Following a confrontation between an adjunct law professor at the University of Oregon and campus demonstrators his name has been removed from the school’s website directory.
An Oregon judge was censured (PDF) by the Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday for comments he made when sentencing a defendant to life in prison for his sexual…
Apparently agreeing with a retired Oregon judge’s complaint that a sitting district attorney and a defense lawyer used an “undeniably invalid order” when committing a mentally ill man to the…
A settlement has been reached concerning a medical insurance coverage lawsuit brought by an Oregon Court of Appeals clerk, who argued that the state discriminated by refusing to provide an…
The founder of a Portland, Ore.-based independent research firm, John Kinnucan, made headlines in 2010 when he publicly announced that he had refused an FBI request to wear a wire…
Two 22-year-old men committed no crime this week by openly carrying assault rifles, slung over their shoulders, in a residential neighborhood of Portland, Ore., known for its row of antique…
Initially, it was reported that police planned to pursue no charges against 11- and 7-year-old boys who have been accused of attempting to carjack a vehicle at gunpoint in a…
Two leading corporate lawyers in Portland, Ore., are awaiting the results in an unusual legal ethics case, pursued a decade after the fact, concerning a claimed conflict in their representation…
In a one-year period between Oct. 1, 2011 and Sept. 30, a Portland, Ore., transit agency issued only 23 bans to riders because they allegedly made excessive noise.
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…
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