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A King County jury awarded $21 million to Dr. Benjamin Danielson, the Black former medical director of Odessa Brown Children's Clinic, after finding Seattle Children's Hospital liable for systemic racial discrimination and a hostile work environment.

A federal jury found that GEO Group violated Washington State minimum wage law by paying immigration detainees $1 per day to cook, clean, and maintain its Tacoma detention facility, awarding more than $17 million in back wages to a class of roughly 10,000 people.

A King County jury awarded Sherrie Holdsworth $16,674,097 against Scapa Waycross after her husband Kevan, a Camas paper mill worker, died of mesothelioma caused by the company's asbestos-containing dryer felts, the largest asbestos verdict in King County history.

The family of Jackson Reavis, 22, killed at a Wedgwood intersection Seattle knew was dangerous, settled with the City for $6.5 million after evidence showed the City had already allocated funding for protective left-turn signals but abandoned the project before the fatal crash.

The family of Giovonn Joseph-McDade, an unarmed 20-year-old Black man shot and killed by a Kent Police officer in 2017 following a traffic stop for expired registration, settled their federal civil-rights and wrongful-death lawsuit against the City of Kent for $4.4 million in April 2021.

A King County jury awarded $3,263,230 to Linda O'Brien, a stage-4 breast cancer survivor who was fired by her dental-clinic employer two days after requesting to work from home while contagious with shingles.