Thursday: “Scam Jam” Visits Salem, Oregon
Join Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and fraud experts from the Oregon Department of Justice, the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services, AARP Oregon and the Federal Trade Commission for “Scam Jam”, a free interactive fraud prevention workshop, in Salem, Oregon Thursday, October 24, 2019. Cristin Severance, Investigative Reporter with KGW News, will emcee… View ArticlePosted in Media Release, News on October 21, 2019
Attorney General Rosenblum Sues Washington Company for Deceptive Marketing Practices
Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today filed a lawsuit against the Vancouver, Washington company U.S. Air Ducts, its owners and their associated companies for violating Oregon’s Unlawful Trade Practices Act (UTPA) by using deceptive marketing practices to make over 11 million unwanted robocalls to Oregon phone numbers and sending 20 million print advertisements promising a “whole… View ArticlePosted in Media Release, News on October 16, 2019
Oregon Joins Lawsuit Against SEC for Putting Brokers Ahead of Investors
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today joined a coalition of eight Attorneys General in filing a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York, challenging the Securities & Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new “Regulation Best Interest” for failing to meet basic investor protections that were laid out in the historic 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. Oregon Treasurer Tobias Read, who… View ArticlePosted in Media Release, News on September 10, 2019
Oregon Sues EPA Over Toxic Pesticide in Food
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today asked to intervene in a proceeding filed last month in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by six Attorneys General against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for allowing chlorpyrifos, a pesticide that can harm infant and child neurological development, to contaminate common foods. The coalition is challenging the… View ArticlePosted in Media Release, News on September 6, 2019
Oregon Joins Lawsuit Opposing Trump Administration’s Rule Allowing Prolonged Detention of Children
Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today announced Oregon is joining a coalition of 20 state Attorneys General in filing a lawsuit opposing the Trump Administration’s new rule circumventing the Flores Settlement Agreement, which since 1997 has restricted how long children can be held in immigration custody. The Trump administration wants to change the Flores Settlement and… View ArticlePosted in Media Release, News on August 26, 2019