News A Southwest Portland woman is suing Snoop Dogg's uncle for $90,000 after the man allegedly drove her out of her home with noxious smoke from a barbecue joint in Johns Landing.In a lawsuit filed Jan. 31 in Multnomah County Circuit Court, Gerriann Fox claims she's been forced at times to abandon her $294,000 row house because of smoke pouring out of Reo's Ribs. The restaurant opened last April in a strip ...   More

News A 29-year-old Milwaukie man is suing his local Jiffy Lube for discrimination after allegedly receiving a mailer calling him a turd burglar. Tommy Sudlow, manager of the lube shop on Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard, says it's all a misunderstanding. He says the coupon (PDF) addressed to "Turd Burgler" (sic) was meant for the home's former resident—a man Sudlow claims was nicknamed Turd Burglar. "His ...   More

News A Portland man is suing a Dutch dealer of rare stamps, alleging fake philately. In the lawsuit filed Nov. 29 in Multnomah County Circuit Court, David Markowitz claims he logged onto Ebay on Nov. 27, 2009, and bought two stamps. Both stamps pictured 19th-century French chemists. One showed Louis Pasteur, and the other featured Marcelin Berthelot. Markowitz says in his lawsuit that he paid ...   More

News A 26-year-old man from Boring, Ore., has filed a $3 million federal lawsuit against Clackamas County and Taser International alleging he suffered serious injuries from being Tasered. According to the lawsuit filed Dec. 1 in U.S. District Court, Paul Streeter was at Clackamas Town Center with his father on Dec. 2, 2008. The suit says Streeter's dad called 9-1-1 as a result of Streeter's "actions ...   More

News A man whose wife was given the wrong type of fuel at a Chevron station in east Multnomah County is suing the station's owner for allegedly ruining his fuel injectors. In a lawsuit filed Dec. 8 in Multnomah County Circuit Court, Tom Young claims his wife drove his 2003 Ford E-350 Econoline van to the Chevron station at 17411 SE Powell Blvd. on Sept. 11, 2010. The suit says Young's wife handed ...   More

News Two Portland lawyers are being sued for elder abuse and negligence after allegedly helping two women steal from an ailing relative in her 80s. According to the suit filed Dec. 17 in Multnomah County Circuit Court, lawyers Stacy Fletcher and James Dodge were hired in 2008 to prepare a power of attorney for Evelyn Roth, who was 81 at the time and had recently been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. According ...   More

News We've been holding on to this lawsuit since August, waiting to see if another suit would top it for sheer weirdness. That hasn't happened. So this Dec. 30, we're awarding a Washington woman's tort claim against a Clackamas County doggie sperm bank the 2010 Lawsuit of the Year. According to the suit filed Aug. 5 in Clackamas County Circuit Court, Erika Butler of Battle Ground, Wash., struck ...   More

News We’ve been holding on to this lawsuit since August, waiting to see if another suit would top it for sheer weirdness. That hasn’t happened.So this Dec. 30, we’re awarding a Washington woman’s tort claim against a Clackamas County doggie sperm bank the 2010 Lawsuit of the Year.According to the suit filed Aug. 5 in Clackamas County Circuit Court, Erika Butler of Battle Ground, Wash., ...   More

News  Two Portland lawyers are being sued for elder abuse and negligence after allegedly helping two women steal from an ailing relative in her 80s.According to the suit filed Dec. 17 in Multnomah County Circuit Court, lawyers Stacy Fletcher andJames Dodge were hired in 2008 to prepare a power of attorney for Evelyn Roth, who was 81 at the time and ...   More

News  Two Portland lawyers are being sued for elder abuse and negligence after allegedly helping two women steal from an ailing relative in her 80s.According to the suit filed Dec. 17 in Multnomah County Circuit Court, lawyers Stacy Fletcher andJames Dodge were hired in 2008 to prepare a power of attorney for Evelyn Roth, who was 81 at the time and ...   More