The judge called the state's lawsuit “needless.'
0ee03662a9d2249ac3a2e22180eed3c2ac69879bby GENE JOHNSON Associated PressFILE - A Value Village store is seen, Dec. 12, 2017, in Edmonds, Wash. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson's long-running legal case against the thrift store chain Savers Value Village turned out to be no bargain, as the state was ordered on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, to pay the company nearly $4.3 million in legal fees.
Savers Value Village, which is based in Bellevue, Washington, and operates more than 300 stores in the U.S., Canada and Australia, said it would donate more than $1 million of the award to charities.The attorney general’s office began investigating the company in late 2014 and, after Savers Value Village declined to pay millions of dollars to settle the investigation, Ferguson — a Democrat who is now running for governor — sued.
Two of the major charities it works with in Washington — Northwest Center, which supports people with disabilities, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound — had urged the attorney general’s office to drop the case. Whedbee said the attorney general's office acted in good faith, but the way the office handled the case — including ignoring requests by the company's attorneys to figure out what it was supposedly doing wrong — had drawn out the matter and run up legal costs for the company.
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