International Law

Oregon To Hold Hearing On Copyright In Laws
As reported in Slaw (Oregon Claims Copyright Over Laws and It’s All Gone Ore-gon), the state of Oregon maintains that it holds the copyright over its laws and has moved to prevent their publication by others...

Oregon Claims Copyright Over Laws
Boing Boing gives us Carl Malmud’s report that U.S. free access sites Justia and Public.Resources.Org have received take-down letters from the Oregon Legislative Counsel in connection with their publishing of Oregon’s laws...

More: Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) Copyrighted Material
More stories, but, please, ? don?t jump to conclusions. Only the parties to this argle-bargle (here and here) have all the facts right now. It could be there is more misunderstanding than grandstanding...

Three Cheers for Tim & Carl! Oregon Satutes Recognized as Public Domain
Great news! See Tim's post: Oregon decides not to enforce any copyright claims on the Oregon Revised Statutes

Oregon Claims Copyright, Seeks Removal of ORS From Internet Sites
Boing Boing points us to a bit of unfortunate business between the State of Oregon and two sites, Justia and Public.Resource.Org, that post copies of the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS)...

Oregon Decides Not to Enforce Copyright Claims on Statutes
Justia reports that Oregon's Legislative Counsel Committee has unanimously voted to not to enforce any copyright claims on the Oregon Revised Statutes. See more about the decision, including video, from PublicResource...

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Understaffed Elder Care
Sunwest Management pays $5.5 million in two class action settlements with California and Oregon residents.

California Labor Laws
alleged violations of California labor laws such as overtime pay, discrimination and harassment.

False Claims
Attorney Robert Arledge ordered to pay $5.8 million after making false Fen Phen settlement claims.

Spike Lee and Showtime
Settlement reached in script copyright infringement lawsuit.

Joke Book
Judy Brown and publishers pay undisclosed settlement to comedians and talkshow celebrities for copyright infringement.

LINA - Cigna Life Insurance Company of North America Disability Claims
LINA Insurance alleging violations of disability insurance claims.