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United States of America v. Robert Jacob Hoopes
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated assault on a federal employee with a dangerous weapon. On June 14, 2025, Robert Jacob Hoopes, 25, threw a large rock and struck an ICE officer in the head, causing a significant laceration over the officer’s eye. Later that same day, he and two other individuals were seen using an upended stop sign as ... More...
(02-18-2026 - OR)United States of America v. Michael Cambalik
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with coercion and enticement of a minor. In December 2024, the parent of a then-nine-year-old minor victim contacted their local police department after finding CSAM texted to an unrecognized phone number from the minor victim. Michael Cambalik, 43, a registered sex offender, contacted the minor victim through an online... More...
(02-09-2026 - OR)United States of America v. Kenneth Green
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of children. Kenneth Green, age 57, paid for and received livestreamed shows featuring the sexual abuse and exploitation of children in the Philippines. During the shows, Green gave child sex traffickers in the Philippines specific instructions on how to abuse the children and received child sex... More...
(01-29-2026 - OR)State of Oregon v. Fonte T. Gladen
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of children. Fonte T. Gladen, 26, of Portland. accused of possessing digital devices that contained images and videos depicting children and adults in bedrooms and bathrooms located inside a private residence.... More...
(01-20-2026 - OR)State of Oregon v. Fonte T. Galden
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendant was booked on 385 felony sexual exploitation of children charges. Fonte T. Gladen, 26, of Portland. accused of using digital devices associated with the suspect contained images and videos depicting children and adults in bedrooms and bathrooms located inside a private residence.... More...
(01-17-2026 - OR)United States of America v. Alfredo Terrero-Ortega
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. on January 31, 2023, Terrero-Ortega was released from the Oregon Department of Corrections to post-prison supervision in the community. In June 2023, within five months of his release, Terrero-Ortega threatened to kill a woman and shoved her to the ground while she was holding her b... More...
(01-16-2026 - OR)United States of America v. Alexandru Telescu and Aramis Manolea
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to steal more than $160,000 of benefits from low income and food insecure individuals and families. Alexandru Telescu, 29, and Aramis Manolea, 35, have been charged in a 26-count indictment with conspiracy to defraud the United States, access device fraud, possession, production, and trafficking of devic... More...
(12-19-2025 - OR)United States of America v. Alexandru Telescu and Aramis Manolea,
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 26-counts of conspiracy to defraud the United States, access device fraud, possession, production, and trafficking of device-making equipment, and aggravated identity theft. beginning in April 2025, Telescu and Manolea, along with others, conspired to use stolen Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) account informatio... More...
(12-18-2025 - OR)United States of America v. Joshan Rohani
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with transporting and possessing photos and videos depicting child sexual abuse. Joshan rohani, 41, was accused to transporting and possessing photos and videos depicting child sexual abuse. , between July and December 2021, Rohani participated in at least 34 chatrooms, some of which were focused on sharing child sex... More...
(12-08-2025 - OR)State of Oregon v. Anthony M. Nicholas, Ja’Riyah L. Williams, and Daviana E. Anderson
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and attempted murder. Anthony M. Nicholas, 18 — Assault in the Second Degree, Unlawful Use of a Weapon Ja’Riyah L. Williams, 21 — Assault in the Third Degree, Unlawful Use of a Weapon Daviana E. Anderson, 18 — Assault in the Third Degree, Unlawful ... More...
(12-02-2025 - OR)Zoe Hollis v. R& R Restaurants, Inc., et al.
Portland, Oregon employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Fair Labor Standards Act violation theory. Zoe Hollis, a dancer at a Portland strip club called Sassy’s, sued the club’s owners and managers under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“the FLSA†or “the Actâ€) for misclassifying its dancers as independent contractors and violating ... More...
