Every contract, combination, in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce is hereby declared unlawful.
RCW 19.86.030
Contracts, combinations, conspiracies in restraint of trade declared unlawful.
Known as the Consumer Protection Act
The act spans §§ 19.86.010 to 19.86.920 (26 sections).
Applied in 41 court decisions — leading case 128 Wash. 2d 656 - Tanner Electric Cooperative v. Puget Sound Power & Light (1996)
Most recently applied in Lawson v. Spirit Aerosystems (April 2025)
1961 c 216 s 3.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.