffs' counsel roughly $73,000 in attorney fees and costs in a long-running case over its treatment of pretrial detainees in criminal proceedings, a Washington federal judge has ruled.
July 10, 2023
A Seattle federal judge has slammed a state agency for committing "inexcusable" constitutional rights violations by letting people with mental illness languish in local jails while awaiting trial, ordering the state to pay $100 million for violating a class action settlement over delays in court-ordered competency services.