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	<title>Portland Oregon Personal Injury and Class Action Attorney – Lawyer – Paul and Sugerman PC &#187; civil justice system</title>
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		<title>Update Oregon court fees increases: Are we closing the courthouse doors?</title>
		<link>http://www.pspc.com/2009/10/update-oregon-court-fees-increases-are-we-closing-the-courthouse-doors</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the link to a report in The Oregonian posted on OregonLive about this week&#8217;s increase in filing fees in Oregon&#8217;s civil court system. Longer analysis here explaining the problem.  The comments at OregonLive are a bit disconcerting, what with yammering about frivolous lawsuits and a 1989 Orange County case.
Last I checked, Orange County was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New on Oregon Class Action Blog: The curious tale of the tort reformer who filed his own class action</title>
		<link>http://www.pspc.com/2009/08/new-on-oregon-class-action-blog-the-curious-tale-of-the-tort-reformer-who-filed-his-own-class-action</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wonders never cease. Here&#8217;s a blog post at the Oregon Class Action blog about the California tort reform advocate who filed a class action against the City of Sacramento for towing his illegally parked car. Can&#8217;t hardly wait to see how this one comes out!
David Sugerman
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		<title>Oregon bleach-blonde luxury-litigator claim rejected</title>
		<link>http://www.pspc.com/2009/05/oregon-bleach-blonde-bad-hair-lawsuit-rejected</link>
		<comments>http://www.pspc.com/2009/05/oregon-bleach-blonde-bad-hair-lawsuit-rejected#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 16:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s one of those cases that causes those of us who represent consumers to shake our heads. An affluent woman who has been bleaching her hair since childhood sues an upscale salon for botched hair treatment. She seeks $50,000 in humiliation damages, plus substantial out-of-pocket expenses for hair treatment and childcare.
Deliberating for just an hour, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon liability insurance rates drop for doctors</title>
		<link>http://www.pspc.com/2009/05/oregon-liability-insurance-rates-drop-for-doctors</link>
		<comments>http://www.pspc.com/2009/05/oregon-liability-insurance-rates-drop-for-doctors#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 17:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice write up online for the Willamette Week here about how liability insurance rates for Oregon physicians fell. The study from the State of Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services dispels a major political myth.
While it&#8217;s hard to remember, Oregon voters rejected a cap on damages in medical malpractice cases several years ago. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Large law firm rates $450 per hour for associate with no experience</title>
		<link>http://www.pspc.com/2009/04/large-law-firm-rates-450-per-hour-for-associate-with-no-experience</link>
		<comments>http://www.pspc.com/2009/04/large-law-firm-rates-450-per-hour-for-associate-with-no-experience#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently turned down a complex but interesting case that had been handled by a much larger firm. In hearing about the case, I asked the potential client how he had decided to have this firm handle his case. He explained that he felt like he needed a big firm to take on his former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson: Texas medical damage cap fails to lower consumer health costs</title>
		<link>http://www.pspc.com/2009/04/lesson-texas-medical-damage-cap-fails-to-lower-consumer-health-costs</link>
		<comments>http://www.pspc.com/2009/04/lesson-texas-medical-damage-cap-fails-to-lower-consumer-health-costs#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Oregon injury attorney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texans are proud of doing things in a big way.  Unfortunately, big, loud and proud sometimes misses the mark on the wisdom front. It happened again.
In 2003, Texans went big and amended their state constitution to cap damages that can be recovered in medical malpractice claims. The proponents argued long and loud about the parade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter in the jury room</title>
		<link>http://www.pspc.com/2009/04/305</link>
		<comments>http://www.pspc.com/2009/04/305#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This report from an Arkansas trial closes the book on a recent clash between new media and jury trials.  The trial judge ruled that a twitter users tweets were in bad taste but did not amount to misconduct. He declined to grant a new trial to Stoam Holdings, a building materials company.
Twitter, Facebook and Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vatican must answer in sex abuse case</title>
		<link>http://www.pspc.com/2009/03/vatican-must-answer-in-sex-abuse-case</link>
		<comments>http://www.pspc.com/2009/03/vatican-must-answer-in-sex-abuse-case#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon sex abuse lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the Vatican must answer a claim for damages arising out of the sexual abuse of Doe.  Here&#8217;s a link to the pdf of the long opinion.  The upshot is that the case cleared the first low hurdle, in that the Court found the Holy See [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon court closures&#8211;what does it mean for consumers?</title>
		<link>http://www.pspc.com/2009/02/oregon-court-closures-what-does-it-mean-for-consumers</link>
		<comments>http://www.pspc.com/2009/02/oregon-court-closures-what-does-it-mean-for-consumers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Add one more thing to the list of casualties of the economic meltdowns. Oregon Chief Justice Paul DeMuniz announced Friday that Oregon courts will go to part-time operations at least through June.  A reprint of the press release is here: oregon-judicial-department-closure-press-release-20091
It&#8217;s easy to shrug the shoulders and treat this as one of those things. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EMTs sexually abusing patients</title>
		<link>http://www.pspc.com/2008/12/emts-sexually-abusing-patients</link>
		<comments>http://www.pspc.com/2008/12/emts-sexually-abusing-patients#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a chilling news report on problems with emergency medical technicians sexually abusing patients.  As with any profession, it&#8217;s easy to look away or bury sexual abuse allegations. It&#8217;s simply too sick and painful to think that an ambulance attendant would use the cover of medical care and an incapacitated patient for sexual gratification.
Kudos and [...]]]></description>
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