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 has been ordered to pay the company nearly $4.3 million in legal fees.
King County Superior Court Judge David Whedbee issued the award on Tuesday, eight months after the state Supreme Court the attorney general’s claims that marketing practices by the thrift store chain were deceptive. The judge called the state’s lawsuit “needless.”
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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