An “extremely bored” Oregon juror “just couldn’t take it” anymore and went AWOL at lunchtime after half a day in Washington County Circuit Court, he told the police officers who…
Portland, Ore., is among the cities attracting young well-educated “hipsters” willing to overlook a tough job market to live in a popular place. And some of the new arrivals are…
A CIA agent who pleaded guilty to espionage in 1977 has been indicted on charges that he continued to sell secrets to the Russians from an Oregon federal prison.
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…