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ACLU lawsuit challenges Oregon city police over surveillance

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Oregon filed a lawsuit against the city of Medford, Oregon, on Tuesday, alleging that the city’s law enforcement authorities have been surveilling and illegally gathering information on the complainants for years. Police continued to monitor protests against the overturning of Roe v.

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“Is a steak knife a weapon? Oregon Supreme Court takes a stab at it; Oregon asserted that a state statute prevents probationers from owing kitchen knife blocks — depending on the size of the blades in the block.”

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Oregon Supreme Court takes a stab at it; Oregon asserted that a state statute prevents probationers from owing kitchen knife blocks — depending on the size of the blades in the block.” The Supreme Court of Oregon has posted the video of today’s oral argument online at this link.

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“Jury finds Madras man guilty of unlawful use of a gun in 2017 road rage encounter on U.S. 26”

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Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this decision overturning the conviction, holding that federal prosecutors had improperly “assimilated into federal criminal law Oregon’s unlawful use of a weapon statute” to apply to a a road rage incident on a highway in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in central Oregon.

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Twelve cases added to Supreme Court calendar

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Share The Supreme Court on Friday issued orders from its so-called “long conference” – the justices’ private conference in the last week of September, at which they met for the first time since the end of June to add new cases to their docket. The trial court rejected that argument, and the California Court of Appeals agreed.

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Union fees, bar association dues, and the funding of political speech

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Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, First Amendment challenges to the use of membership fees by a union or bar association to engage in political speech, as well as the definition of a state “tax” under the federal Tax Injunction Act. Oregon State Bar.

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United States: Opening Pandora's Box: Oregon Court Of Appeals Holds That "Any Person" Can Be Held Liable Under Oregon's Aiding And Abetting Statute - Littler Mendelson

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and Quicksilver Contracting Company, the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of the plaintiff's "aiding and abetting" discrimination and retaliation claim. On June 23, 2021, in Charlton v. Ed Staub and Sons Petroleum, Inc.

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Environmental Rights in State Constitutions

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The district court in Oregon in 2016 seemed to favor such a right, but a divided Ninth Circuit concluded in 2020 that the plaintiffs lacked standing. The plaintiffs are now back in the district court seeking much more modest relief.). The court found that this would violate the political question doctrine.

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