Oregon Discrimination Law
 

Timothy Schroder v. Amazon.com Services LLC, et al


Portland, Oregon employment discrimination civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff.


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Conner Slevin v.Tae Hong Choi Trust, et al.


Portland, Oregon civil rights lawyer represented the PLaintiff who sued on an Americans with Disabilities Act violation theory.



The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in several areas, including employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and access to state and local government' program... More...
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Justin Burley-Beavers v. Tran Phong Hong, et al.


Portland, Oregon civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on an Americans with Disabilities Act violation theory.



The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in several areas, including employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and acces... More...
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Ann Ware v. Coos Bay School District 9, a/k/a Coos Bay Public Schools

Eugene, Oregon civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a job discrimination theory.

"Job discrimination law is a complex area of law that prohibits discrimination in employment based on certain protected characteristics. These protected characteristics include race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age (40 or older), disability, and genetic informati... More...
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Lisa Farlin v. Southern Oregon Child And Family Council, Inc., et al.

Medford, Oregon civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a Americans With Disabilities Act violation theory.

The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including employment, education, transportation, and public accommodations. The law was passed in... More...
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Jennifer Rose v. City of Coquille, et al.

Eugene, Oregon civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on employment discrimination theories. ... More...    $0 (12-28-2021 - OR)

Loredana Ranza v. Ranza v. Nike, Inc. et al.

Portland, Oregon civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a job discrimination theory under 42 U.S.C. 2000e.... More...    $0 (12-06-2021 - OR)

Michelle Farabaugh v. 1-800-Flowers.Com, Inc., et al.

Medford, Oregon civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a job discrimination theory under 42 U.S.C. 2000e. ... More...    $0 (12-01-2021 - OR)

Carlton Eugene Hayes v. Oregon Department of Corrections




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Eugene, OR - Carlton Eugene Hayes sued the Oregon Department of Corrections on a civil rights employment discrimination theory.... More...
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Sarah Meyer and Gail Wooldridge v. State of Oregon

Marion County Courthouse - Salem, Oregon

Plaintiffs, Sarah Meyer and Martin Wooldridge, appeal from a general judgment dismissing their action against defendants Oregon State Lottery (the Lottery), Jill Goldsmith, Larry Niswender, Tessa Sugahara, John Kroger, and Craig Durbin.1 Plaintiffs assert five assignments of error. We reject plaintiffs’ fourth assignment of error without written discussion and write only to address their remaining... More...    $0 (07-05-2018 - OR)

Douglas Ossanna v. Nike, Inc.

Oregon Supreme Court Building - Eugene, Oregon

Plaintiff is a licensed electrician who previously
worked for defendant, Nike, Inc., in its maintenance department.
Defendant fired plaintiff after he used one of defendant’s
on-site basketball courts at a prohibited time. In
response, plaintiff sued defendant for, among other things,
statutory safety complaint and whistleblower retaliation.
Plaintiff alleged that defendant... More...
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Janell Howard v. City of Coos Bay

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Courthouse - San Francisco, California

We must decide whether the former employee of a City in Oregon may prevail on allegations that it violated the First Amendment and state law by refusing to rehire her.
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Janell Howard served as the Finance Director for the City of Coos Bay (“City”) from 1998 through 2008. On September 16, 2008, after an investigation into whether Howard had shoplifted from Wal-Mart (from which no cha... More...
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Patrick Featherstone v. Service Employees International Union Local 503

Plaintiff James Parker (Parker) appeals the trial
court’s limited judgment, asserting that the court erred in
dismissing his employment discrimination claim against
Service Employees International Union Local 503 (SEIU).
Parker asserts that the trial court erred in concluding on
the record before it that he could not establish that he was
an employee of SEIU and, therefore,... More...
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United States of America v. John Blayne Vangastel

Eugene, OR - John Blayne Vangastel, 37, of Klamath Falls, Oregon, pleaded guilty of Oregon to one count of using threats of force to injure, intimidate and interfere with his neighbors in the enjoyment of their housing rights because they are a family of Vietnamese descent.

According to court documents, on the evening of Dec. 30, 2015, Vangastel, who had been living next door to a family... More...
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State Of Oregon v. Hickman/Hickman

Defendants Dale and Shannon Hickman have been lifelong members of the Followers of Christ Church. That church—drawing from the Christian Bible’s descriptions that Jesus and his disciples, rather than doctors, healed the sick and disabled—instructs its members to rely on “faith healing” and to eschew conventional medicine. For the Followers of Christ, faith healing entails prayer, anointing the sic... More...    $0 (10-12-2015 - OR)

Blachana, LLC v. BOLI

The Rose City T-Girls is an informal social group that includes straight people, married couples, nonmarried couples, males who identify as females, cross-dressers, males who have physically transitioned to females, lesbians, and gay males. Respondents,1 Blachana, LLC, and Christopher Penner, own and manage a bar in North Portland formerly known as the P Club.2 Respondents seek judicial review of ... More...    $0 (09-29-2015 - OR)

