It’s been a long road. And now we’re coming to the end. Next week, final checks will start going out in the settlement Scharfstein v. BP West Coast Products, LLC. This is the final round of payments from a settlement that was completed last year. The case arose out of overcharges… Continue Reading →
You pull into one of BP’s Oregon ARCO or AM?PM stations, and fill up with gas. The street signs tells you that gas costs a specific amount; maybe $3.50 per gallon. BP’s ARCO and AM-PM advertise some of the lowest gas prices in Oregon. At the pump, the price per… Continue Reading →
Last night’s HBO premier of Hot Coffee, The Movie provided a great summary of all the ways in which the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, large foreign corporations, and political operatives have banded together to end the right to trial by jury. Filmmaker Susan Saladoff did a masterful job of… Continue Reading →
Imagine my surprise when I got home Friday night and looked at the mail. I received a “Secret Straw Ballot” from the “Nelson Report” as a “representative of the average voter.” The enclosure looks like the exact ballot that is not coincidentally being sent to Oregon voters for a special… Continue Reading →
Sad to read this morning’s news about famed civil rights prosecutor, Bobby DeLaughter. He was the Mississippi lawyer who obtained a criminal conviction in the Medgar Evers civil rights murder case some 30 years after the fact. His work inspired the movie, “Ghosts of Mississippi.” DeLaughter went on to… Continue Reading →