Oregon Objects to Purdue’s Bankruptcy Plan Granting Legal Shield to Sackler Family

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and eight other Attorneys General today filed a formal objection asking a federal judge to reject Purdue Pharma’s proposed bankruptcy plan, which includes a lifetime legal shield for the company’s owners, the Sackler family. The states argue that a bankruptcy court does not have the authority to prevent attorneys general… View Article

Posted in Media Release, Opioids on July 19, 2021

AG Rosenblum Sues Google Over App Store

Lawsuit Says Google Illegally Maintains App Store Monopoly; Unfairly Edges Out Competition Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and 36 other Attorneys General today filed a lawsuit against Google in California, alleging exclusionary conduct relating to the Google Play Store for Android mobile devices and Google Billing. The Attorneys General also accuse Google of using its… View Article

Posted in Consumer Protection, Media Release on July 7, 2021

AG Rosenblum Receives 2nd Annual Report on Hate and Bias in Oregon: Data show 134% Increase

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum last night received the second annual report from the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) on 2020 data on hate crimes and bias incidents in Oregon. In total, 1,101 reports were made to the Oregon DOJ Bias Response Hotline (Hotline) in 2020–a 134% surge in reporting in the second half of… View Article

Posted in Hate and Bias Crimes, Media Release on July 2, 2021

Attorney General Rosenblum Praises Oregon Legislature for Outstanding Session

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum congratulated and thanked legislators throughout the state today for an extremely productive 2021 Oregon legislative session, and for passing her agenda of bills that were introduced at her request. The new laws requested this session by Attorney General Rosenblum will help Oregonians saddled with student loan debt; fund environmental contamination… View Article

Posted in Media Release on June 26, 2021

Oregon Legislature Adds Protected Class of “Gender Identity” to Oregon Statutes

Oregon Governor Kate Brown today signed HB 3041, which clarifies existing anti-discrimination protections by adding “gender identity” to all Oregon laws that use “sexual orientation” in the text of the law. HB 3041 was introduced at the request of Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, Labor Commissioner Val Hoyle and Basic Rights Oregon. “I want to commend the… View Article

Posted in Hate and Bias Crimes, Media Release on June 25, 2021