PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal lawsuit related to the shooting of rancher Robert LaVoy Finicum has been dismissed. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports the civil suit was filed in U.S. District Court of Oregon by Ryan Payne, Shawna Cox and others who were associated with the Bundy family’s 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. They claimed that FBI agents, Oregon State Police and …
Do We Have the Right to Vote for President? The Supreme Court Says “No!” In Bush v Gore (2000) the Supreme Court said when the State Legislature vests the right to vote for President in its people, the State can take it back at any time. A lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Portland, Oregon, asserts in a new, straight-forward interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that Section 2 of the amendment grants the right to vote for President to all qualified citizens of the United States. In 1875 the Supreme Court ruled that Section 2 only exists to allow states to deny the right to vote to their “colored populations,” a ruling the court has never contradicted. …
Buy Photo Clyde Saiki, Director of Oregon Department of Human Services, meets with the Statesman Journal for an interview on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, in Salem. (Photo: DANIELLE PETERSON / Statesman Journal)Buy Photo 673 CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN2 COMMENTEMAILMORE Lawyers representing Oregon foster children have filed a class action lawsuit in federal court asking a judge to end the Oregon …
The State of Oregon has filed lawsuits against people it says were responsible for starting two forest fires. The state filed one lawsuit against a man who is accused of napping while his campfire sparked a 200-acre Southern Oregon blaze, according to the Oregonian/OregonLive. In that case filed against Joe Thurmond Askins, his wife and step-daughter, the state is seeking almost …
The Westland Irrigation District has responded to a lawsuit filed by long-time patrons who argue they’ve been cheated out of water for years to benefit large farms with junior water rights. Attorneys for the district are trying to get the case dismissed from federal court over lack of jurisdiction. A motion was filed Friday which states the plaintiffs did not exhaust their legal remedies by …
Oregon police and two FBI agents could face a lawsuit from the widow of an Arizona rancher who took part in the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation and was killed in a confrontation with authorities. California-based lawyer Brian Claypool told the Oregonian/OregonLive that the lawsuit on behalf of Jeanette Finicum and the family has not been …
State attorneys told a judge that Linn County shouldn’t be allowed to represent other timber counties in a lawsuit that seeks $1.4 billion from Oregon because of its forest-management practices. The county wants the case to proceed as a class action. Scott Kaplan, an attorney for the state, said during oral arguments Wednesday that would be impractical because there are different …
Six months after the lopsided defeat of a union campaign at Portland Specialty Baking, a group of workers there have filed a lawsuit accusing the company of violating Oregon wage and hour and sick leave laws. Working with the non-profit Northwest Workers’ Justice Project, attorneys Corinna Spencer-Scheurich, Michael Dale, and Phil Goldsmith filed the suit Aug. 8 in Multnomah County …
Back at the beginning of 2016, while Oregon’s recreational cannabis industry really got rolling, Bradley Lillie of Eugene, Oregon, filed a class-action lawsuit against Guardian Mite Spray makers All In Enterprises. The reason he filed this lawsuit was because the “all natural” mite spray to prevent a common cannabis plant problem was not all natural. In February, …
Portland City Commissioner Amanda Fritz settled her lawsuit earlier this month against the last defendant accused of contributing to the death of her husband in a rainy head-on collision on Interstate 5, court records show. Amanda Fritz agreed to a total of $1.75 million for the Sept. 24, 2014, crash that killed Steve Fritz in his 1993 zebra-striped Nissan Sentra. Although attorneys involved in …