Mar 25, 2020 | 2020, Banking, COVID-19, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy, Financial Services, Litigation, News
By Litigation Practice Group On March 22, 2020, and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Oregon Governor Kate Brown issued Executive Order No. 20-11 (the “Order”), which temporarily stops all residential evictions in the state based on the nonpayment of rent. Given...
Dec 2, 2019 | Agri-Business, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy, Financial Services
This article was originally published in the Oregon State Bar Debtor Creditor Newsletter in the Fall of 2019. By Erich Paetsch, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy and Litigation Attorney and Elayna Matthews As national farm debt and chapter 12 filings increase...
Oct 31, 2019 | Banking, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy, Financial Services, Litigation
By: Creditor’s Rights & Bankruptcy & Litigation Practice Groups In early September 2019, after about six hours of deliberation, a federal jury awarded a Portland, Oregon man $101,000 in non-economic damages against Wells Fargo Bank for violation of the...
Sep 18, 2019 | Agri-Business, Financial Services
By Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy and Litigation Practice Groups The USDA’s Risk Management Program recently announced the availability of crop insurance coverage for hemp grown for fiber, flower, or seeds only, available for certain industrial hemp growers...
Sep 5, 2019 | Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy, Financial Services, News
By Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy and Litigation Practice Groups The American Bankruptcy Institute (“ABI”) reported today that commercial Chapter 11 business bankruptcy case filings are up 19% from the filings last year for the month of August. The ABI...
Aug 21, 2019 | Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy, Financial Services
A New Platform for Small Businesses to Reorganize in Bankruptcy Under Chapter 11 By Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy and Litigation Practice Groups News Update – On Friday, August 23, 2019, President Donald Trump signed the “Small Business...
