EUGENE, OR. — Jennifer Middleton of Johnson Johnson Lucas & Middleton and Tom Melville of Gresham Injury Law Center announced a major win for inmate civil rights. A settlement was reached between the family of Bradley Thomas and Lincoln County for $2.85 million....
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Judge orders Consent Decree in Title IX case
The parties have issued this joint statement: Willamette University and its former women’s rowing team are pleased to announce that we have reached a resolution to our dispute over Willamette’s elimination of women’s rowing and its compliance with Title IX in its...
Distinguished UO Professor Files Suit
UO Professor Jennifer Freyd University of Oregon Psychology Professor Jennifer Freyd filed a lawsuit against the university today challenging its sex discrimination in pay. A copy of the Complaint can be found here. Despite a quarter century as one of the most...
Call your federal legislators!
The U.S. House Judiciary just voted a bill out of committee that would gut nearly every type of mass legal action brought in the U.S. to vindicate large groups of individuals’ rights against corporate wrongdoing, including the enforcement of civil rights, as well as...
Former Nurse-Turned-Attorney Joins Johnson Johnson Lucas & Middleton
People suffering from injuries will find a receptive ear in Beatrice Grace, a former emergency room nurse who attended the University of Oregon School of Law and now is an associate at Johnson Johnson Lucas & Middleton, one of Oregon’s leading plaintiff law firms....
Nadia Raza and Lane Community College Settle Discrimination Case
Nadia Raza and Lane Community College are pleased to announce that they have resolved Ms. Raza’s claims asserted in the U.S. District Court of Oregon, Case No. 6:16-cv-00098-AA. LCC has agreed to hire Sigma Threat Assessment, nationally-recognized experts in...
Survivors settle claims for Oso landslide
Johnson Johnson & Schaller is pleased to announce that the Oso landslide claims against the State of Washington and Grandy Lake Forest Associates have been settled for $60 million. Attorneys Art Johnson and Scott Lucas got involved in this litigation shortly after...
Massage Patient Sexually Assaulted at Lussuria Salon
Lussuria Salon’s masseuse, Hee Joon Yang, sexually assaulted a patient on December 15, 2015. The patient, going by Jane Doe, filed a lawsuit on September 26, 2016, in Lane County Circuit Court alleging sexual battery, professional negligence, invasion of privacy, and...
Saying She Had “Outlived Her Effectiveness,”
Registered nurse Geraldine Goff has filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing The Corvallis Clinic of age discrimination when it fired her in February, 2015. The federal complaint is available here. The lawsuit comes on the heels of an investigation by the Oregon...
Proton Pump Inhibitors and Kidney Failure
Proton pump inhibitors (PPI) like Nexium, Prilosec, and Prevacid, are medications used to treat heartburn, indigestion, and acid reflux. PPIs work by blocking the enzyme in the wall of the stomach that produces acid. Recent studies show that patients who regularly...