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KGW 8 News | By Jared Cowley | October 21, 2019 A class action lawsuit was filed Monday against Safeway, accusing the grocery store corporation of charging customers a 1% fee to pay for a tax the city is charging large retailers to help pay for Portland’s clean energy initiative. The tax, which began Jan. 1, 2019, applies to large retailers with gross income from retail sales of $1 billion or more in the U.S. and $500,000 in the City

The Oregonian | By Aimee Green | October 15, 2019 The mother of a 3-month-old baby who died in the 1990s has filed a $5 million lawsuit against the Oregon cemetery where her daughter was buried. She says she recently learned workers cracked open her daughter’s casket years ago, but failed to own up to it. Janine Karvia’s lawsuit claims that workers at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in The Dalles created a gaping hole in one end of her daughter’s

The Oregonian | By Everton Bailey Jr. | October 11, 2019 AT&T said Friday it will give refunds to customers wrongly charged a fee in the name of Portland’s 1% clean energy tax on large businesses. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Friday morning that AT&T had collected the fee from its customers even though the new tax does not apply to the phone provider. Willamette Week first reported on the charges in August. The company wouldn’t say how many people will be

The Today Show | By Michelle Gant | October 8, 2019 It isn’t uncommon for a coffee shop employee to occasionally mess up a latte order, but Starbucks is now being sued after a barista’s alleged mistake left a man in the hospital. Max Scher, a 34-year-old based in Portland, Oregon, is suing the coffee chain for $10,000 after he claims he was served a coffee drink made with almond milk instead of soy milk. Scher says he suffers from

Willamette Week | By Sophie Peel | October 3, 2019 A Portland couple are suing McDonald’s for negligence, saying an employee at the fast food franchise was waiting shirtless for them in the parking lot and assaulted them when they went outside. Cory Whitfield and his fiance, Shaundra Graves, filed the lawsuit in Multnomah County Circuit Court this morning. What led to the lawsuit? “Burnt hash browns, apparently,” says 42-year old Whitfield. Whitfield and Graves were visiting the Portland MacDonald’s

The Oregonian | By Jayati Ramakrishnan | September 26, 2019 A Portland woman has filed a lawsuit against a local restaurant, claiming the place she had frequented with her white colleagues treated her differently when she and her family, who are black, came to the restaurant. Krystal Menefee filed a complaint Tuesday against Thatcher’s Restaurant and Lounge, alleging racial discrimination. Menefee doesn’t seek any money but is requesting a jury trial to determine whether Thatcher’s discriminated against her. Thatcher’s has

NBC News | By Kalhan Rosenblatt | September 7, 2019 The estate of an Oregon man who was wrongly accused by a Target employee of possessing child pornography is suing the retail giant for $1 million, claiming negligence, false arrest and intentional infliction of emotional distress, according to a complaint. Jeffrey Buckmeyer was accused by an employee at a Target store in Tigard, Oregon, in July 2018 of having child-abuse or child-pornography materials on his mobile phone, the complaint filed

The Oregonian | By Maxine Bernstein | September 03, 2019 An identity thief opened a Wells Fargo car loan account in the name of Matthew Sponer, bought a BMW at a used car dealership in Southern California in July 2016, was caught that fall and convicted several months later. Despite repeated attempts by Sponer and his lawyer to get his bank to delete the $29,000 debt that his credit report showed he owed for the car loan, Wells Fargo didn’t

The Oregonian | By Aimee Green | August 28, 2019 A woman is suing her family’s dentist office in Bend after she says she was told she wasn’t welcome to nurse her 16-month-old son while the dentist pulled a tooth from her 5-year-old daughter. Kalee Kellough, a 31-year-old La Pine resident, has asked a judge to declare that Willamette Dental Group’s Bend office unlawfully discriminated against her based on her sex. “Under Oregon law, women have the right to breast-feed

The Oregonian | By Diana Kruzman | August 14, 2019 Leeland and Diane Smith of Tigard never expected they would have to euthanize their 4-year-old beagle Dixie less than a year after adopting her. A neurological illness set in less than a year after they adopted the dog last October, and in late July the couple called a private company to put Dixie down at their home. The company, Dignified Pet Services, also promised to cremate Dixie privately and return