Portland, Oregon constitutional law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who challenged Oregon's privacy law.

Project Veritas and Project Veritas Action Fund (collectively, “Project Veritas�) argue that an Oregon
statute prohibiting unannounced recordings of oral conversations violates the First Amendment. Project Veritas
brings as-applied and facial challenges. It contends that ... More...    $0 (01-10-2025 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with depriving another of right by sexual assault,in violation of 18 U.S.C. 242 and false declaration before a court in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1623(a).

Tony Daniel Klein, 38, of Clackamas County, Oregon, sexually assaulted nine female inmates while serving as a nurse at the Coffee Creek Correctional Family, Oregon'... More...    $0 (10-18-2023 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug possession with intent to distribute cocaine.

On December 19, 2022, Defendant, Heraclio Diaz-Sanchez, was driving northbound on I-5 from California. Near Salem, Oregon, Trooper Miller of the Oregon State Police noticed Mr. Diaz-Sanchez's car, a nondescript silver Honda Accord, with a California license p... More...    $0 (09-19-2023 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexually assaulting nine female inmates while serving as a nurse at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Oregon’s only women’s prison.

Tony Daniel Klein, 38, of Clackamas County, was indicted on 17 counts of depriving his victims of their constitutional right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punish... More...    $0 (07-25-2023 - 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)

This review proceeding arises out of a post-judgment
order charging a judgment debtor’s interests in four limited
partnerships and a limited liability company to satisfy the
judgment creditor’s judgment against him. The charging
order was issued over the limited partnerships’ and limited
liability company’s objections that ancillary provisions
included in the charging order... More...    $0 (01-11-2018 - OR)

The question in this case is whether youth was
stopped during the search of a drug house when a detective
came upon youth and a friend in one of the bedrooms, told
youth’s friend to “stay off the meth,” asked them their names,
and then asked whether they had anything illegal on them.
Because the trial court ruled that no stop occurred, it denied
youth’s motion to suppress e... More...    $0 (09-14-2017 - OR)

Eugene, OR - Woman Pleads Guilty in Murder-for-Hire of Ex-Husband

Property Dispute and $150,000 Life Insurance Policy Provided Motivation for Crime

Pamela Jean Gygi, 58, of Westlake, Oregon, pleaded guilty to the use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of a murder for hire and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence before U.S. District Court... More...    $0 (01-23-2017 - OR)

Police officers entered a residence without a warrant and opened a wooden box that they found in a bedroom, believing that they had lawful consent to take each of those actions. Defendant, who was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance based on evidence found in the box, moved to suppress the evidence under Article I, section 9, of the Oregon Constitution, on the ground that th... More...    $0 (01-03-2017 - OR)

In reviewing a denial of a motion for judgment of acquittal, we describe the pertinent facts and all reasonable inferences that may be drawn from those facts in the light most favorable to the state. State v. Walker, 356 Or 4, 6, 333 P3d 316 (2014). In this case, defendant’s son and estranged wife went to defendant’s house to pick up his son’s backpack before school. While defendant’s wife and son... More...    $0 (09-17-2015 - OR)

Defendant appeals a judgment in an action for
battery and negligence arising from an incident in which
defendant engaged in unprotected sexual intercourse with
plaintiff without disclosing that he carries the herpes simplex
virus-2 (HSV-2), commonly known as genital herpes.
Plaintiff consequently became infected with genital herpes
and brought this action. Defendant argues,... More...    $0 (02-11-2015 - OR)

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for one
count of possession of methamphetamine, ORS 475.894,
and one count of erecting a structure on a public right of
way, in violation of Portland City Code (PCC) 14A.50.050.
He assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to
suppress evidence found after a police officer lifted a tarp to
defendant’s makeshift she... More...    $0 (02-11-2015 - OR)

ORS 742.061(1) provides that, if a settlement of an insurance claim is not made “within six months from the date proof of loss is filed with an insurer� and the insured recovers more than any amount that the insurer has tendered, the insured is entitled to an award of attorney fees.

