By Amy Angel & Becky Zuschlag Barran Liebman LLP Law, 1/29/25 — On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” The presidential website (whitehouse.gov) makes executive orders available to the public so the full text is available. This new EO […]

By Oregon Business and Industry,   What happened: On Jan. 29, OBI’s government affairs team described some of Oregon’s most pressing competitive challenges to the House Committee on Economic Development, Small Business and Trade. Senior Policy Director Duke Shepard shared key findings of a 2024 report on the condition of […]

By National Retail Federation, WASHINGTON – Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that core retail sales during the 2024 holiday season grew an unexpectedly high 4% over 2023 to a record $994.1 billion, coming in ahead of the National Retail Federation’s forecast, NRF said. Sales for the full […]

By Oregon U.S. Attorney, MEDFORD, Ore.– Nicole Randall, 37, of Cedar Park, Texas pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year of probation for introducing an adulterated drug into interstate commerce. According to court documents, between February 2020 and May 2022, Randall used fake names to smuggle GS-441524, a drug […]

Oregon Division of Financial Regulation joins $106 million multistate settlement with Vanguard over big tax bills, remediation to investors By Oregon Division of Financial Regulation Salem – The Oregon Division of Financial Regulation (DFR) announced that it joined a taskforce of state securities regulators and the U.S. Securities and Exchange […]

By Oregon NFIB SALEM, Ore., Jan. 14, 2025—Is the five-year drought of good small business news finally over? Today’s release of the latest Small Business Optimism Index from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) would lead everyone to believe it is, with the net percent of owners expecting the […]

By NFIB, WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 16, 2025) – NFIB commends the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case E.M.D Sales, Inc. v. Faustino Sanchez Carrera. The Court determined that the “preponderance of the evidence” standard of proof applies when an employer seeks to demonstrate that an employee is […]

1/13/25 — Ninth Circuit Upholds Oregon’s Conversational Privacy Statute – Notice Required to Record In-Person Conversations By Andrew Schpak & Missy Oakley Barran Liebman Law, January 13, 2025 — Last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Oregon’s conversational privacy statute en banc after it was previously thrown out […]

Oregon joins $80 million enforcement action against Block Inc., CashApp for Bank Secrecy Act violations Oregon Division of Financial Regulation Press Release, Salem – The Oregon Division of Financial Regulation (DFR) and 47 state financial regulatory agencies have taken coordinated action against Block Inc., for violations of the Bank Secrecy […]

By Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services Press Release, Salem – The Oregon Division of Financial Regulation (DFR), a member of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), has joined a $17 million settlement with Edward D. Jones & Co. L.P. (Edward Jones) resulting from an investigation into the […]