Portland, Oregon employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff, a Portland Police Officer, challenges the denial of his claim for disability benefits for duty-related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).


Petitioner began working as a Portland police officer in 2001. Medical records show that in 2015, petitioner began discussing anxiety and other mental health concerns wi... More...    $0 (11-27-2024 - OR)

Tigard Repeat Offender Sentenced to Federal Prison for Transporting a Victim Across State Lines for Illegal Sexual Activity and Launderi... More...    $0 (05-07-2024 - OR)

Portland, Oregon Consumer credit lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on Fair Debt Collection Act violation theories.

"The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) is a federal law that protects consumers from abusive, deceptive, and unfair debt collection practices. It applies to third-party debt collectors, which are companies or individuals that collect debts on ... More...    $1 (10-20-2023 - OR)

Eugene, Oregon employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a wrongful denial of E.R.I.S.A. employee benefits.

This case, alleging claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISAâ€�), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., comes before the Court on cross-motions filed by Defendant PacificSource Health Plans (“PacificSourceâ€�), ECF No. 38; by Defenda... More...    $0 (09-28-2023 - OR)

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...    $0 (09-27-2023 - OR)

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...    $0 (07-25-2023 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaing in a multiyear scheme to evade the payment of payroll and income taxes on the wages of construction workers.

Melesio Gomez-Rivera, 49, of Aloha, Oregon, owned and operated a residential construction company called Novatos Construction. From January 2014 until December 2017, Gomez-Rivera and several other c... More...    $0 (05-31-2023 - OR)

Portland, Oregon social security disability lawyer represented Plaintiff seeking review of the denial of his applicaiton for social security disability benefits.


Plaintiff applied for Title II Disability Insurance Benefits (DIB) on March 22, 2019, alleging disability beginning January 1, 2014. (Tr. 175.) His claim was initially denied on August 1, 2019, and again upon reconsideration... More...    $0 (05-15-2023 - OR)

Portland, Oregon employment law lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a wrongful failure to pay E.R.I.S.A.-Employee Benefits. ... More...    $0 (04-28-2023 - OR)

Spokane, Washington criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief funding for small businesses.

On March 27, 2020, the President signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARESâ€�) Act. The CARES Act provided a number of programs through which eligible small businesses could request and obtain relief funding intende... More...    $0 (08-16-2022 - OR)

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with theft of government funds.

Katie Jo Thompson, age 31, cared for her disabled child while also operating a licensed childcare business out of her Roseburg residence. Thompson applied for various federal benefit programs administered by the Special Security Administration (SSA) on her child’s behalf. In these applic... More...    $0 (07-28-2022 - OR)

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

Pendleton, Oregon employment law lawyer represented Plaintiff, Jon Stain, who sued Valley Paving & Asphalt, Inc. on a civil rights Americans With Disabilities Act violation theory claiming to have suffered more than $500,000 in damages and/or injuries.... More...    $0 (03-30-2021 - OR)

Portland, Oregon tax law criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with evading payment of employment taxes and personal income taxes.

Thomas A. Rennie, Age 58, of Battle Ground, Washington, and formerly of Portland, Oregon, operated a car detailing business in Portland for 28 years, and a dog training business in Washington since 2015. Rennie knowingly and intentionally eva... More...    $0 (11-19-2020 - OR)

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)

Eugene, OR - Jennifer Wheeler sued Safeway, Inc. on a personal injury negligence theory.

The Complaint filed by Ms. Wheeler stated in part:

For Plaintiff Jenna Wheeler’s claims for relief against Defendant Safeway, Inc., Plaintiff states:
Parties
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Defendant Safeway, Inc., is a foreign corporation incorporated in Delaware and with its princi... More...    $0 (05-09-2018 - OR)

Portland, OR - Belinda Jackson sued U.S. Bank on employment law violation theories including retaliation for firing her for complaining about colleges playing the game hangman as part of a team-building exercise and for not paying her $135 in wages. She claimed that the playing of the game was racially motivated.

