The Oregon Health and Science University Hospital could escape most of a court-ordered $12 million payment to a patient's family because of a state law that limits how much money judges can order publicly-funded entities to pay to plaintiffs who pursue civil...
Month: September 2013
Woman sues Oregon School for the Deaf over reported sex abuse
The Oregon School for the Deaf is the target of a lawsuit alleging that a male student sexually abused a younger female student while the two were in the school's care. The woman who filed the claim, the student's mother, contends that school staff, employees with the...
Federal appeals court rules against northwestern oyster farm
An oyster farm in the northwestern United States will not be receiving a new lease that allows it to operate in the Point Reyes National Seashore, located about 300 miles from the Oregon border. The three-judge panel of a federal appeals court sided with former...
Court sides with ACLU in Oregon no-fly list lawsuit
A U.S. District judge in Oregon shot down the government's argument that individuals who have been placed on the no-fly list maintain all their rights and can travel by other means, instead siding with the American Civil Liberties Union and the 13 individuals it...