Bob Ferguson

A group of state attorneys general recently asked Congress to pass expansive Right-to-Repair legislation targeted at cars, farm equipment, and digital electronics.  In a letter to the House and Senate Commerce Committee, the group says, "The Right-to-Repair is a bipartisan issue that impacts every consumer, household, and farm in a time of increasing inflation.”   ...

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced this week the largest chicken producer in the nation will pay $10.5 million because of a lawsuit over price-fixing on chicken products.  The announcement is the third and largest resolution in Ferguson’s lawsuit against 19 broiler chicken producers.  The claims ag...

Earlier this month, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a civil rights lawsuit against Sunnyside-based Ostrom Mushroom Farm, claiming discrimination against female workers.  Ferguson claimed that Ostrom fired 79% of their female pickers, replacing them with H2-A male pickers.  The AG’...

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit Tuesday against 19 chicken producers, accusing them of conspiracy to inflate prices to maximize profits. The suit, filed in King County, also accuses those companies of rigging bids and coordinating supply reductions ...

A judge announced last week he will not throw out Washington’s lawsuit against Monsanto over pervasive pollution from PCBs.  In a ruling Thursday, the King County Superior Court Judge declined a request by Monsanto to dismiss the case, saying the Ag company had waived its right to bring the motion to dismiss by not filing it sooner.   I...

This summer, the Trump Administration proposed several small changes to the Endangered Species Act.  And while many in the Ag community call them minimal and common sense, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed suit against President Trump.  ...

This summer, the Trump Administration proposed several small changes to the Endangered Species Act.  And while many in the Ag community call them minimal and common sense, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed suit against President Trump.   ...

On Thursday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco agreed with Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson that the EPA halted a scientific safety review of the pesticide chlorpyrifos.  The court said by stopping that review, the EPA allows the continued use of the pesticide at potentially dangerous levels.  Th...

On Thursday, the Washington Supreme Court agreed with Attorney General Bob Ferguson that agricultural workers who are paid on a “piece-rate” basis are also entitled to hourly compensation for time they spend on other aspects of their jobs. In a “f...

Last week, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson joined several other states looking to ban the nation’s most widely used insecticide.  Ferguson, and attorneys general from four East Coast states and the District of Columbia filed the suit Wednesday.  In March...