ORS 742.061(3) provides a “safe harborâ€� for the insurer in underinsured motorist (UIM) cases: No atto... More...    $0 (11-30--0001 - OR)

We agreed to hear this case en banc to clarify whether the
statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b) of the Federal
Tort Claims Act (“FTCA�) may be equitably tolled. We hold
that § 2401(b) is not “jurisdictional,� and that equitable
tolling is available under the circumstances presented in this
case.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Statutory Background
The FTCA conta... More...    $0 (10-09-2013 - OR)

Julie Miller sued Equifax Information Services, LLC on a Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681) violation theory claiming to have been injured and harmed as a result of Equifax's failure to "fix" major mistakes on her credit report. She claimed that she called Equifax eight times between 2009 and 2011 in an effort to get the company to correct inaccuracies, including erroneous accounts and col... More...    $18600000 (07-28-2013 - OR)

Husband appeals from a judgment of dissolution
of marriage, arguing that the court erred in dividing
the parties’ retirement benefits, and, specifically, in its
treatment of wife’s federal Civil Service Retirement System
(CSRS) benefits. In particular, husband asserts that the
trial court’s apportionment methodology (described in
detail below) violated 42 USC section ... More...    $0 (04-24-2013 - OR)

WALTERS, J.
In this domestic relations case, we decide that, pursuant to ORS 107.1041 2
and ORS 107.135(15),2 3 a court may enforce an agreement between parents not to seek
4 modification of the child support terms of a stipulated judgment of dissolution unless to
5 do so would violate the law or contravene public policy. We also decide that, in this
6 case, father did not demo... More...    $0 (04-18-2013 - OR)

Rocky Bixby Aaron St. Clair, Adanrolando Garcia, Brian Hedin, Bryon Greer, Charles Ellis, Charles Seamon, Colt Campredon, Dennis Jewell, Dennis Rosgen, Devon Fields, Donald Yeargin, James Borja, James McGowan, Jason Arnold, Jason Blain, Jay Louisiana, Jesus Bruno, John Rydquist, and others sued KBR Technical Services, Inc., KBR, Inc., KBR, Inc., Kellogg, Brown & Root Service, Inc., Overseas Admini... More...    $85000000 (11-03-2012 - OR)

2 The issue in this case is whether a healthcare provider can be liable in
3 damages when the provider's negligence permitted the theft of its patients' personal
4 information, but the information was never used or viewed by the thief or any other
5 person. Plaintiffs claimed economic and noneconomic damages for financial injury and
6 emotional distress that they allegedly suffered... More...    $0 (02-24-2012 - OR)

Petitioner challenges the decision of the Oregon Supreme Court which held that the city of Tigard could condition the approval of her building permit on the dedication of a portion of her property for flood control and traffic improvements. 317 Ore. 110, 854 P.2d 437 (1993). We granted certiorari to resolve a question left open by our decision in Nollan v. California Coastal Comm'n, 483 U.S. 825, ... More...    $0 (06-24-1994 - OR)

2 Plaintiff brought this action for negligence against defendants Kids
3 Incorporated of Dallas, Or (Kids Inc.), and SLD, Inc., dba Dairy Queen of Dallas (Dairy
4 Queen), seeking damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff's ward, Jane Doe, when she
5 was sexually assaulted while attending a car wash fund-raiser sponsored by Kids Inc. at
6 Dairy Queen's restaurant. Defendants each ... More...    $0 (08-31-2011 - OR)

Documents produced in discovery and filed in the bankruptcy court contained allegations that Fathers M and D, two priests who were not parties to the Portland Archdiocese’s bankruptcy case, had sexually abused children. The bankruptcy court held that the discovery documents at issue could be disclosed to the public, because the public’s interest in disclosure of these discovery documents outwe... More...    $0 (09-21-2011 - OR)

These appeals involve two essentially identical actions filed in two different states, Oregon and Washington, by different groups of Plaintiffs, each of which seeks to represent a class.

The actions seek damages on the ground that Plaintiffs’ personal information was obtained by Defendants in violation of the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (“DPPAâ€�), 18 U.S.C. §§ 2721-2725. That s... More...    $0 (08-15-2011 - OR)

Defendants appeal a judgment quieting title to a disputed strip of land in plaintiffs and dismissing defendants' trespass counterclaim, raising five assignments of error. We write to address only one of defendants' assignments of error--viz., that the trial court erred in dismissing defendants' counterclaim for trespass against plaintiff Michel on the ground that her intrusion onto defendants' lan... More...    $0 (03-02-2011 - OR)

In a true-crime book entitled Heart Full of Lies, author Ann Rule described in detail the killing by Liysa Northon of her husband, Christopher Northon. Liysa Northon, together with other members of her family, filed suit in an Oregon court against Rule and her publisher for defamation and false light invasion of privacy. Having already pled guilty to a charge of first degree manslaughter in an Ore... More...    $0 (01-18-2011 - OR)

