After a yearslong battle to avoid extradition, Canada’s so-called Prince of Pot was brought Thursday to Seattle, where he is expected to plead guilty to a charge that he sold millions of marijuana seeds to U.S. customers. Marc Emery claimed to have made $3 million a year before his arrest in 2005, when a Seattle grand jury indicted him on marijuana conspiracy and money-laundering charges.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Thursday that Les Schwab Tire Centers, based in Seattle, has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve claims that it failed to hire qualified women for tire-changing jobs at its stores in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Utah.

Robert Mitchell and Margaret Sheahan left the partnership at Pullman & Comley to start a firm in mid-January, catering mainly to Connecticut-based small businesses and individuals. “We deal with a market segment different from Pullman & Comley that couldn’t be supported with the rates we were charging,” says Sheahan. Meanwhile, Russell Savrann and Irvin Sandman’s new Connecticut firm has formed associations with small firms in Boston and Seattle so that it can get additional help as needed on big deals.

K&L Gates has cut incoming associate salaries, but in only four of its 33 offices. A firm spokesman said the salary reductions will affect first-year associates in Charlotte, Dallas, Raleigh and Seattle, but would not go into detail about the nature of the cuts.

Chicago-based KamberEdelson filed a class action Thursday that alleges Amazon violated the terms of use for its Kindle product when it deleted copies of George Orwell’s “1984″ and “Animal Farm” from Kindle users’ electronic libraries. The complaint, filed on behalf of two plaintiffs in federal court in Seattle, claims Kindle’s terms of use gives owners “the non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy of the applicable Digital Content and to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times.”