After a two-hour hearing, a judge in Portland, Ore., has nixed a dog rescue organization’s bid to take custody of a grossly overweight dachshund known as Obie, who once tipped…
As an Oregon Supreme Court ruling earlier this year took effect on Thursday, making more than 1,200 ‘ineligible volunteer’ files maintained by the Boy Scouts of America public, the Los…
In a case of reciprocal discipline, the Oregon Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded a lawyer who continued to use a government-paid Westlaw account after he left his job as a…
The Oregon Supreme Court has ordered a Washington County judge to postpone the probation of an U.S. Army Reserve member so that he can deploy with his unit to Afghanistan…
Representing himself and his wife pro se, an Oregon attorney told a municipal court judge that they had built a $100,000 backyard swimming pool without a required wetlands permit because…
The chief judge for the U.S. District Court of Oregon, used some opinion space to criticize higher education, especially law schools, for saddling graduates with oppressive debt.
An inmate in Oregon who was sentenced to death after his second murder conviction and wants to be executed has just won a round in an unusual court battle.
Bridget Budbill didn’t expect to be $150,000 in debt and working a temporary job as a newly minted law graduate from the University of Oregon. But she is.
After making headlines when he publicly proclaimed his innocence and said he had refused to cooperate and wear a wire in a federal investigation, the founder of Broadband Research LLC…
The head of an independent research firm who publicly proclaimed his innocence and said he refused to wear a wire when approached in 2010 by federal agents pursuing a major…
A hotly contested legal battle over the ownership of a mixed-breed dog in Oregon has heated up further, and it now appears possible that neither one of the individuals who…
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