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Bezos vs. Bezos: Amazon sues to keep records from Washington Post

January 29, 2025

Posted by Chris Roush

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, reports Todd Bishop of Geekwire.

Bishop reports, “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.

“It’s not an unusual move by the company, and in some ways it’s a legal technicality. Amazon says it’s not seeking to block the records release entirely, but rather seeking to protect from public disclosure certain records that contain proprietary information and trade secrets about the company’s satellite internet operations.”

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