Did you receive a text or email offering you a REFUND? Don’t fall for it. It’s a scam!

For years, scammers have been pretending to be someone you trust, while trying to trick you into sending them money. But as more people learn the scammers’ devious ways, they’re switching it up. So instead of contacting you about a debt and making threats to get you to pay up, scammers may send you an… View Article

Posted in Consumer Protection, News on June 2, 2023

Attorney General Rosenblum Announces $102.5 Million National Settlement with Suboxone Maker for Alleged Illegal Monopoly Tactics

Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced today that Oregon has joined 41 other states in a nationwide $102.5 million settlement with the maker of Suboxone, Indivior Inc. Oregon will receive approximately $1.5 million from the settlement. Suboxone is used in the medically assisted treatment of opioid use disorder. It plays an important part in our fight… View Article

Posted in Media Release, Opioids on June 2, 2023

AG Rosenblum Sues 3M, DuPont, Others for PFAS Contamination from Firefighting Foam

Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today sued 21 companies – including DuPont and 3M – involved in the manufacture of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) and its components, alleging their legal responsibility for PFAS contamination in Oregon caused by AFFF. PFAS is the common term for “per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.” These chemicals are used in firefighting foam,… View Article

Posted in Media Release on May 31, 2023

Attorney General Rosenblum Sues Avid Telecom Over Illegal Robocalls

Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today sued Michael D. Lansky, LLC, which does business under the name Avid Telecom, its owner Michael Lansky, and its vice president Stacey S. Reeves, for allegedly initiating and facilitating billions of illegal robocalls to millions of people and violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, and other… View Article

Posted in Consumer Protection, Media Release on May 24, 2023

Statement by Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum on the Passing of former Oregon Court of Appeals Judge Rick Haselton

Oregon lost a legal giant yesterday. I had the good fortune to engage with Judge Rick Haselton, on nearly a daily basis, for six years while we served  together on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 2005-2011. He was the presiding judge of my three-judge panel for four of those years;  we carpooled together to… View Article

Posted in Media Release on May 18, 2023