(11-18-2025 - OR)Ryan Corbridge v. Encompass Indemnity Company
Portland, Oregon, insurance lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on bad faith breach of contract theory. AI Overview Oregon bad faith insurance law has significantly evolved, particularly with the 2023 Moody v. Oregon Community Credit Union decision, which allows policyholders to sue insurers for certain unfair claims handling practices under a common law negligence claim. T... More...
$1 (10-28-2025 - OR)United States of America v. Temika Gardner
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Assault on a Federal Officer. Temika Gardner, 40, of Portland, made her first appearance in federal court after being charged by criminal complaint with assaulting a federal officer. On October 23, 2025, Gardner was near the vehicle of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deportation Officers after the... More...
(10-25-2025 - OR)State of Oregon v. Connor J. O’Brien
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer will be representing the Defendant charged with murder. O’Brien was wanted in connection with the 2023 fatal stabbing of 22-year-old Tiara Atencio in Portland, Oregon. ... More...
(10-19-2025 - OR)State of Oregon v. Andrw Anderson
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with secibd-degree kidnapping and menacing.... More...
(10-07-2025 - OR)United States of America v. Reynaldo Hernandez-Escoto
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with maintaining a drug involved presises in violation of 21:856(a)(1) and 856(b). ... More...
(09-26-2025 - OR)United States of America v. August Dean Gordon
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assaulting a federal officer.... More...
(09-26-2025 - OR)Sherry H. Detwiler v. Mid-Columbia Medical Center, et al.
Portland, Oregon, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff on an employment discrimination theory. Sherry M. Detwiler worked as a Privacy Officer and the Director of Health Information for Defendant-Appellee Mid-Columbia Medical Center (“MCMCâ€), a hospital in The Dalles, Oregon, from September 14, 2020, through December 20, 2021. In her own words, Detwiler is a pr... More...
(09-26-2025 - OR)United States of America v. Scott Raymond Keast
Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with in possession of a firearm in violation of 18U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). The Sentencing Guidelines instruct a sentencing court to apply a base offense level of 20 if “the defendant committed any part of the instant offense subsequent to sustaining one felony conviction of . . . a crime of violen... More...
(09-18-2025 - OR)State of Oregon v. Markesha McGruder and Elexis Jackson
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with four counts of organized retail crime, 10 counts of first-degree theft, two counts of second-degree theft, and one count of aggravated theft. n June 11, police arrested 33-year-old Markesha McGruder and 28-year-old Elexis Jackson during a traffic stop near Northeast Halsey Street and Northeast 112th Avenue. ... More...
(09-05-2025 - OR)State of Oregon v. Victor Palmer-Regen
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of second-degree assault, two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, and first-degree criminal mischief. Victor Palmer-Regen, age 38, was accused of stabbing two people in Northwest Portland. ... More...
(08-28-2025 - OR)United States of America v. Dontae Lamont Hung
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl analogue, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute a controlled substance, unlawful possession of firearms, and laundering of monetary instruments. ... More...
(08-28-2025 - OR)Terrial Jackson v. KA-3 Associates, LLC, et al.
Portland, Oregon personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a negligence theory under the Oregon Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (ORLTA), seeking damages for injuries he suffered when the plastic cover of a light fixture fell onto his head. The light fixture was mounted on the ceiling of a shared, exterior hallway outside tenant's apartment. Tenant's theory was that landlord... More...
(07-19-2025 - OR)State of Oregon v. Mike Bivins
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with eleven counts of first-degree arson, criminal mischief and second-degree bias. Mike Bivins was accused of trying to torch a Muslim community center and vandalized two synagogues and a Black-owned business during a four-day hate crime spree two years ago.... More...
(07-11-2025 - OR)Pharmacychecker.com, LLC v. Legitscript, LLC
Portland, Oregon civil litigation lawyers represented the parties in an anti-trust violation theory. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Nor do they necessarily cancel each other out. In this case, PharmacyChecker.com LLC (“PharmacyCheckerâ€) sued its competitor LegitScript LLC (“LegitScriptâ€) for engaging in a group boycott in violation of antitru... More...
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