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The brief argues that tenants should have the right to safe, healthy, and habitable common areas.
Consumers of medical and mental health care who look to medical credit cards with the hope of expanding their ability to access care are too often trapped by predatory practices.
The brief argues that federal and Oregon laws don’t allow arbitration agreements to be enforced if one party fails to pay its fees.
OCJ hosted our first CLE Event and Networking Reception on March 29 at the Oregon State Bar Conference Center in Tigard.
Celebrating important victories for Oregon consumers
Earlier this month, members of OCJ Law’s legal team (attorney Matt Kirkpatrick and paralegal Lucia Becchetti) joined attorney Matthew Sutton in Medford, prevailing on multiple claims in a trial to find justice for a southern Oregon woman against family law practice, Rise Law Group, Inc (Rise).
Our policy team is joined this winter by two new interns in their last year of law school: Taylor Westlund (she/her) and Devon Gonzalez-Yoxtheimer (they/them).
Last spring, OCJ set the stage to regularly seek the input of consumers through a representative statewide survey. In October 2023, we built on those results and asked new questions to understand how a variety of consumer issues are experienced throughout Oregon.
While still on track to begin broadly taking consumer clients later this year as announced last November, we are thrilled to share that just before the new year, OCJ filed our first consumer case!
At the end of November, OCJ successfully petitioned to intervene on the PacifiCorp docket with the Oregon Public Utility Commission, which sets a limit to future lawsuit awards strictly to "actual" damages for property and loss of life.
OCJ is championing four pieces of pro-consumer legislation during the short legislative session to expand and modernize protections for Oregonians.