Plaintiffs brought this class action after unencrypted records containing personal, medical, and financial information of an estimated 365,000 patients were stolen from the car of one of defendant's employees. Plaintiffs alleged that defendant had negligently failed to safeguard those records and that defendant had violated the Unlawful Trade Practices Act (UTPA) by representing that it would kee... More...    $0 (10-06-2010 - OR)

Plaintiff was injured as the result of treatment he received while a patient at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). He brought this action against two of his physicians as well as OHSU and OHSU Medical Group (Medical Group), the latter two in their capacity as the physicians' employers. A jury returned a verdict in favor of one of the physicians, but found that the other, West, was negl... More...    $0 (02-10-2010 - OR)

We are asked to decide whether the actions of a child protective services caseworker and deputy sheriff, understandably concerned for the well-being of two young girls, exceeded the bounds of the constitution. Specifically, the girls’ mother, Sarah Greene, alleges, on behalf of S.G., one of her children, that the caseworker, Bob Camreta, and deputy sheriff, James Alford, violated the Fourth Amen... More...    $0 (12-11-2009 - OR)

This is a second trip to our court for Eric Noel in his more than a decade-long feud with Sandra Hall over a $750 horse, a $5000 mobile home, and tapes of recorded telephone calls. It all started with the horse. In this unhappy chapter of the continuing saga, Noel appeals from summary judgment entered by the District Court of Oregon dismissing his case against Herb Weisser, Hall’s attorney durin... More...    $0 (06-15-2009 - OR)

Plaintiffs-Appellants, John M. Gardner, Susan L. Gardner, and Mt. Hood Polaris, Inc. (collectively “Appellantsâ€�) brought this action against Defendants-Appellees, Tom Martino, Westwood One, Inc., (collectively “Appelleesâ€�) and Clear Channel Communications, Inc.,1 for defamation, false light invasion of privacy, intentional interference with economic relations, and intentional interference ... More...    $0 (04-24-2009 - OR)

In this action alleging negligence and other claims, plaintiffs sought damages from their former landlord for various injuries that, they alleged, had resulted from unhealthful conditions in a dwelling that they rented from that landlord. On defendant's ORCP 21 A(8) motion, the trial court concluded that plaintiffs had failed to state a claim in common-law negligence, that the only claims that pl... More...    $0 (12-31-2008 - OR)

This inverse condemnation case comes to us with a substantial procedural history, an account of which is set out below. Following trial after the latest remand, a jury determined that the state had taken Boise Cascade Corporation's property in violation of the Fifth Amendment by temporarily prohibiting logging and that Boise should be compensated in the amount of $25. Boise appeals and the Oreg... More...    $0 (12-05-2007 - OR)

This case presents a question of law certified to this court by the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. See generally ORS 28.200 to 28.255; Western Helicopter Services v. Rogerson Aircraft, 311 Or 361, 364-71, 811 P2d 627 (1991) (setting out and explaining certification process). The certified question asks whether a 2003 amendment to ORS 30.905, which revives certain pro... More...    $0 (05-31-2005 - OR)

This is an action to recover damages for injuries that plaintiff received during a surgical operation. The issue is whether plaintiff commenced the action after expiration of the two-year period of limitations set out in ORS 12.110(4), quoted below. The trial court concluded that plaintiff's action was time-barred and granted summary judgment, ORCP 47, in favor of defendant Nesler. (1) The Cour... More...    $0 (12-27-2002 - OR)

Defendant was charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants (DUII). (1) He moved to suppress the results of his breath test, arguing that the presence within earshot of the arresting officer when he consulted a lawyer by telephone before taking the breath test violated his right to counsel under the Oregon Constitution. The trial court denied defendant's motion to suppr... More...    $0 (02-13-2003 - OR)

"Does an insurer have a duty to defend an insured under an insurance policy with an 'intentional acts' exclusion if the complaint against the insured alleges a subjective intent to harm but the claim could be proven through unintentional conduct... More...    $0 (05-01-2003 - OR)

The issue in these consolidated criminal cases is whether a search warrant that purported to authorize a search of defendants' residence contained sufficient particularity to satisfy Article I, section 9, of the Oregon Constitution. The trial court held that the warrant met constitutional requirements, denied defendants' motions to suppress evidence found as a result o... More...    $0 (08-14-2003 - OR)

This case calls upon us to determine when parties other than the original litigants may gain access to materials that a court has placed under protective seal. Private and Public Intervenors appeal. Private Intervenors appeal from the district court's refusal to unseal discovery materials and court records. Public Intervenors appeal from the dismissal of their second motion to unseal docum... More...    $0 (06-19-2003 - OR)