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Byline: D. Diane Hatch, James E. Hall, Mark T. Kobata, Marty Denis Robert Dark began working for the Road Department of Curry County, Oregon, in 1985, operating heavy equipment and [...]

About 80,000 Catholic households in western Oregon will soon get notice that they have been named defendants in the Archdiocese of Portland's bankruptcy case. The legal move emerged as a [...]

Oregon's Death with Dignity law remains intact after a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week denied a request by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to revisit [...]

MAGAZINE subscription agent Publishers Services Exchange (PSE) is being watched closely by publishers, many trying to prevent the firm from soliciting customers and prospects for magazine subscriptions and renewals without [...]

A pair of long-distance phone companies scrutinized by the state Office of the Attorney General have agreed to cease fraudulent business practices in Oregon. Excel Communications Inc. of Dallas, Texas, [...]

In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services and its director Mike Greenfield, who were [...]

Microsoft Corp. this week won what it hopes will be a precedent-setting victory in one of 137 antitrust-related class-action lawsuits that have been filed against the software vendor in various […]

The 'Watching Out for You' slogan of KEZI-TV, Eugene, Ore., became the butt of jokes last week because station employees were caught using its Sky-Cam to peep in hotel windows. [...]

The U.S. District Court of Oregon has put a temporary damper on AT&T's plans to work its way into the local exchange world through a cable pipe, at least in […]

The parties involved in the $75 million lawsuit over the Pamcorp deal, approaching a Nov. 6 trial date to determine who was responsible for the failed venture, have reached a [...]

Four years after the Pamcorp deal unraveled in one of the most high-profile flops in Oregon history, the resulting lawsuit threatens to haul more state agencies and the Port of [...]

Was state justified in '82 sacking of insurer? More than a decade after the state transferred $81 million from SAIF Corp. to fill a state budget gap, businesses which paid [...]

A federal judge has ruled that the state of Oregon can assess fees against self-insured groups. The judge ruled that the fees levied by the Oregon Medical Insurance Pool (OMIP) are not in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act as had been alleged in a law suit filed against the OMIP by the Safeco Life Insurance Co. The OMIP is an insurance pool for insuring high-risk people that is partially funded by fees on insurance companies., PORTLAND, Ore. - A federal court judge has ruled that the state of Oregon can assess fees on reinsurers who sell coverage to employers who self-insure their employee health plans. [...]

OREGON LAST month filed a lawsuit charging that e-voting gear maker Election Systems & Software Inc. (ES & S) breached a contract to supply handicapped-accessible voting machines to the state. […]

Oregon circuit Judge Michael Adler ruled May 14 that Bishop Robert F. Vasa of Baker, a largely-rural diocese in eastern Oregon, can transfer legal ownership of parish properties to the [...]