Seattle Court Decision: Negotiating Rent Is Protected Speech

Earlier this week Washington State’s King County Superior Court Judge Suzanne Parisien reversed the City of Seattle’s effort to mandate that landlords rent to the first person that shows up for a vacant apartment. In August of 2016 the Seattle City Council read anecdotes from a local alternative weekly suggesting that local landlords were favoring Amazon employees by giving them discounts on rent.

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