U.S. Bank denied that there was any racial animus associated with the use o... More...    $31000 (03-20-2018 - OR)

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...    $0 (01-31-2018 - OR)

ORS 408.230(2)(c) requires a public employer to
“devise and apply methods” of giving veterans and disabled
veterans “special consideration” in the employer’s hiring
process when that hiring process does not rank applicants
by means of a score. The issue in this case is whether the
Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office (county) complied with
that requirement when it failed to pr... More...    $0 (08-10-2017 - Or)

The issue presented is whether an adult foster care
provider claiming unjust enrichment may recover the reasonable
value of its services from a defendant who, through
fraud, obtained a lower rate from the provider for the services.
We conclude that, generally, a defendant who obtains
discounted services as a result of fraud is unjustly enriched
to the extent of the reasonab... More...    $0 (11-09-2017 - OR)

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...    $0 (09-29-2017 - OR)

Portland, OR - Former Supervisor at Portland, Oregon-Area Manufacturing Company Pleads Guilty for Role in Product Certification Fraud Scheme

On July 25, 2017, a former supervisor at an aluminum extrusion manufacturing company in the Portland, Oregon, area pleaded guilty for his role in a decade-long scheme involving the fraudulent certification of mechanical properties for parts manufactu... More...    $0 (07-27-2017 - OR)

In this wage-claim case, defendant appeals the
trial court’s award of attorney fees under ORS 652.200(2)
and ORS 652.615. Plaintiff was a commercial truck driver
who sued defendant, his former employer, for failing to pay
wages that it owed plaintiff, and for withholding a small
sum from his paycheck, albeit with his consent. The trial
court transferred plaintiff’s case to ... More...    $0 (06-01-2017 - OR)

Wife appeals a general judgment of dissolution,
raising two assignments of error. In her first assignment
of error, wife argues that the trial court erred in its award
of spousal maintenance support; wife raises two arguments
concerning the amount and timing of the award. In
her second assignment of error, wife argues that the trial
court erred in setting child support base... More...    $0 (06-01-2017 - OR)

In this wrongful discharge case, plaintiff appeals
the trial court’s judgment in favor of plaintiff’s former
employer, defendant Washington County.1 Plaintiff asserts
that the trial court erred when it granted a directed verdict
to the county based on its conclusion that plaintiff was
not fulfilling an important public duty, which is a required
element of a wrongful dischar... More...    $0 (02-08-2017 - OR)

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...    $0 (02-01-2017 - OR)

Claimant was injured while working for Wend
Magazine in part as an unpaid intern and in part on commission.
Because Wend was a noncomplying employer, the
Workers’ Compensation Board reasoned that it could not
determine a weekly wage for claimant, and it therefore
awarded her the statutory minimum temporary disability
benefit of $50 per week. See ORS 656.210 (specifications<... More...    $0 (04-09-2017 - OR)

Petitioner seeks judicial review of an order by the
Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) affirming the adoption
of two ordinances by respondent Jackson County. Those ordinances
amended the county’s Land Development Ordinance
(LDO) to establish, among other things, the types of land on
which medical and commercial marijuana cultivation would
be permitted. In the first of her two... More...    $0 (03-08-2017 - OR)

Plaintiff was seriously injured when he was hit by
a car while crossing South Riverside Avenue at its intersection
with Ninth Street in Medford. There are no traffic signals
controlling that intersection, but the City of Medford
has installed a crosswalk across South Riverside Avenue on
the south side of the intersection. Plaintiff was in that crosswalk
when he was hit, and... More...    $0 (03-29-2017 - OR)

The issue in this workers’ compensation case is
whether claimant is entitled to benefits for his “combined
condition” claim. Under ORS 656.005(7)(a)(B), a “combined
condition” exists when an “otherwise compensable injury”
combines with a preexisting condition, and the otherwise
compensable injury remains the major contributing cause
of that combined condition.1 In this case... More...    $0 (03-30-2017 - OR)

Spokane, WA - Former Vice Principle of Lake Roosevelt Elementary School Sentenced to Seven Years in Federal Prison for Receipt of Child Pornography

Nathan Piturachsatit, age 38, of Grand Coulee, Washington, was sentenced, after having previously pleaded guilty on November 29, 2016 to Receipt of Child Pornography. United States District Judge Salvador Mendoza Jr. sentenced Piturachsatit to... More...    $0 (03-13-2017 - OR)

Portland, OR - Former Government Employee Convicted of Defrauding Department of Veterans Affairs

Judge Also Orders Restitution for Welfare Fraud and Threatens Maximum Sentence if Probation is Violated

A former employee of the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office and the Oregon Department of Justice was sentenced to probation for his theft of more than $56,000 from the U.S... More...    $0 (10-23-2016 - OR)

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)

The pertinent facts in this matter are uncontested. In January 2011, defendant was indicted on 21 felony counts, including nine counts of aggravated murder, for allegedly causing the death of Rainier Police Chief Ralph Painter. Shortly after defendant was indicted, his attorneys became concerned about his ability to aid and assist in his defense. The defense hired a psychiatrist, Dr. Larsen, to ev... More...    $0 (10-09-2015 - OR)