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United States: Oregon General Liability: A Primer - Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Mondaq

This alert will provide a "cheat sheet" for general liability laws and regulations in the State of Oregon. Issues addressed include statutes of limitations, assignment of fault and damages.

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United States: Opening Pandora's Box: Oregon Court Of Appeals Holds That "Any Person" Can Be Held Liable Under Oregon's Aiding And Abetting Statute - Littler Mendelson

Mondaq

and Quicksilver Contracting Company, the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of the plaintiff's "aiding and abetting" discrimination and retaliation claim. On June 23, 2021, in Charlton v. Ed Staub and Sons Petroleum, Inc.

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“Jury finds Madras man guilty of unlawful use of a gun in 2017 road rage encounter on U.S. 26”

HowAppealing

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this decision overturning the conviction, holding that federal prosecutors had improperly “assimilated into federal criminal law Oregon’s unlawful use of a weapon statute” to apply to a a road rage incident on a highway in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in central Oregon.

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Union fees, bar association dues, and the funding of political speech

SCOTUSBlog

Oregon State Bar , the justices are asked to review the use of mandatory attorney dues by the Oregon State Bar to fund political and ideological speech. The challengers are Oregon attorneys who say the state bar uses the mandatory dues to fund legislative advocacy and other speech on matters of public importance.

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Timber industry, federal government battle over preservation of southern Oregon forest

SCOTUSBlog

This week,we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether Barack Obama had the authority as president to expand a national monument in the forests of Oregon into land overseen by the Interior Department. An Oregon-based timber company went to federal court in Oregon to challenge the monument’s expansion.

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Controversial Federal Rioting Law Used to Charge Jan. 6 Defendant

The Crime Report

The rioting statute has provoked debate among defense lawyers, civil liberties advocates and prosecutors after the Justice Department turned broadly to the civil disorder law in 2020 to prosecute protest-related unrest after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.

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Two Million Dollar Fine for Pirate Radio – Don’t Cross the Commission Again After You’ve Been Caught Once, Especially as More Enforcement Appears to be on the Way

Broadcast Law Blog

Using the enforcement tools – particularly the higher fines – authorized by the PIRATE Act passed by Congress in 2020, the FCC proposed a to impose a fine of $2,316,034 on one alleged operator of a pirate radio station in the New York City area, and a fine of $80,000 fine on another operator of a pirate station in Oregon.

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