In the Matter of J.C.N-V, a Youth

Youth appeals a judgment of the juvenile court
granting the state’s petition to waive youth into circuit
court so that he could be tried as an adult on the charge
of aggravated murder. Youth, who was 13 years and eight
months old at the time of the alleged offense, was made eligible
for adult prosecution by ORS 419C.352, which allows
for discretionary waiver for 12- to 14... More...
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Joseph Bova v. City of Medford

2 Plaintiff is a retired employee of defendant, the City of Medford. Both
3 parties petition this court for reconsideration of its opinion in Bova v. City of Medford,
4 263 Or App 179, 326 P3d 1256 (2014) (Bova II). In that opinion, we summarized the
5 procedural posture and the parties' positions as follows:
6 "The underlying dispute is over the city's refusal to make availableMore...
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Bobbi Klutschkowski v. Peacehealth

Plaintiffs brought this medical malpractice action to recover for injuries that their son sustained during delivery.

On review, the issues are whether ORCP 59 H limits an appellate court’s ability to review objections to a trial court’s instructional rulings and whether a statutory cap on noneconomic damages constitutionally can be applied to actions brought by children injured during b... More...
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Rick C. Love v. Prime, Inc.

2 Plaintiff appeals a judgment for defendant on plaintiff's disability
3 discrimination claim, assigning error to an order that granted summary judgment to
4 defendant and an order that denied a motion for a stay. We conclude that the trial court
5 erred in granting summary judgment, which renders the assignment on the stay moot.
6 Accordingly, we reverse the judgment and remand.More...
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Mark McMillan v. Li Ning Sports, USA

Mark McMillan sued Li Ning Sports, USA on an employment discrimination theory claiming that he was wrongfully terminated because of his race by Chinese Li Ning executives. Plaintiff was hired in 2008 as the director of design engineering. He was offered a promotion in 2010 that required him to move to Beijing at a salary of $351,120 but the promotion was later rescinded.

Defendant denied ... More...
   $1250000 (06-22-2013 - OR)

Ronald Doyle v. City of Medford

2 This case involves four plaintiffs, each of whom retired from employment
3 with the City of Medford (the city) and each of whom attempted to elect to continue the
4 health insurance coverage that the city had provided to them as employees. But the city's
5 health insurance plan that applied to plaintiffs at the time of their retirement did not
6 provide coverage for retirees. Alt... More...
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OSU Student Alliance v. Ed Ray

The complaint alleges that employees in Oregon State University’s Facilities Department gathered up the outdoor newsbins belonging to the Liberty, a conservative student monthly, and threw them in a heap by a dumpster in a storage yard. The employees acted pursuant to an unwritten and previously unenforced policy governing newsbins on campus. They did not notify anyone at the Liberty before conf... More...    $0 (10-24-2012 - OR)

Stan Hatkoff v. Portland Adventist Medical Center

2 In this employment age discrimination action, ORS 659A.030, plaintiff
3 appeals from a general judgment of dismissal, ORCP 21 A, that was predicated on
4 plaintiff's failure to follow the alternative dispute resolution procedure prescribed in his
5 employee handbook. Plaintiff contends that the prescribed grievance and arbitration
6 procedure is unenforceable for three reasons: (... More...
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Providence Health System Oregon v. Joy M. Walker

2 In this workers' compensation proceeding, we are asked to resolve three
issues: (1) whether employer was obligated under ORS 656.262(7)(c)1 3 to reopen and
4 process claimant's omitted condition claims after an administrative law judge (ALJ) had
5 found the conditions compensable but while employer's appeal of the ALJ order was
6 pending; (2) if employer was so obligated, whether... More...
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Michael Moss v. United States Secret Service

During the 2004 presidential campaign, Plaintiff-Appellees, Michael Moss and others who opposed President Bush (“protestors” or “anti-Bush protestors”), organized a demonstration at a campaign stop in Jacksonville, Oregon. They contend that Secret Service agents, Defendant-Appellants Tim Wood and Rob Savage (“agents” or “Secret Service agents”), engaged in unconstitutional viewpoin... More...    $0 (04-09-2012 - OR)

Monica Emeldi v. University of Oregon

In Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education, the Supreme Court held that retaliation by a federally funded educational institution against someone who complains of gender discrimination is actionable under Title IX. 544 U.S. 167, 171 (2005). We must decide what a plaintiff must prove to prevail on a Title IX retaliation claim, and whether plaintiff Monica Emeldi adduced sufficient evidence of her ... More...    $0 (03-22-2012 - or)

General Bell v. Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon

2 Plaintiff, decedent's personal representative, appeals from a general
3 judgment of dismissal in this personal injury action against a public body, Tri-County
4 Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet). Plaintiff assigns error to the
5 trial court's allowance of TriMet's motion to dismiss on statute of limitations grounds,
6 based on the two-year limitation period ... More...
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Ralph Lewis Read, M.D. v. Oregon Medical Board

SCHUMAN, P. J.
2 The Oregon Medical Board (board) concluded that petitioner engaged in
3 unprofessional conduct and willfully disobeyed a board order, and, as a consequence, it
4 revoked his license to practice medicine, fined him $10,000, and ordered him to pay the
5 costs of the disciplinary proceedings--$14,599.05. Petitioner seeks judicial review,
6 arguing, first, that the... More...
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Karen M. Roberts v. Oregon Mutual Insurance Company

Plaintiff, a former employee of defendant, brought claims against defendant for common-law wrongful discharge and for unlawful employment discrimination under ORS 659A.230(1). She appeals after the trial court granted defendant summary judgment under ORCP 47. We affirm.

