Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with using a residential property he did not own as collateral for obtaining a bank loan worth more than $316,000.


On or about February 17, 2017, Alireza Zamanizadeh, aka Ali Zamani, 63, filed a quitclaim deed in Deschutes County, transferring a residential property in Bend, Oregon to his business for one dollar w... More...    $0 (05-10-2022 - OR)

Portland, OR - Former Bank of Oswego Executive Receives Federal Prison Sentence for Fraud

U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Simon sentenced Geoffrey S. Walsh, a former vice president of the Bank of Oswego, to 30 months in federal prison followed by a three-year term of supervised release. Walsh had previously pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to make false entries in bank ... More...    $0 (01-29-2018 - OR)

Defendants David Soyster, Joy Soyster, and James
Idle appeal from a general judgment granting declaratory
relief to plaintiff Macadam Bay Homeowners Association
(Macadam Bay). On appeal, defendants assign error to the
trial court’s grant of Macadam Bay’s motion for summary
judgment. Defendants contend that the trial court incorrectly
concluded, as a matter of law, that defe... More...    $0 (06-01-2017 - OR)

Defendants Richard Niday and Rebecca Lewis
appeal a general judgment of judicial foreclosure of a residential
deed of trust. The trial court granted summary
judgment to plaintiff on its claim of judicial foreclosure after
determining that there was no genuine issue of material fact
that plaintiff was the holder of the promissory note signed
by defendants and that defendants... More...    $0 (02-15-2017 - OR)

Marshall Johnson is the beneficiary of a right to
periodic payments under a structured settlement agreement.
Petitioner J. G. Wentworth Originators, LLC (J. G.
Wentworth) brought this special proceeding under ORS
33.857 to 33.875 (2005),1 seeking to purchase at a discount
Johnson’s right to one future annuity payment and a portion
of a future lump sum payment. The trial cou... More...    $0 (03-01-2017 - OR)

Plaintiffs Neal and Nancy Kaste operate a dairy
farm in Tillamook County, and contracted with defendant,
Land O’Lakes Purina Feed LLC, to provide them with feed
for their dairy cows. That feed sickened a number of plaintiffs’
cows and killed others, causing plaintiffs to incur veterinary
expenses to care for the cows as well as other losses.
Plaintiffs sued defendant, alleg... More...    $0 (03-08-2017 - OR)

Because this is an equitable case, the Court of Appeals, “acting in its sole discretion, may try the cause anew upon the record or make one or more factual findings anew upon the record.” ORS 19.415(3)(b). No party has requested that we exercise our discretion to review de novo. Nevertheless, as explained below, 272 Or App at 635, the trial court’s interpretation of the parties’ settlement agreeme... More...    $0 (08-03-2015 - OR)

Husband appeals a general judgment of dissolution, seeking a modification of the property division and spousal support award. He asserts that the trial court erred when it (1) miscalculated the amount of money that wife withdrew from the parties’ joint bank accounts, and failed to account for that amount in the property division; (2) failed to account, in the property division, for $165,000 worth ... More...    $0 (07-15-2015 - OR)

EUGENE, OR - Shane Reed, 53, of Rogue River, Oregon, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Eugene to willfully failing to pay $125,000 in federal income taxes. He was sentenced to five years of probation.

Reed admitted that in 2006, 2007 and 2008 he filed U.S. Income Tax returns reporting a total of $880,000. Based on that income he owed $129,000 in income taxes and did not pay those... More...    $0 (05-13-2015 - OR)

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)

Wife appeals a judgment of dissolution, challenging
the trial court’s division of the parties’ property, spousal
support award to her, and determination of child support.
She contends that the property division was inequitable
because the trial court based its decision on erroneous findings
of fact and awarded husband too great a share of the
parties’ marital property... More...    $0 (02-11-2015 - OR)

2 Plaintiff owns a parcel of real property in Crook County. He filed a
3 declaratory judgment action in February 2009 against adjoining landowners seeking to
4 establish that he has an easement over their property for access to his property. He
5 appeals a general judgment declaring that express easements exist on the property of two
6 defendants, that those easements are not appur... More...    $0 (02-12-2014 - OR)

2 This civil case arises out of an ownership dispute concerning a piece of real
3 property, which plaintiff and defendant each assert that they own, and exchanges of
4 money between the parties. Plaintiff appeals from a limited judgment entered by the trial
5 court after the court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment on plaintiff's
6 claims for declaratory relief, fraud,... More...    $0 (12-11-2013 - OR)

