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The Oregonian | By Zaeem Shaikh | April 08, 2025 Portland Mayor Keith Wilson will ask the city attorney’s office to drop the city’s appeal of a $1 million award to the family of a man shot and killed by police while he was experiencing a mental health crisis in 2021. The mayor’s decision Monday is a significant departure for the city in the case of 40-year-old Michael Townsend, who was fatally shot by a Portland police officer in the

Oregon Public Broadcasting | Troy Brynelson | April 07, 2025 The city of Portland may drop its appeal of a jury verdict last year that found a Portland police officer negligent when he shot and killed a man in the middle of a mental health crisis. Mayor Keith Wilson told city attorneys in a letter Monday that he is exercising his authority and withdrawing the appeal. “I believe the authority to appeal was improvidently granted, and I do not believe

Portland Mercury | By Adlai Coleman | January 30, 2025 On a gray December morning last year, a group of neighbors made their way through downtown Portland, headed for the office of the city’s Housing Bureau. Their goal was to deliver a demand letter asking the Bureau to intervene on behalf of the newly created tenant union at the Everett Station Lofts. The letter laid out issues tenants experienced while living at the loft complex at Northwest Everett Street and

Willamette Week | By Anthony Effinger | January 27, 2025 In what may be the first consumer-protection lawsuit filed against a psychedelic mushroom retreat company, a woman has sued Eugene-based Mandala Journey Work LLC for promising a peaceful four-day experience at a “tranquil” home with strolls in the forest, but instead delivering a cramped Airbnb with short walks in a city park. Lynne Silva sued Mandala for unlawful trade practices in U.S. District Court in Eugene today, claiming that she

Willamette Week | By Andrew Jankowski | January 24, 2025 StubHub issued a full refund to Portlander Amy Hoffman after WW reported on her class action lawsuit against the ticket reselling platform. Hoffman sought a refund Oct. 30 immediately after being informed that tickets she purchased to see Wicked at Keller Auditorium had already been scanned by other patrons. Though she was initially promised one, Hoffman described a frustrating situation in which her credit card company and the Oregon Department

Willamette Week | By Andrew Jankowski | January 20, 2025 Everyone deserves a chance to fly, and if the tickets that theater patrons bought to hear those lyrics in Wicked turn out to be bogus, at least they should get a swift refund. So argues a class action lawsuit filed Monday in Multnomah County Circuit Court, in which a Portland woman says the ticket resale marketplace StubHub still hasn’t refunded her for two counterfeit tickets to see Wicked at the

The Oregonian | By Aimee Green | January 10, 2025 A Portland-area woman who claims the anesthesiologist in her 2021 hand surgery infected her with the potentially life-threatening Hepatitis C virus filed a $4 million lawsuit against Providence Health & Services and the Oregon Anesthesiology Group on Wednesday. The woman, listed in her lawsuit only by the letters K.S., is one of more than 2,400 patients who were sent letters by Providence and Legacy Health last summer notifying them that

The Oregonian | By Aimee Green | January 07, 2025 The Beaverton School District has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the mother of a Westview High School football player who claimed he was abruptly awoken in the middle of the night during a summer sports camp and slapped in the face by his coach. The 17-year-old football player, now in his senior year, was among a dozen teens attending the overnight sports camp in June

The Oregonian | By Maxine Bernstein | December 23, 2024 A Horizon Air flight attendant is suing the air carrier, alleging two of its pilots sexually harassed her soon after she started her job. The pilots, the suit alleges, “repeatedly and severely” sexually harassed the woman from September through February of this year and the air carrier’s human resources office “took no action” to protect her. Alaska Air Inc., which owns the regional carrier Horizon Air, declined comment, citing the

The Oregonian | By Austin De Dios | December 23, 2024 Multnomah County will pay $138,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by an interim division director and former deputy chief of staff to Chair Jessica Vega Pederson who claimed the county retaliated against her after she raised concerns that the chair’s office was violating public records law. The county has also agreed to place Tabitha Jensen, who currently leads the county’s Youth and Family Services Division, on paid administrative leave