The Humane Society's lawsuit over several states' plans to kill sea lions at the Bonneville Dam to protect several types of endangered fish will not continue after an Oregon U.S. District Court judge dismissed the claim with a 44-page opinion in support of the...
Month: February 2013
Anti-whaling group files federal suit in Portland
A famed anti-whaling organization is suing Japanese whalers for allegedly ramming and heavily damaging one its boats as well as terrorizing its crews in other ways in 2010. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society filed a federal lawsuit against several parties in an...
Oregon man sues IRS agent
An agent with the Internal Revenue Service has been targeted by an Oregon man's lawsuit that claims she coerced him into agreeing to a sexual encounter. According to the recently-filed civil litigation, the agent threatened to impose a harsh tax penalty on the man if...
Oregon settles discrimination case with transgender man
The state of Oregon will provide a man $36,000 after he sued the state and its Public Employees' Benefits Board when they denied him healthcare coverage. A doctor recommended a hysterectomy for the man, who was then undergoing operations aimed at changing his sex from...