In its slate of opinions published June 4, 2025, the Oregon Court of Appeals issued a precedential opinion in State of Oregon v. John Patrick Clark , reversing the case originally out of Deschutes County on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct during a rebuttal closing argument. During the State's rebuttal close, the prosecutor repeatedly called the defendant a "predator" and suggested that he was now preying on jurors by asking them to acquit him. The State went on to blame d

On September 30, 2024, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a conviction for honest-services mail fraud in USA v. Solakyan . Solakyan was charged as a primary participant in one of the largest workers’ compensation bribery schemes ever uncovered in San Diego County. As owner and operator of multiple medical imaging companies, Solakyan routed patients from complicit care providers to his own companies for unnecessary medical imaging, ultimately resulting in $263 million