Bela and Eva Lengyel sued JPMorgan Chase on a breach of contract theory claiming that they were damaged by the failure of JPMorgan Chase to refinance their home in Hillsboro, Oregon. They claimed that they were advise to fault on the note that they had signed and that after doing so they could refinance the note. Bela Lengyel claimed that the contacted the bank in 2008 seeking to lower the month... More...    $10850 (07-19-2013 - Or)

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)

2 This is the second of two cases this court decides today that is concerned
3 with the nonjudicial foreclosure of trust deeds under the Oregon Trust Deed Act (OTDA)
4 and the mortgage finance industry's practice of naming the Mortgage Electronic
5 Recording System, Inc., (MERS), rather than the lender, as a trust deed's "beneficiary."
6 In Brandrup v. ReconTrust Co., __ Or __, ___... More...    $0 (06-06-2013 - OR)

2 Wife appeals a dissolution judgment, challenging the trial court's property
3 division. In particular, wife quarrels with two components of the trial court's property
4 division. First, wife contends that the equalizing payment included in the judgment was
5 too large based on the trial court's incorrect "finding that the parties had a $33,600 debt
6 on their home." Wife also ass... More...    $0 (05-15-2013 - OR)

2 Plaintiffs Spitz and the Jeffrey Todd Whyle-Spitz Irrevocable Trust (the
3 trust) appeal a general judgment in a declaratory judgment action that concluded that
4 their ownership interest in residential real property had been terminated by a trust deed
5 foreclosure sale. Plaintiffs contend that the trial court erred in denying them their
6 requested declaration that the foreclos... More...    $0 (08-29-2012 - OR)

2 Defendant appeals from the denial of her motion to quash a notice of
3 restitution in this forcible entry and detainer (FED) action. This case poses the issue
4 whether the filing of a supersedeas undertaking on appeal pursuant to ORS 19.335(2)
5 tolls the 60-day limit on issuance of process to enforce a judgment for restitution of
6 premises under ORS 105.159(3). We affirm.
... More...    $0 (09-26-2012 - OR)

2 Husband appeals a dissolution judgment, challenging the trial court's
3 property division and decision to award wife a portion of her attorney fees. Husband
4 contends that the court unjustly required him to pay certain debts without giving him a
5 balancing award of other property. He also argues that the court improperly awarded
6 attorney fees without giving him an adequate op... More...    $0 (07-25-2012 - OR)

2 Wife appeals from a general judgment dissolving the parties' marriage. She
3 challenges the trial court's division of the parties' property, in particular, a rental house
4 (the Cedar Street property); husband's accounting practice (the CPA practice); husband's
5 interest in a family partnership, Hanscam Properties Limited Partnership (HPLP); and a
6 1972 Porsche car. She argues ... More...    $0 (12-14-2011 - OR)

2 Husband appeals a dissolution judgment, challenging the trial court's
3 division of marital property. Husband argues that the trial court erred when it failed to
4 award him 50 percent of the marital property and, further, that the division of the marital
5 property was not just and proper. The disputed marital property includes real property
and annuities. On de novo review, ORS... More...    $0 (12-14-2011 - OR)

Wife appeals the trial court's supplemental judgment terminating husband's maintenance spousal support obligation to wife. Wife argues that several findings of fact that the trial court made did not comport with uncontroverted evidence, that those erroneous findings infected the trial court's conclusion that spousal support should be terminated, and that, in any event, the trial court erred in ret... More...    $0 (06-29-2011 - OR)

On November 6, 2006, a tree fell on the Dodson home, causing extensive damage that ultimately required the payment of major repair costs. This litigation arises from the unusual circumstance that, at the time of the loss, the Dodsons had in effect two separate homeowners' insurance policies that, by their terms, covered the loss. The first, issued by defendant, was taken out in April 2006. The sec... More...    $0 (06-15-2011 - OR)

Plaintiff Butler Block, LLC (Butler Block) appeals, assigning error to the trial court's allowance of summary judgment in favor of defendant Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet). On appeal, Butler Block raises a single assignment of error, contending that the trial court erred in granting summary judgment to TriMet because there are issues of material fact as to wheth... More...    $0 (04-27-2011 - OR)

