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United States of America v. Melesio Gomez-Rivera
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaing in a multiyear scheme to evade the payment of payroll and income taxes on the wages of construction workers. Melesio Gomez-Rivera, 49, of Aloha, Oregon, owned and operated a residential construction company called Novatos Construction. From January 2014 until December 2017, Gomez-Rivera and several other c... More... ( 05-31-2023 - OR) |
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United States of America v. Robert J. Jesenik, Andrew N. MacRitchie and Brian K. Rise
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit fraud. Robert J. Jesenik, 63, former chief executive officer of Aequitas and resident of Lake Oswego, Oregon; Andrew N. MacRitchie, 59, formerly of Palm Harbor, Florida; and Brian K. Rice, 56, of Portland were found guilty of conspiring with one another to commit mail and wire fraud and 28 ind... More... ( 05-17-2023 - OR) |
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United States of America v. Oscar Manuel Rosas Gaona
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer representing defendant charged with drug trafficking. In April 2023, special agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arranged to purchase 10,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl for 70 cents per pill. On April 14, 2023, the agents, working in partnership with the Clackamas County Interagency Task Force (CCITF), completed t... More... ( 05-08-2023 - OR) |
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Robin Sabados v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company
Portland, Oregon employment law lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a wrongful failure to pay E.R.I.S.A.-Employee Benefits. ... More... ( 04-28-2023 - OR) |
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United States of America v. Tom Redhawk Tias
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with manslaughter for repeatedly striking a fellow resident of the reservation with his fists, causing the person’s death. On January 26, 2021, Tom Redhawk Tias, age 23, contacted law enforcement to report an unresponsive adult. Officers responded to the scene on the reservation and located the victim who was decease... More... ( 04-10-2023 - OR) |
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Jorge Bello v. City of Portland
Portland, Oregon civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants claiming that his constitutional rights were violated by John Oliphant, a City of Portland employee Federal Courthouse - Por... More... ( 03-17-2023 - or) |
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Jacklyn Hyonk Lee and Jongbum Pak v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service
Portland, Oregon immigration lawyer represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants on an Administration Procedure Act and due process violation theories. Federal Courthouse - Portland, Oregon ... More... ( 02-21-2023 - OR) |
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United States of America v. Lyle Justin Schirm
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with shipping a handgun and ammunition to the United Kingdom and possessing a pound of meth in his residence. Federal Courthouse - P... More... ( 02-17-2023 - OR) |
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Julie Lynn Williams v. Social Security Administration
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Federal Courthouse - Portland, Oregon ... More... ( 02-09-2023 - OR) |
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United States of America v. Kahlani Hamilton Jones
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Federal Courthouse - Portland, Oregon ... More... ( 02-09-2023 - OR) |
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Elizabeth M. v. Social Security Administration
Portland, Oregon social security disability lawyer represented Petition seeking review of the denial of her applicaiton for DIWC/DIWW benefits by HHS. MoreLaw Legal News For Portland DIWC (Disabled Insured Work... More... ( 01-27-2023 - OR) |
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Rose Wakefield v. PacWest Energy and Jackson Food Stores
Portland, Oregon personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on civil rights violation theories. ... More... ( 01-25-2023 - OR) |
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Dante Miller v. Winco Foods, LLC
Portland, Oregon personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a negligence theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of an accident. MoreLaw Legal News For Portland ... More... ( 12-15-2022 - OR) |
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United States of America v. Tom Redhawk Tias
Portland, Oregon criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with manslaughter. MoreLaw Legal News For Portland On January 26, 2021, Tom Redhawk Tias, age 22, contacted law enforcement to report an unresponsive adult. ... More... ( 12-15-2022 - Or) |
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United States of America v. James Millegan
Portland, Oregon criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax evasion. James Millegan, age 65, owned and operated J.W. Millegan, Inc., a small, commission-based investment advisory business that served clients in the Portland and Salem, Oregon metropolitan areas. From 1996 to 2016, the investment firm was Millegan’s only significant source of income. Over a seven-... More... ( 11-14-2022 - OR) |
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United States of America v. Justin Allen Cunningham
Portland, Oregon criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343, which provides: Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or tel... More... ( 10-14-2022 - OR) |
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Erin Wenzel v. City of Portland, et al.
Portland, Oregon personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on assault, battery and negligence theories. Erin Wenzel claiming that on August 14, 2020 an officer ran at her and violently slammed her with a nightstick while she was attempting to follow police instruction to disperse. Plaintiff was with a group protesters and was complying with police orders w... More... ( 10-04-2022 - OR) |
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United States of America v. Eduardo Barbosa Lopez
Portland Oregon criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with supplying large quantities of methamphetamine and heroin to a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization operating in the Portland Metropolitan Area. Eduardo Barbosa Lopez, 44, also known as Barbas, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release. Beginning in 2018, two men, Samu... More... ( 08-30-2022 - OR) |
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United States of America v. Idaho Power Company
Portland, Oregon civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused of negligently causing fires. Idaho Power Company, a Boise, Idaho-based utility that provides electricity to several states, including Oregon, has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle allegations by the United States relating to the May 2014 Powerline and August 2015 Lime Hill fires in Baker County, Oregon. T... More... ( 08-25-2022 - OR) |
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Jacqueline L. v. Social Security Administration
Portland, Oregon social security disability lawyers represented Plaintiff seeking review of the denial of her application for benefits by HHS.... More... ( 08-09-2022 - OR) |
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United States of America v. Johnl Jackson
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged for transporting two teen girls across state lines, drugging and sexually abusing them, and selling them to other men for sex. In 2016, John L. Jackson, age 34, met and befriended Keonte Desmond Scott, 23, also of Vancouver, after Scott’s release from prison. Jackson sold Scott cocaine and eventually began coaching h... More... ( 07-25-2022 - OR) |
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State of Oregon v. Joey Gibson and Russell Schult
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendants charged with rioting. Right-wing Patriot Prayer leaders Joey Gibson and Russell Schultz were charged with rioting as a result of their involvement in a brawl at the Cider Riot, a hangout of left-wing activists.... More... ( 07-20-2022 - OR) |
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Audubon Society of Portland, et al. v. Deb Haaland, et al.
Portland, Oregon environmental law lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants challenging a combined Environmental Impact Statement and Comprehensive Conservation Plan ("EIS/CCP") with respect to the Tule Lake and Lower Klamath Refuges in the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge Complex violated various laws. Two key statutes govern the Service's management of ref... More... ( 07-18-2022 - OR) |
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United States of America v. Delvin Mills
Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with bank fraud and identity theft scheme targeting female victims in the Portland Metropolitan Area. Delvin Mills, 30, was a member of the Felony Lane Gang, an interstate criminal organization based in Florida that traveled to locations throughout the U.S. to commit vehicle break-in and fraud sprees. The organization ... More... ( 07-14-2022 - OR) |
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Jeff Gist v. Zoan Management, Inc., et al.
Portland, Oregon civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a breach of contract theory. After plaintiff filed this class-action complaint against defendants in the trial court, defendants filed a motion to compel arbitration. The trial court granted the motion. Plaintiff appealed, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. Gist v. Zoan Management, Inc., 305 Or.App... More... ( 07-08-2022 - OR) |