Isn't it a great achievement when one company you got sues another one of yours? Amazon is suing the Washington Post via proxy right now!
The company that Jeff Bezos founded has gone to court to keep the newspaper he owns from finding out too much about the inner workings of its business.
Amazon is suing Washington state to limit the release of public records to
The Washington Post from a series of state Department of Labor and Industries investigations of an Amazon Project Kuiper satellite facility in the Seattle area.
The lawsuit, filed this week in King County Superior Court in Seattle, says the newspaper on Nov. 26 requested “copies of inspection records, investigation notes, interview notes, complaints,” and other documents related to four investigations at the Redmond, Wash., facility between August and October 2024.
The Washington Post isn’t named as a defendant in the lawsuit. But the public records request further underscores the independence of the publication’s reporters in covering the business dealings of its owner.
In this case, Amazon says in the suit, the state provided Amazon with a link to the records that it proposed releasing to the newspaper to give the company a chance to review them and go to court as it deemed necessary.
“Amazon does not seek to prevent disclosure of all of the requested records,” the suit says. “Rather, Amazon seeks to protect a subset of records that contain trade secrets,” as defined by law. “The release of this proprietary information would irreparably harm Amazon in such a way that monetary damages would be inadequate to make Amazon whole.”