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The Oregonian | By Mike Rogoway | August 24, 2022 Marijuana retailing giant Curaleaf has agreed to a $130,000 fine and a 23-day suspension to resolve state regulators’ investigation into the company’s manufacturing blunder last summer. A Curaleaf bottling plant in Portland mixed up drops of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, with CBD wellness drops. Made from hemp, CBD is widely available in grocery stores and doesn’t usually include the ingredient that gives users a high. The Oregon Liquor

The Oregonian | By Maxine Bernstein | August 06, 2022 A private security officer who lacked state certification as an armed guard pulled a gun and fired it, striking a 19-year-old man who died and wounding 23-year-old Kolby Ross in the city’s Old Town neighborhood a week ago, according to Ross, his lawyers and state records. Now Ross, who remains hospitalized, has filed a $5 million lawsuit alleging negligence, assault and battery by the guard, identified in the suit as

Willamette Week | By Lucas Manfield | July 21, 2022 A car chase on Southeast 162nd Avenue in Gresham two summers ago has led to a recent misdemeanor charge—no thanks to the cops. Prosecutors filed charges in May against Rex Cuniff Jr. for throwing a cup of tobacco juice into another car during a confrontation at a stop light. It was after Cuniff had already been found liable by a jury, and nearly two years after Gresham police officers refused

Portland Mercury | By Jonathan Bach | June 29, 2022 A private investigator trying to serve papers at a Beaverton Wells Fargo branch in April alleges a bank employee attacked him. Mark Ososke, a state-certified PI who attempted to serve writ of garnishment papers at the Beaverton Town Square Wells Fargo, is suing the bank and an employee identified in his complaint as Marco Lara. He is seeking $25,000 and a jury trial, according to a lawsuit filed in Multnomah

Portland Mercury | By Alex Zielinski | June 7, 2022 A group of tenants living in a fixed-income apartment complex for elderly residents in Northeast Portland are suing their landlord for not keeping the complex in “habitable condition” in recent years. The five tenants, represented by pro bono attorneys, live at the Allen Fremont Plaza apartments at 221 NE Fremont, a 64-unit complex for tenants 55 and older run by Reach Community Development, a nonprofit affordable housing agency. The tenants

The Oregonian | By Nicole Hayden | May 10, 2022 Portland is enacting new policies to ensure homeless individuals are aware of impending sweeps and can retrieve their possessions in response to a lawsuit filed last year. Four individuals experiencing homelessness filed a class-action lawsuit against the city last May over how it conducted homeless encampment removals. The plaintiffs did not seek a monetary award and the lawsuit was dismissed Monday as a result of the city’s new policies. The

The Oregonian | By Kristine de Leon | May 10, 2022 A former employee is suing the owner of two Pizza Schmizza locations in Portland, alleging the businesses shortchanged employees’ pay. The lawsuit, filed Friday in Multnomah County Circuit Court, seeks to be certified as a class-action suit brought on behalf of other employees. It alleges Enso Elite Inc., a franchise operator of Pizza Schmizza’s outposts in the Pearl District and the Northwest District, “engaged in systematic wage theft by

The Oregonian | By Zane Sparling | April 28, 2022 A Beaverton woman who says she was tormented for more than two years by anonymous notes has sued a neighbor allegedly caught on camera leaving a hateful screed at her condo. The woman seeks $245,000 from Lorna Hunter, 57, and says in the lawsuit that the hand-scrawled notes contained “deranged, hate-filled, homophobic and racist” language. Hunter did not respond to multiple attempts to reach her. The paper messages were bagged

ESPN | By Jeff Carlisle | March 31, 2022 Génessis Alarcón, the estranged wife of former Portland Timbers midfielder Andy Polo, has settled the portion of her domestic violence lawsuit that relates to the club. According to a court document submitted for filing late Thursday, Alarcón has settled with the Timbers, a subsidiary of Peregrine Sports LLC. The two-page filing, a copy of which was obtained by ESPN, stated, “Ms. Alarcon and the Portland Timbers attended confidential mediation yesterday and

ESPN | By Jeff Carlisle | March 11, 2022 Michael Fuller, the attorney for the estranged wife of Andy Polo, said the Portland Timbers pressured his client not to press domestic violence charges against her husband. Fuller released an audio recording that he says is of a Timbers representative attempting to convince Genessis Alarcon not to file the charges against Polo. According to a report from the Washington County (Oregon) Sheriff’s Department, on May23, 2021, Polo was “issued a citation