(July 17, 2023, 12:15 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A federal judge in Washington denied preliminary approval of a $7.775 million settlement reached between Kona coffee growers and the last defendant in a class case accusing distributors and sellers of coffee labeled “Kona” coffee of misrepresenting the origin of their products, finding that the growers must show that an automatic stay based on that defendant’s filing for bankruptcy protection doesn’t apply or that the bankruptcy court has found cause to grant relief from the stay....