For purposes of summary judgment, we review the facts in the light most favorable to plaintiff to determine if there exist... More...
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Karuk Tribe of California v. Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon

Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) appeals a general judgment entered on writ of review that reversed and annulled TriMet's decision to decline publishing on TriMet vehicles a display proposed by petitioners. Petitioners Karuk Tribe of California (Tribe) and Friends of the River Foundation (Friends) offered to pay TriMet for displaying a message about salmon restora... More...    $0 (03-16-2011 - OR)

Diane L. Sanders v. City of Newport

Diane Sanders, a former employee of the City of Newport (“the City”), sued the City when it refused to reinstate her after she took an approved medical leave. In her complaint, Sanders alleged that the City violated the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (“FMLA”), the Oregon Family Leave Act (“OFLA”), and other state and federal laws when it failed to reinstate her after she took FML... More...    $0 (03-18-2011 - OR)

Ken Hamlin v. Hampton Lumber Mills, Inc.

In this case, plaintiff was injured while working at defendant's mill. When plaintiff was released to return to work, defendant refused to reinstate him as required by ORS 659A.043, falsely asserting that he was a "safety risk." A jury awarded plaintiff lost wages of $6,000 and punitive damages of $175,000. On appeal, the Court of Appeals held that the punitive damages award was "grossly excess... More...    $0 (01-06-2011 - OR)

Shane Dawson v. Entek International

Shane Dawson (Dawson), a male homosexual, appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of his former employer, Entek International (Entek), on claims of discrimination arising from his termination. Entek is an Oregonbased company that manufactures polyethylene battery separators. On appeal, Dawson argues that the district court erred when it applied the McDonnell Douglas Corp.... More...    $0 (01-11-2011 - OR)

Nancy E. Petock v. ASANTE fka Asante Health Systems dba Rogue Valley Medical Center

Defendant petitions for reconsideration of our decision in Petock v. Asante, 237 Or App 113, 240 P3d 56 (2010), a case involving "the interplay between the 'Unlawful Discrimination Against Injured Workers' statutes, ORS 659A.040 to 659A.052, and workers' compensation law." Id. at 115. In that decision, we considered two issues. First, we addressed "whether a compensable aggravation of a prior c... More...    $0 (11-17-2010 - OR)

Emerald Steel Fabricators, Inc. v. Bureau of Labor and Industries

The Oregon Medical Marijuana Act authorizes persons holding a registry identification card to use marijuana for medical purposes. ORS 475.306(1). It also exempts those persons from state criminal liability for manufacturing, delivering, and possessing marijuana, provided that certain conditions are met. ORS 475.309(1). The Federal Controlled Substances Act, 21 USC § 801 et seq., prohibits the... More...    $0 (04-15-2010 - OR)

Joseph S. Livingston v. Metropolitan Pediatrics, L.L.C.; Heather M. Moore, M.D.; Dean A. Moshofsky, M.D.; Karen H. Lickteig, M.D.; Gwynneth G. Neace, D.O.: Ricahrd Barsotti, M.D.; Gaile A. Rydell, M.D.; Catherine Thomas; PMP; Karen Heichelheim; Mary Kay Brady; and Nicole Huyck, aka Nichole Powers

Plaintiff brought common-law claims against defendants for wrongful discharge, breach of contract, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and intentional interference with economic relations, and brought statutory claims of employment discrimination, ORS 659A.230 (whistleblowing),(1) and blacklisting, ORS 659.805.(2) This is an interlocutory appeal of an order denying defendants' motion t... More...    $0 (03-03-2010 - OR)

Jill Traxler v. Multnomah County

This case presents two issues concerning damages under the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 (“FMLA”). 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601-2654 (2006). In an issue of first impression, we consider whether the court, rather than the jury, determines the amount of the front pay award1 and whether the district court’s calculation of that award was clearly erroneous. Second, we address whether the district court... More...    $0 (02-26-2010 - OR)

Paul L. Haynes v. Adair Homes, Inc.

Designation of prevailing party revised to designate respondents Paul and Renee Haynes as prevailing party on appeal; appellant's petition for attorney fees denied; respondents' petition for attorney fees allowed in the amount of $64,015.43.

LANDAU, J.

Defendant appealed a supplemental judgment that awarded plaintiffs attorney fees, arguing that (1) the court should not have awarded... More...
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Kris Indergard v. Georgia-Pacific Corporation

Kris Indergard (“Indergard”) appeals a summary judgment in favor of Georgia-Pacific Corporation (“GP”) in her action for damages under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and Oregon disability law. GP argues that there was no error in the district court, and that Indergard failed to exhaust administrative remedies under the ADA. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 129... More...    $0 (09-29-2009 - OR)

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