March 23, 2026
Oregon's liquor and cannabis authority has defeated, for now, a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by its deputy director who was fired in the wake of a liquor scandal, with a federal judge saying the ex-employee's choice to retire doesn't prove the existence of some unwritten separation agreement.
June 06, 2025
The Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission is urging a federal court to throw out a suit from its former deputy director alleging that the OLCC breached his employment agreement by firing him following a whiskey pocketing scandal, saying the state's Statute of Frauds voids the alleged employment agreement.
April 14, 2025
The former deputy director of Oregon's liquor and cannabis regulator has alleged in a lawsuit recently removed to federal court that he was wrongfully terminated in connection with a scandal in which agency officials were accused of pocketing rare whiskeys.