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Willamette Week | By Tess Riski | October 28, 2020 In July 2020, federal agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security wielded weapons on the streets of Portland to subdue protesters. In a legal notice filed today, a hotel maintenance worker says those military tactics were also deployed on him. On the afternoon of July 27, Christopher Frison walked to Room 428 at the Residence Inn by Marriott in North Portland with a plunger in hand. He was responding

The Oregonian | By Jayati Ramakrishnan | September 23, 2020 A Portland man has accused Wells Fargo bank of discriminating against him, after he says a banker refused to open a bank account for him after learning he was Black. Paul Dawson filed a lawsuit in Multnomah County on Monday. The “Banking While Black” complaint alleges racial discrimination and seeks injunctive relief from the San Francisco-based bank. The complaint says that on March 26, Dawson called Wells Fargo to ask

The Oregonian | By Aimee Green | September 03, 2020 A woman who says she was intentionally struck in the elbow by a pickup truck sporting pro-police and Trump flags in downtown Portland last Saturday has filed a $45,000 lawsuit against the truck’s driver. According to her lawsuit filed Wednesday, Holli Parulski was peacefully observing a pro-Trump caravan traveling through the city’s core when the truck struck her arm. She was standing in a crosswalk at Southwest Washington Street and

KGW 8 News | Pat Dooris | August 28, 2020 Police charged a Portland landlord with pulling a gun on one his tenants inside the Stewart Hotel in downtown Portland. The incident happened Aug. 13 inside the hotel, which is just above Mary’s Strip Club on Southwest Broadway. The hotel has been the scene of an ongoing dispute between the owners and the low-income residents who lived there. Each side has filed lawsuits against the other. But on Aug. 13,

The Oregonian | By Lizzy Acker | August 01, 2020 Dawn Redlich was in her apartment in Old Town on May 30 watching TV when Portland police used tear gas on protesters outside. It was a temperate night and a little breezy, she said, and gas wafted into her open windows. “The night it happened and into the next afternoon I had a real scratchy nose, itchy throat, burning in the eyes,” she said. Redlich is one of the many

KGW 8 News | By Kyle Iboshi | July 15, 2020 A former worker at a construction site in Eastern Oregon claims she was fired after raising concerns over safety measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Katrina Bryant, 41, did safety compliance at a construction site in Boardman, where Amazon is building a new warehouse. Bryant said her duties included checking the temperature of all workers in their cars before they could enter the job site. She says the

KATU 2 News | Staff Writer | July 01, 2020 The police response to the weeks of protests may end up costing the city of Portland in court. Michael Fuller, an attorney at Underdog Law Office, says he’s filed eight separate lawsuits on behalf of people who claim they were tear gassed, pepper sprayed, and hit with “explosive projectiles.” His clients, who include a teacher, nurse, and student, say the police bureau’s less lethal munitions aren’t appropriate for dealing with

Willamette Week | Tess Riski | June 11, 2020 On March 22, Gov. Kate Brown used her emergency powers to place a moratorium on residential evictions during the pandemic. Despite that order, the owners of Portland’s downtown Stewart Hotel are asking a judge to eject the building’s residents. In February, tenants in the Stewart Hotel sued their building’s owners, alleging squalid conditions, which they say became worse when the property management company Westwind LLC went bankrupt in 2017. The owners

KOIN 6 News | By Elise Haas | May 11, 2020 A Portland man has taken his landlord and the property’s owner to court over what he says are unsafe living conditions at his apartment in Northwest Portland. Brian Jackson started with his first lawsuit against his landlord seeking a couple of months’ rent but a second lawsuit against the president of the company is seeking up to $2.5 million damages. Now Jackson has filed a third lawsuit against the

NBC News | By David Li | March 4, 2020 A woman is suing Chuck E. Cheese, claiming that her hair got caught for 20 minutes in a ticket-counting machine at one of the pizza and entertainment chain’s locations in Oregon. The incident happened on Dec. 8 at a Chuck E. Cheese at 9120 SE Powell Blvd. in Portland, about seven miles east of downtown, according to the lawsuit filed by Ashreana Scott against Texas-based CEC Entertainment. Scott’s hair was