January 04, 2023
An Oregon hospital network can't pursue its constitutional claims against the state's labor bureau over a mandate for when nurses take 30-minute breaks, a federal judge ruled, saying sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment and U.S. Supreme Court precedent bars the suit from remaining in federal court.
August 29, 2022
An Oregon hospital network is fighting to preserve its challenge to the state's standards for when nurses can take breaks, arguing that, contrary to state regulators' contention, the lawsuit belongs in federal court.
July 25, 2022
Oregon's labor department is looking to shed a hospital network's challenge to a state mandate for nurses to take a 30-minute break about a quarter of the way into their 12-hour shifts, telling a judge that the case is not appropriate for federal court.
April 19, 2022
An Oregon state rule requiring nurses to take a 30-minute meal break during a two-hour window is "onerous and restrictive" and disrupts hospital business, a hospital system said in a federal suit.