Universities and community colleges may be barred from requiring students to provide log-in information for their Facebook and other social media accounts under a bill passed unanimously by the Senate. Under Senate Bill 344, public universities and community colleges in Oregon may not compel or require students to turn over passwords and other log-in information, [...]
Oregon’s major gay-rights group, Basic Rights Oregon, reached the decision to launch a petition drive to put a measure on Oregon’s 2014 ballot that will allow legal recognition of same-sex marriages, its executive director said. People are really coming to understand that marriage is unique and special and they do not want to deny that [...]
Brad Avakian, Oregon Labor Commissioner, is scheduled to appear at a hearing before the state legislature to consider a proposed law that may boost the federal minimum wage from the current $7.25 an hour to $10.10 by 2015. The move comes amid growing calls to act on an across-the-board wage rate adjustment. President Barack Obama [...]
The firm is actively filing Mirena IUD lawsuits on behalf of those who allegedly suffered serious Mirena side effects as a result of implantation of the device. The judge overseeing pretrial proceedings in the federal consolidation of Mirena IUD lawsuits has called specifically for female lawyers to be included in a plaintiffs’ leadership committee, [...]
The firm is actively filing DePuy ASR lawsuits on behalf of those who allegedly suffered metallosis, premature device failure, or other serious complications related to the 2010 DePuy ASR recall. (PRWEB) May 17, 2013 Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics announced on May 16 that it will stop sales of metal-on-metal hip replacements. This comes [...]
The firm is currently offering vaginal mesh lawsuit evaluations to women who allege they sustained injuries from vaginal mesh implants. The Rottenstein Law Group LLP, a New York-based law firm that represents hundreds of plaintiffs in transvaginal mesh lawsuits, acknowledges a study comparing the results of pelvic prolapse repair using vaginal mesh and native [...]
On May 9 a woman filed a lawsuit against drug makers Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly in federal court, alleging that the companies failed to adequately warn her about type 2 diabetes drug Byetta’s link to thyroid cancer, according to court documents for Childress v. Amylin Pharmaceuticals LLC, et al., No. 3:13-1114 (U.S. District Court [...]