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PRISON CONDITIONS
Anstett v. State of Oregon

3:01-cv-01619 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2001

Closed Date: 2007

On November 1, 2001, plaintiffs, current and former inmates of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) filed a class action complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, challenging the defendants' procedures and policies for testing and treating the Hepatitic C Virus (HCV) in the Oregon inmate population. The plaintiffs brought a number of federal and state law claims, including a claim that the ODOC's HCV treatment policies violated the Eighth Amendment's prohi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Morrison v. Hall

6:93-cv-06383 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Nov. 23, 1993

Closed Date: 2002

On November 23, 1993, an inmate at the Oregon State Penitentiary filed a lawsuit pro se under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against the Oregon Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiff alleged that his constitutional rights had been violated by the mail regulations at the prison, which resulted in the prison returning a magazine that the inmate received back to the publisher. On April 27, 1995, the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Judge Mic…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Marrs v. Cox

3:86-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: April 22, 1986

On April 22, 1986, prisoners at the Oregon State Prison filed a class action lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. On June 9, 1988, the parties entered into a consent decree, and the plaintiffs asked the court to hold the defendants in contempt and enforce the decree when the defendants later disobeyed the decree by refusing to have a corrections sergeant undergo psychiatric evaluation or mediation. On August 23, 1989, the …
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, Chad Wolf, the Department of Homeland Secu…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Prison Legal News v. Cook

3:98-cv-01344 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Oct. 29, 1998

Closed Date: 2001

On October 29, 1998, the Prison Legal News and inmates in Oregon prisons filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon against the Oregon Department of Corrections and several of its officials. The plaintiffs, who were represented by the Oregon Law Center and private counsel, sought injunctive relief as well as damages, alleging that the defendants' mail policy, as applied to subscription non-profit publications, violated due process and the First …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Prison Legal News v. Schumacher

3:02-cv-00428 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: April 2, 2002

Closed Date: 2003

On April 2, 2002, the Prison Legal News (PLN) filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon against the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC), alleging that the defendants' inmate mail policy, as applied to subscription non-profit publications, violated due process and the First Amendment rights of both the inmates and the non-profit publisher. This case followed a similar federal court action that PLN filed against the ODOC. See Prison Legal Ne…
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
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
Wolfe v. Portland

3:20-cv-01882 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involved allegations that local, state, and federal law enforcement failed to accommodate people with disabilities during public assemblies and protests. Four Portland, Oregon residents with disabilities, along with Disability Rights Oregon, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Portland) on November 1, 2020. Defendants included the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Director of the U.S. Marshals, the Superintendent of the Oregon Sta…
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 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 the Oregon Department of Human Services 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…