Overlawyered » Oregon http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:28:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Nevada proposal: ban candles, air fresheners in public places http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/nevada-proposal-ban-candles-air-fresheners-in-public-places/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/nevada-proposal-ban-candles-air-fresheners-in-public-places/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:04:04 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22134 The anti-scent movement wafts on, following controversy over a proposal to ban perfume and cologne in Portland, Ore. city buildings. [Balko]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/nevada-proposal-ban-candles-air-fresheners-in-public-places/feed/ 4 Update: Oregon home brewers and vintners http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/update-oregon-home-brewers-and-vintners/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/update-oregon-home-brewers-and-vintners/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:43:42 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22087 A change in state law will allow them to enter competitions, taste-offs and similar away-from-home events. [Oregonian] Earlier here.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/update-oregon-home-brewers-and-vintners/feed/ 0 Sorry, craft brewers http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/sorry-craft-brewers/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/sorry-craft-brewers/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:33:56 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=21527 In Oregon “all homemade alcoholic beverages must be consumed where they’re made,” so unless the law changes, beer and wine competitions and taste-offs aren’t going to be legal. [KATU]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/sorry-craft-brewers/feed/ 2 “Even if it’s a 15-year-old, we hold 15-year-olds to certain levels of responsibility.” http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/%e2%80%9ceven-if-it%e2%80%99s-a-15-year-old-we-hold-15-year-olds-to-certain-levels-of-responsibility-%e2%80%9d/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/%e2%80%9ceven-if-it%e2%80%99s-a-15-year-old-we-hold-15-year-olds-to-certain-levels-of-responsibility-%e2%80%9d/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:43:54 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=21120 Headline: “Teen hit with own golf ball sues for millions.” The youth was using a Hillsboro, Ore. driving range in the rain and his ball ricocheted off a metal awning post back into his face. [KATU]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/settlement-consumed-in-fees/feed/ 5 October 21 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/october-21-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/october-21-roundup-3/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:29:49 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=19786
  • “Japanese landlords sue families of suicide victims” [Telegraph via Tyler Cowen]
  • Best candidate you’ve never heard of: lawprof Jim Huffman runs for a U.S. Senate seat in Oregon [Weekly Standard]
  • “Freedom of culinary expression: Chefs speak out on behalf of salt” ["My Food, My Choice" via Ponnuru, NRO]
  • “In-House Counsel Expect More Regulatory Litigation, Survey Finds” [NLJ]
  • “Oladiran’s ‘Motion of the Year’ Earns Him Sanctions” [AtL]
  • Resisting a music-delivery-system claim: “Patent Trolls and Public Goods” [Julian Sanchez]
  • More transparency for New Jersey lawyer/lawmakers? [Philly.com]
  • “Ninth Circuit: marine mammals don’t have standing…yet” [six years ago on Overlawyered]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/october-21-roundup-3/feed/ 2     Oregon expands public-agency liability http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/oregon-expands-public-agency-liability/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/oregon-expands-public-agency-liability/#comments Sun, 12 Sep 2010 05:09:08 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=19209 And guess who’s getting hit on the rebound: community groups that want to hold events in public facilities [Ted at PoL]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/oregon-expands-public-agency-liability/feed/ 0     An Oregon crafter on CPSIA http://overlawyered.com/2010/07/an-oregon-crafter-on-cpsia/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/07/an-oregon-crafter-on-cpsia/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:19:55 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=18326 You might be bitter too:

    I called the lab, got the quote and did the math. CPSIA-mandated testing costs for my little product line was over $27,000 for just over $30,000 worth of product. I cannot express the horrible feeling I had when I realized that I had made a mistake that was going to cost my family all of our money. …

    I blame every one of the Energy and Commerce legislative staffers.

    – Jolie Fay, crafter, SkippingHippos.com, guest post, AmendTheCPSIA.com

    SeeSawa

    PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGE from Ethel Everett, illustrator, Nursery Rhymes (1900), courtesy ChildrensLibrary.org.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/07/an-oregon-crafter-on-cpsia/feed/ 4     “Legal secretary claims firm fired her for failure to meet unrealistic workload” http://overlawyered.com/2010/03/legal-secretary-claims-firm-fired-her-for-failure-to-meet-unrealistic-workload/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/03/legal-secretary-claims-firm-fired-her-for-failure-to-meet-unrealistic-workload/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:47:33 +0000 Ted Frank http://overlawyered.com/?p=16637 Legal secretary Nancy Topolski acknowledges that she couldn’t handle the workload assigned to her by law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, and that she suffered panic attacks as a result that prevented her from doing the work. But, she says, this just means that the law firm violated discrimination laws when it fired her. (Karen Sloan, National Law Journal, Mar. 24).

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/03/legal-secretary-claims-firm-fired-her-for-failure-to-meet-unrealistic-workload/feed/ 0     McDonald’s coffee still hot in Oregon http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/mcdonalds-coffee-still-hot-in-oregon/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/mcdonalds-coffee-still-hot-in-oregon/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:06:06 +0000 Ted Frank http://overlawyered.com/?p=15989 Aurora Hill alleges that McDonald’s coffee is “extremely hot in the extreme” and caused nervous shock, pain, and scarring when it spilled on her. (Aimee Green, The Oregonian, Feb. 4).

    You may recall that part of the trial lawyer fiction about the merits of the infamous Stella Liebeck suit was that it supposedly successfully caused fast food restaurants to lower the temperature of coffee so that no one would ever be burned again.

    My faith in humanity is encouraged when I see that the poll of Consumerist blog readers on the topic marks 86% for the option “Hot coffee is hot. Deal with it” on a blog that usually is reflexively pro-trial lawyer. Ironically, I wouldn’t count this suit as entirely meritless: Hill alleges that McDonald’s workers failed to adequately affix the lid to the cup, causing the spill as they handed her the coffee in the drive-through, which, if true, would strike me as actionable.

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