An insurance company for a Nevada law firm has agreed to pay $6.2 million to settle litigation claiming that by preparing financial documents, attorney David Garcia and his law firm…
An impasse apparently continues between an Oregon state agency and the state-court judge who has ordered that the Department of Human Services post $50,000 bail to bond out a rape…
Concordia University, a private religious-affiliated institution headquartered in Portland, Ore., has hired as the first dean of its planned new law school in Boise, Idaho.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote last year’s 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering the Oregon Supreme Court to reconsider a $79.5 million punitive damages award, a ruling the Oregon justices…
Because an annual World Naked Bike Ride in Portland, Ore., has created a tradition of protesting in this manner, a Multnomah County judge has dismissed an indecent exposure case against…
Once a rising criminal defense star, an embattled attorney in Portland, Ore., who was already facing criminal and legal disciplinary cases was arrested last night and charged with burglary.
An ongoing case over the custody of a deformed deer that has become a family pet was reportedly the subject of an Oregon Court of Appeals hearing yesterday.
When Betty Roberts attended her first judicial conference, a male judge groped her breast. And that was just one of a number of instances of what a newspaper reviewing an…
It’s been so long since a court in Lane County, Oregon, ran out of jurors that the country’s chief judge had to look up a state law that allows on-the-spot…
Updated: A police officer in Portland, Ore., who was cited by an attorney for parking illegally in front of a restaurant has lost his court battle over the infraction.
Richard Bryan Smith happens to share the same name and date of birth as a convicted sex offender. And that has led to several cases of mistaken identity, despite the…
A criminal defense lawyer for 25 years, Phillip Margolin still goes to the office every day in Portland, Ore., at 7:30 a.m. Except now, as a best-selling author of legal…
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