The NBC News affiliate WAFF in Huntsville, Alabama recently interviewed me concerning the history of the Boy Scouts’ Ineligible Volunteer or “Perversion” Files and the successful outcome before the Oregon Supreme Court in forcing the Boy Scouts to make these internal documents public. The release of these files is one of the biggest breakthrough in […]
If You Quit Your Job, Can You Receive Unemployment Benefits? The Answer May Surprise You
May 1, 2014 By
As a general matter of law, someone who quits a job is not eligible for unemployment benefits in Oregon. However, there is an important exception to this law. An employee who quits for “good cause” may still be eligible to receive unemployment benefits under certain circumstances. This exception was recently demonstrated by an Employment Appeals […]
Richard Herbert Smith — Boy Scouts Perversion Files
May 1, 2014 By
Richard Herbert Smith was a volunteer Scoutmaster with Boy Scout Troop 269 in Tillamook, Oregon from 1981 until 1983. In July 1990, a paid Scout Executive working for the Columbia Pacific Council of the BSA sent a “Confidential Record Sheet” about Richard Herbert Smith to the national office of the Boy Scouts. The form cryptically […]
Robert Joseph Ewing — Boy Scouts Perversion Files
April 29, 2014 By
Oregon Cub Scout volunteer Robert Joseph Ewing was kicked out of the Boy Scouts in 1991 after his sister reported to BSA that he had an interest in underage boys. Ewing had been associated with Cub Scout Pack 777 in Florence, Oregon since 1990 when his sister alerted Boy Scout officials about Ewing’s past sexual […]
Hawaii Lawsuit Shows Need for Statute of Limitations Reform
April 26, 2014 By
The man who sued “X-Men” filmmaker Bryan Singer for raping him as a teenager has added claims against three more Hollywood executives last week. Michael Egan, who bravely and unusually used his own name in the litigation, alleges that he was an aspiring teen actor in Los Angeles when television executives Garth Ancier and David […]
Latest Victim of Fr. Maurice Grammond Catholic Archdiocese of Portland Sexual Abuse
April 22, 2014 By
View Complaint | View Press Release Over ten years after the Catholic Archdiocese of Portland first had knowledge that Father Maurice Grammond sexually abused boys, Grammond sexually molested another altar boy in his Seaside, Oregon parish, according to Portland attorney Gilion Dumas, of the Dumas Law Group, LLC.[1] A 52-year old Benton County man is […]
Do You Know James Allen Wilson?
April 19, 2014 By
BREAKING NEWS from Oregon.gov: A Prineville, Oregon Boy Scout volunteer James Allen Wilson has been indicted on charges of Sex Abuse in the First Degree. Following an investigation by Oregon State Police, James Allen Wilson, age 36, from Prineville, was indicted by a Klamath County Grand Jury and an arrest warrant issued. The investigation involved […]
WEBSITE PICTURES: Change Your Life Butterfly
April 18, 2014 By
We are trying to use only our own, original pictures on the Dumas Law Group website. Here’s the story behind the butterfly picture: My sister Tennison took this picture at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco when they were having a special butterfly exhibit. I was living in San Francisco at the time, she was […]
Lake Oswego School Lawsuit Settled
April 16, 2014 By
This week, the Lake Oswego School District approved the settlement of claims brought by five brave men who committed themselves to finding justice for the sexual abuse they suffered as children at the hands of their elementary school teacher. The men were in Judd W. Johnson’s fifth-grade class when, these men claimed, he sexually fondled […]
Oregon District Court Enforces Narrow Exception Rule Wrongful Discharge Case
April 15, 2014 By
An Oregon District Court has enforced the “narrow exception” rule in a wrongful discharge lawsuit brought against Vestas-American Wind Tech., Inc. The plaintiff, a former employee of the company was injured on the job and had filed a worker’s compensation claim and then went on leave pursuant to the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). When […]