Washington lawmakers say the change aligns the state with similar efforts on the West Coast. California and Oregon are the ...

State and local offices across Washington are being directed to remove the word 'alien' from state statutes and replace it ...

State and local offices across Washington are now under direction to remove “alien” from statutes. Instead, instances of that phrasing will be replaced with “noncitizen." We look at the full timeline ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Washington is now the fourth state in the nation to remove use of the word 'alien' from its laws when ...

The Alien Land Law was part of a long line of anti-Asian, anti-immigrant measures imposed by American judges and lawmakers since 1790, when Congress decreed that only white people could become ...

WASHINGTON-In a case watched closely by human rights groups and business organizations alike, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled to decide when foreigners can use U.S. courts to litigate over ...

Rather than kill the corporate alien tort outright, the court maimed all forms of alien tort by restricting their territorial reach. But that's not what happened. Rather than kill the corporate alien ...