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The Oregonian | By Aimee Green | February 13, 2019 A McDonald’s worker who says she has repeatedly complained to management to no avail about a female co-worker who has kicked, hit and ridiculed her over the past year filed a $10,000 lawsuit against her employer Wednesday. The last straw? Amber Harrison’s attorney says it came last week, when the co-worker used a half-dozen “sausage” stickers to form the shape of a penis and stuck the graphic depiction to Harrison’s

Willamette Week | By Katie Shepherd | January 27, 2019 A Portland mother is suing local child care provider KinderCare Learning Centers after her 1-year-old daughter allegedly hit her head and suffered a concussion while at daycare. The lawsuit, filed by Phoenix Redman, says her daughter Jordynn was vomiting and drifting in and out of consciousness after being picked up from an Aloha KinderCare center after 5 p.m. on Jan. 23. Redman rushed her daughter to an emergency room, where

The Oregonian | By Aimee Green | January 20, 2019 Less than two weeks after a Portland bar filed a $115,000 lawsuit against one of its former bartenders – for prompting state regulators to temporarily suspend its liquor license – the bar has agreed to drop its lawsuit. An attorney for the bartender, Gunnar Hokan Jorstad, announced Saturday that The Barrel Room has agreed to drop its lawsuit against the 25-year-old. Jorstad was caught drinking on the job last January

The Oregonian | By Aimee Green | January 11, 2019 A Portland bartender who was hit with a $115,000 lawsuit earlier this week for drinking on the job is firing back. Gunnar Hokan Jorstad has hired an attorney and is preparing to ask a Multnomah County Circuit judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by his former employer, the Barrel Room. The suit faults Jorstad for an Oregon Liquor Control Commission decision to suspend the bar’s liquor license for 21

ABC News | Staff Writer | January 04, 2019 An Oregon man is suing Burger King for backing out of a ‘meals for life’ deal. Curtis Brooner says the fast food giant offered the deal because he got locked in the bathroom for more than an hour at a restaurant in Wood Village last month. Brooner’s attorney Michael Fuller told KATU that his client went to pull the door and it wouldn’t open. Fuller said employees gave Brooner “a fly

The Oregonian | By Aimee Green | December 20, 2018 A man is suing Phil Geffner, co-owner of Escape from New York Pizza on Northwest 23rd Avenue, for $250,000, saying the businessman put him in a chokehold and repeatedly slapped him at a Portland Starbucks. Steven Sample, who worked as a handyman fixing up Geffner’s rental properties, said Geffner lost his temper when he met with him about a $1,500 unpaid bill during a meeting over coffee on Dec. 11.

Willamette Week | By Katie Shepherd | December 10, 2018 “Tina Ferri would be alive today if the prison did its job,” says Michael Fuller, one of the lawyers representing the Ferri family in the suit. The daughter of a woman who died from the flu in January today filed a $7.5 million lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Corrections, claiming the prison failed to provide adequate healthcare to women at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. WW first reported the flu

The Oregonian | By Maxine Bernstein | November 9, 2018 A Lewis & Clark Law School student, fresh from completing a consumer protection litigation class during his last semester, began researching betta fish and how to care for them as he considered buying one to celebrate his graduation last spring. By September, after passing the state bar exam, Alex Hostetler, 31, was dismayed to read that the mini aquariums often advertised for the vibrantly colored tropical fish weren’t adequate and

Willamette Week | By Elise Herron | November 07, 2018 Portland Uber driver Joshua Redmond wants $10,000 in damages from scooter company Skip after two riders smashed a scooter into his Subaru and fled the scene. On Nov. 2, he sent a formal demand letter to the San Francisco-based company. It’s the first legal notice in Portland sent to a scooter operator. At 10:30 pm on Oct. 2, Redmond was driving his Subaru Impreza through an intersection near Portland State