by Ty Davison | Apr 18, 2023 | News & Commentary
Some Portland officers responded to LGBTQ+ training with racist feedback, report says – oregonlive.com: All officers last year were required to complete online training called “2022 Vocabulary in the LGBTQIA2S+ /Queer Community” as the bureau adopted...
by Ty Davison | Mar 17, 2023 | News & Commentary
Judge’s ruling could erase $1 million city payout to protester injured by officer – Salem Reporter: A federal judge may set aside the most costly civil verdict against the city of Salem in recent history after ruling recently that a city police officer had...
by Ty Davison | Jun 1, 2022 | News & Commentary
The amazing thing about the Depp-Heard defamation suit is that “actual malice,” the standard to prove defamation for someone who’s famous, is a difficult standard to meet. That’s why defamation suits are rarely brought by famous people in the...
by Ty Davison | May 10, 2022 | News & Commentary
Helping Amber Heard Was Just the Start of the ACLU’s Problems – The Atlantic: In 1978, the ACLU successfully defended the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois, a community populated by Holocaust survivors. But in 2018, following the ACLU’s...
by Ty Davison | May 10, 2022 | News & Commentary
Hard to believe this made it into law… The state of Oregon won’t keep fighting to enforce a first-in-the-nation ban on real estate “love letters” and will pay a Bend real estate group more than $60,000, according to a draft settlement filed in...