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MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Oregon Advocacy Center v. Mink

3:02-cv-00339 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: March 19, 2002

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon on March 19, 2002, by the Oregon Advocacy Center (“OAC”), representing criminal patients unable to stand trial due to mental illness; the Metropolitan Public Defender Services, Inc. (“MPD”); and a criminal patient who waited 23 days after being found unfit to stand trial before admittance to a proper mental health treatment facility. The plaintiffs sued the Oregon Department of Human Services (“DHS”) under the Protecti…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Blake v. City of Grants Pass

1:18-cv-01823 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2018

Case Ongoing

On October 15, 2018, individuals without secure housing filed this class-action lawsuit suing the city of Grants Pass, Oregon (the “City”) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the Oregon Law Center, the plaintiffs challenged the City’s enforcement of Grants Pass’s anti-sleeping ordinance, anti-camping ordinance, park exclusion ordinance, and criminal trespass laws stemming from violations of these ordinances as unconstitutional under the E…
CHILD WELFARE
Wyatt B. v. Brown

6:19-cv-00556 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: April 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

On April 16, 2019, ten children in the custody of the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of Oregon, the Director of the Oregon Department of Child Welfare, and ODHS, along with its director, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (42 U.S.C. § 12131(2)), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 USC § 794), the Adoption Assis…
POLICING
Pettibone v. Trump

3:20-cv-01464 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Aug. 26, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is about the federal law enforcement mission, “Operation Diligent Valor,” directed by the Department of Homeland Security against protestors during the widespread racial justice protests in Portland, Oregon in the summer of 2020. Individual Oregon residents along with Black Millennial Movement and Rose City Justice, Inc. brought this lawsuit on August 26, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon against President Donald Trump, Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, the Depa…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
McCarter v. Brown

6:20-cv-01048 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 30, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 17, 2020

This case was about the constitutionality of the Governor of Oregon’s COVID-19 executive orders and the signature requirements for ballot initiatives for the 2020 general election. The plaintiff, an Oregon registered voter and president of an Oregon nonprofit organization, “Move Oregon’s Border,” filed this complaint pro se in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon on June 30, 2020, against the Governor and Secretary of State of Oregon, in addition to seventeen county clerks in the …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
People Not Politicians Oregon v. Clarno

6:20-cv-01053 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 30, 2020

Closed Date: June 10, 2021

This case is about the constitutionality of Oregon’s signature requirements for ballot initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs, five Oregon nonprofit organizations and one Oregon resident who was the chief petitioner for the ballot initiative, proposed to amend the Oregon Constitution in 2019 and started gathering the required signatures needed to get the proposal on the ballot for the November 2020 general election. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, filed their c…
POLICING
American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon v. City of Portland

Oregon state trial court

Filed Date: July 29, 2020

Closed Date: April 8, 2022

This complaint was brought in the County of Multnomah Circuit Court for the State of Oregon on July 29, 2020. The suit was brought by the ACLU of Oregon and an anonymous individual plaintiff ("Protester 1") against the City of Portland. The plaintiffs were represented by attorneys from the ACLU of Oregon and private counsel. The complaint came amidst police crackdowns on protests against police brutality that followed the killing of George Floyd. According to the complaint, the Portland Police …
POLICING
Wise v. Portland

3:20-cv-01193 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: July 24, 2020

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on July 22, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon by four individual plaintiffs represented by the ACLU Foundation of Oregon and private counsel. The complaint arose out of the protests that followed the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020. After Mr. Floyd's killing protests broke out across the country condemning what happened to Mr. Floyd, police brutality, and racial inequality more generally. While the protests were mostly peaceful, ther…
POLICING
Western States Center v. Department of Homeland Security

3:20-cv-01175 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: July 21, 2020

Closed Date: March 15, 2022

This lawsuit, filed on July 21, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, was brought by the Western State Center (a public benefit corporation), the First Unitarian Church of Portland, a private individual, and two Oregon State Representatives. Represented by private attorneys, they sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Federal Protective Service, and the U.S. Marshal Service over the defendants' presence and role in quelling p…
POLICING
Index Newspapers LLC v. City of Portland

3:20-cv-01035 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class action lawsuit was filed on June 28, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. The case was brought by members of the media and legal observers against the City of Portland and sixty unnamed Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officers amidst the protests that followed the police killing of George Floyd. Plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU Foundation of Oregon. The complaint alleged that PPB had a pattern of targeting and retaliating against journalists and neutral obs…