Court Cases

The ACLU hails the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling respecting the right of mentally competent, terminally ill persons to make end-of-life decisions in consultation with their doctors, and rejecting the federal government’s misguided effort to interfere with those decisions.

Booksellers, Publishers, Librarians and Others Challenge Censorship Law

This case is a follow up to Noble v. Board of Parole (1998) in which the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that due process requires the Board to provide an evidentiary hearing to a registered sex offender before it could label that person a "predatory sex offender" (and notify the community of that label)

The Oregon Supreme Court held that a physical impairment corrected by mitigating measures does not rise to the level of a disability under a state disability act. The Court reversed a Court of Appeals decision.