In this civil action alleging claims of fraud, misrepresentation, conversion, and unfair labor practices, plaintiff appeals an order of the trial court setting aside a general judgment and order of default on the ground of excusable neglect. ORCP 71 B(1)(a). Plaintiff contends that the undisputed facts do not support the conclusion that defendants' default was the result of excusable neglect. We r... More...    $0 (01-12-2011 - OR)

Wife appeals the trial court's dissolution judgment, assigning error to the court's spousal support award and property division. We reject her contentions concerning spousal support without discussion and write only to address wife's argument that, when dividing the parties' property, the trial court erred by valuing husband's retirement accounts (the "Retirement Income Plan" and the "Savings Plan... More...    $0 (01-19-2011 - OR)

The trial court granted defendant's motion to set aside a default judgment on plaintiffs' personal injury claim pursuant to ORCP 71 B(1)(a) ("mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect"), and plaintiffs appeal, contending that defendant failed to establish a basis for relief from the default judgment. Defendant argued to the trial court that relief should be allowed because of his mist... More...    $0 (09-29-2010 - OR)

Plaintiffs, who are licensed construction contractors, appeal a judgment denying their claim for foreclosure of a construction lien and awarding them damages for breach of contract or quantum meruit in the amount of $40,000.(1) They assert two assignments of error. First, they argue that the trial court erred in concluding that their construction lien was invalid because they had failed to deliv... More...    $0 (07-07-2010 - OR)

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)

Plaintiff initiated this action against his former employer, defendant City of Portland, for indemnity of expenses that plaintiff incurred in defending an action that had been brought against him in federal court. The city moved for summary judgment on a variety of grounds, including that plaintiff is estopped from seeking indemnity in this case given the position that he successfully asserted in... More...    $0 (08-19-2009 - OR)

Defendant appeals a judgment enforcing an oral agreement for the conveyance of an interest in real property. Although defendant advances seven assignments of error, we write only to address defendant's contention that the statute of frauds prohibits the agreement's enforcement, rejecting defendant's other assignments of error without discussion. Because we conclude that plaintiff demonstrated pa... More...    $0 (04-15-2009 - OR)

On appeal in this dissolution of marriage case, husband challenges the trial court's property distribution and its award of spousal support to wife. In particular, he asserts that the trial court erred in allocating to him the financial responsibility for the majority of the credit card debt incurred by the parties, in awarding wife the marital residence, in treating husband's half interest in th... More...    $0 (01-28-2009 - OR)

Respondents(1) appeal a judgment entering two permanent stalking protective orders (SPOs), a money judgment, and an order certifying compliance with federal domestic violence firearm laws, 18 USC § 922(d)(8), (g)(8). On review, we conclude that the evidence is insufficient to support the entry of SPOs against either respondent, and, accordingly, we reverse.

We review the facts supporting ... More...    $0 (01-28-2009 - OR)

Defendants appeal from a judgment directing the partition by division of real property that the original parties held as tenants in common.(1) The issue presented on appeal is whether real property that was owned by one of the original cotenants and his wife and that adjoined the partitioned property could be considered in assessing the potential use and value of the partitioned property in order... More...    $0 (01-28-2009 - OR)

Petitioner, a licensed real estate salesperson, seeks judicial review of a final order of the Real Estate Commissioner (the commissioner) reprimanding her for violating ORS 696.301(1) and ORS 696.805(2)(c) during her representation of a seller in a real estate transaction.(1) The commissioner concluded that two separate violations occurred when petitioner, as the selling agent, failed to disclose... More...    $0 (11-05-2008 - OR)

Defendant James Phillip Daily (Daily) contracted to sell real property to plaintiff Brian Cessnun (Cessnun). The transaction did not close, and Daily subsequently agreed to sell the property to defendants Jerry and Elaine Howe (the Howes). Cessnun brought an action to compel specific performance of his earnest money contract with Daily and for a declaration that his right to purchase the property ... More...    $0 (10-17-2008 - OR)

Plaintiff, personal representative of the estate of Philip R. Ballard (Ballard),(1) appeals a judgment for defendants City of Albany (city), Linn County (county), and the State of Oregon and the Oregon State Police (OSP) on plaintiff's negligence and battery claims. Plaintiff sought damages for personal injuries suffered during a traffic stop when police officers used a police dog to remove him fr... More...    $0 (08-13-2008 - OR)