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. In a lawsuit filed this week in King County Superior Court,

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 seeks to prevent the imminent release of records to the outlet. Amazon maintains that some of the information shouldn't be handed over because it contains trade secrets.

SEATTLE — Amazon has confirmed that it laid off a group of employees in the Communications and Corporate Responsibility organization.

The cuts follow Amazon's layoff of 200 people in its North America stores unit from earlier this month. Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) is laying off employees in its communications and corporate responsibility division,