Lance Dodd, Inc. v. State ex rel. Real Estate Commissioner

This is an appeal from the circuit court’s denial of declaratory and injunctive relief.

Lance Dodd, Inc. (Dodd) is in the business of providing listings of rental housing available in the Portland area. Dodd receives its information, such as location, number of bedrooms, amount of rent and appliances provided, directly from landlords and passes the information along to its customers. It does not inspect the property, verify the information or perform any other service itself or as an agent. The information is compiled in a "book,” indexed according to location, kept at Dodd’s office. Customers…