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The Oregonian | By Aimee Green | November 16, 2017 Kevin Mehrens was perturbed after dining at Grand Central Bowling’s bar last month, looking over his receipt and discovering that the business had tacked on an extra 2 percent to his bill. Although the 2 percent amounted to only 40 cents on his $20 check, Mehrens didn’t think it was right. It wasn’t advertised anywhere in downstairs bar or on bar menus at the bowling alley, he says. Mehrens filed

The Oregonian | By Mike Rogoway | November 9, 2017 A lawsuit filed Thursday seeks to recover data and damages from Portland internet service provider Spirit One, whose email service has been largely unaccessible to customers since September 29. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for Oregon, follows Spirit One’s admission this week that it inadvertently gave one customer access to other subscribers’ emails during the prolonged outage. “Our first priority right now is securing the data,” said Portland

USA Today | By Kevin Spain | August 28, 2017 A Portland, Ore., man has filed a class-action lawsuit against Showtime for the poor quality of the Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor fight. The complaint, filed in federal court in Oregon and obtained by USA TODAY Sports, is seeking $200 in statutory damages or actual damages for each person in the action, whichever is greater. Zack Bartel filed the suit because he bought the fight on the Showtime app in

The Oregonian | By Shane Dixon Kavanaugh | August 22, 2017 A Portland woman is suing one of the state’s largest cremation companies after she says it mistakenly gave her the remains of a total stranger instead of her deceased father. Kimberly Grecco, 53, made the ghastly discovery as she prepared to scatter her dad’s ashes off the Oregon coast on Father’s Day last year, according to her lawsuit filed Tuesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court. That’s when she opened

Willamette Week | By Katie Shepherd | August 1, 2017 A Portland woman is suing state Sen. Rod Monroe and C&R Real Estate Services for $3.2 million after she says a leaky roof at his East Portland apartment complex left a puddle on the floor of Red Rose Manor and she slipped in the water. Areli Lopez says in her suit that property managers denied that the roof leaked when she asked about in during a June 2015 move-in inspection.

Time Magazine | By Katie Reilly | July 11, 2017 A woman in Portland, Oregon filed a lawsuit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in federal court on Monday over the department’s recent suspension of new protections for students who borrow money to attend for-profit colleges. Niesha Wright, a 40-year-old mother of two, graduated last year from the now-defunct ITT Technical Institute with what her lawsuit calls “worthless, non-transferable credits and a mountain of student loan debt.” She attended ITT Tech

The Oregonian | By Anna Marum | June 20, 2017 A Portland woman has accused CenturyLink of overcharging her after salespeople came to her door with offers of cheap, superfast internet access, according to a federal lawsuit. The class-action lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Portland by local attorney Michael Fuller and the Los Angeles firm, Geragos & Geragos. The filing come just days after Geragos & Geragos filed a class-action suit accusing the company of defrauding

The Oregonian | By Aimee Green | April 18, 2017 A woman who ended up with holes on the backside of at least three pairs of her LuLaRoe brand leggings has filed a class action lawsuit against the garment manufacturer, asking that a Multnomah County Circuit judge ban the popular brand from selling leggings in Oregon. Terri Doran’s lawsuit states that she splurged on several pairs at $25 a piece, and that each pair developed holes in the buttocks area

The Oregonian | By Jeff Manning | May 13, 2016 A former banker at Wells Fargo claims in a lawsuit that the institution lacked basic loan documentation on an untold number of its mortgages and deceived customers about it. The bank, which operates out of its namesake downtown tower, denies any wrongdoing. A Damascus man claims he was terminated by Wells Fargo & Co. in 2014 after he discovered the bank was repeatedly collecting on mortgage loans for which it

The Oregonian | By Aimee Green | May 3, 2016 In August 2013, Stephanie Banks was battling lung cancer. She also was struggling with her finances. So she turned to Rapid Cash for help. She took out a $300 loan from the payday and title loan lending company with a storefront in Southeast Portland. The annual percentage rate was 153 percent, the most allowed under Oregon law. Soon after, Banks became too weak to work her $15-an-hour job as a