Oregon Liens Law

Kenneth A. Thomas v. Wasco County

Petitioner Kenneth Thomas appeals from judgments of the circuit court dismissing his petition for a writ of review and his second amended complaint seeking a declaratory judgment.1 The proceedings arise out of petitioner’s objections to an order of the Wasco County Board of Commissioners granting a permit for an “outdoor mass gathering” to petitioner’s neighbor. ORS... More...

$0 (03-01-2017 - OR)

United States of America v. Ronald Joling and Dorothea Joling

Eugene, OR - Oregon Couple Sentenced to Prison for Tax Crimes Long Term Tax Protesters Fled Oregon After Being Convicted at Trial A Coos County couple was sentenced to federal prison for tax crimes they were convicted of in October 2014. Ronald Joling, 72, and Dorothea Joling, 73, both of Coquille, Oregon, were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the United States by ... More...

$0 (12-11-2015 - OR)

5W LLC v. Caplan Landlord, LLC

Defendants Bruce Wood and Glenn Smith each executed a guaranty agreement in connection with a $6.9 million loan for a commercial real estate project. After the borrower’s successor, Caplan Landlord, LLC, defaulted on that loan, defendants failed to pay the debt under their guaranties. Plaintiff CML-OR 5th, LLC,1 a Florida limited liability company and the assignee of the underlying promissory no... More...

$0 (09-29-2015 - OR)

Thein Htaike v. Rosalind Sein a/k/a Daw Myint Myint Sein

Plaintiffs filed this action seeking recovery of over $200,000 on the general theory that defendants had secured a series of promissory notes at exorbitant interest rates from plaintiffs through loansharking. Over the years, plaintiffs paid substantial sums on those notes but, despite repeated requests from plaintiffs, defendants never gave them an accounting of how much th... More...

$0 (02-25-2015 - OR)

United States of America v. David Schrader

PORTLAND, OR â€“ David Schrader, 47, of Portland, Oregon, was sentenced October 1 by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Jones to 46 months in prison for the crime of wire fraud and ordered to pay over $1.4 million in restitution to DAT Solutions (formerly Transcore), the victim of his crime. As summarized in the October 2 press release on this matter, Schrader had been employed as the Senio... More...

$0 (10-15-2014 - OR)

United States of America v. Mark Timothy Ellis

EUGENE, OR â€“ On Wednesday, April 16, 2014, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Mark Timothy Ellis, 38, of Oregon City, Oregon, for making a fraudulent claim to the United States and for filing a false lien against a federal employee to serve 12 months and one day in prison and three years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay $311,459 in restitution. According to court do... More...

$0 (04-18-2014 - Or)

Bart G. Brandrup v. Recontruct Company, N.A.

These cases come before this court on four certified questions of law from 2 the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. See Brandrup v. ReconTrust 3 Co., 352 Or 320, 287 P3d 423 (2012) (accepting certified questions); ORS 28.200 to 4 28.255 (providing procedure for certifying questions to the Oregon Supreme Court and 5 authorizing court to answer certified questions). The questio... More...

$0 (06-06-2013 - OR)

Deandrae Barber, Sr. v. Corey Green

2 This case is about attorney fees in an action brought to enforce the terms of 3 an insurance settlement agreement on a personal injury claim. The case turns on whether 4 plaintiff or defendant Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Company (Allstate), or 5 both, were the prevailing party. We conclude that plaintiff is the prevailing party, that 6 she was entitled to attorney fe... More...

$0 (02-29-2012 - OR)

Darrell Kaseberg v. Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

2 In this legal malpractice case, we apply the "discovery rule" and decide that 3 the trial court erred in concluding, on defendant's motion for summary judgment, that 4 plaintiff's claim was time-barred. 5 We state the facts adduced by the parties on summary judgment in the light 6 most favorable to plaintiff, the nonmoving party. Hampton Tree Farms, Inc. v. Jewett, 7 320 Or 5... More...

$0 (11-10-2011 - OR)

Laurie Paul v. Providence Health System-Oregon

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)

Valerium Pereira v. Roy Thompson and Thompson & Bogran, P.C.

On appeal, judgment on claim for legal negligence reversed and remanded for new trial with instructions to strike paragraphs 16(a) and 16(b) from plaintiff's complaint; judgment on counterclaim for breach of written contingent fee contract reversed and remanded. On cross-appeal, judgments for directed verdict on slander of title and misuse of civil proceedings claims involving lis pendens and sta... More...

$0 (09-09-2009 - OR)

Tracy A. Kelly v. Todd Lessner

Plaintiff appeals a judgment dismissing her amended complaint for failure to commence her action against defendant within the statute of limitations. ORCP 21 A(9). Our review of an order granting an ORCP 21 A(9) motion to dismiss is limited to the face of the pleadings. In conducting that review, we assume the truth of all allegations in the complaint and give the plaintiff, as the nonmoving pa... More...

$0 (11-19-2008 - OR)

<a href="http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/S52624.htm" target="_new">Carol R. Knapp, et al. v. The City of Jacksonville, Oregon</a>

n this tax case, we decide whether the City of Jacksonville (city) imposed an unconstitutional tax on property, either when it originally adopted an ordinance requiring persons responsible for paying sewer and water bills to pay a public safety surcharge of $15 per unit or when it adopted an amended version of that ordinance. More specifically, we decide whether the original or amended surcha... More...

$0 (01-24-2007 - OR)

<a href="http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/A113858.htm " target="_new">L. H. Morris Electric, Inc., et al, v. Hyundai Semiconductor America, et al, and M+W/Marshall, a joint venture, et al.</a>

Samwoo Naewoe (SN), a Korean corporation, and Samwoo America (SA), its American subsidiary, were named as parties in this complex litigation involving the foreclosure of construction liens recorded against real property and improvements constructed by M+W/Marshall (M+W/M) for Hyundai Semiconductor America, Inc., in Eugene, Oregon. SN and SA appeal from a judgment dismissing their cross-claims a... More...

$0 (03-20-2003 - OR)

<a href="http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/S48493.htm" target="_new">Donald B. Potter v. Schlesser Company Inc</a>

The issue presented in this case is whether plaintiff, an attorney, can enforce an attorney's lien for fees against defendant when plaintiff's client and defendant settled their action without plaintiff's knowledge and without satisfying plaintiff's lien. The Court of Appeals and the trial court concluded that plaintiff could not enforce the lien against defendant. We disagree and reverse the d... More...

$0 (02-21-2003 - OR)

<a href="http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/A112787.htm" target="_new">Safeport, Inc. v. Equipment Roundup & Manufacturing, Inc.</a>

Defendant Equipment Roundup & Manufacturing, Inc., appeals a judgment foreclosing its construction lien. It assigns error to the trial court's denial of its request for attorney fees and to the court's denial of its motion to reopen the record and amend its pleading to comply with statutory requirements for an award of attorney fees. Defendant also assigns error to the trial court's grant of prior... More...

$0 (11-11-2002 - OR)