Amazon sues state agency to block release of company records to Bezos-owned Washington Post Amazon is suing a Washington state agency to prevent the release of some company materials to The Washington Post, the newspaper which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
The lawsuit said the agency provided the company a link to the records it proposed releasing to the newspaper, giving Amazon the opportunity to review them and go to court to block information it deemed sensitive.
In a lawsuit filed this week in King County Superior Court, the Seattle-based company asked the court to step in and block the release of documents that include “trade secrets” about Project Kuiper, an Amazon initiative to provide internet through satellites in space.
The files were collected by the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries during four on-site investigations of a Project Kuiper facility between August and October of last year, according to Amazon’s lawsuit.
Last year, Amazon also was involved in a high-profile worker safety case in Washington last year after regulators alleged that the company had put warehouse employees at unnecessary risk of injuries.