Measure 5-190 Exceeded Columbia County Jurisdiction and Violates Federal Law
UPDATE: July 2009 – The court entered the ACLU’s proposed summary judgment order and general judgment on May 28, 2009.
April 13, 2009, St. Helens - A Columbia County judge today overturned an anti-immigrant ballot measure approved last fall because it conflicts with federal immigration law and would have required the county to take enforcement actions beyond its authority.
On November 4, 2003, the Oregon Supreme Court heard oral argument and took under advisement two free expression cases, State v. Ciancanelli, and City of Nyssa v. Dufloth. Both cases raise the most important free speech and expression issues that have arisen in Oregon in the last twenty years.
2004 - The ACLU seeks to end Oregon's exclusion of gay and lesbian couples from marriage rights.
September 2005 - Our settlement with Jackson County officials over a strip search of female inmates that occurred two years ago has now been finalized.
ACLU of Oregon Calls Boy Scout Decision ‘Shameful’
Sept. 8, 2006 - The court held that it is not illegal for discriminatory organizations to recruit students in public school settings during school hours as long as the organization sanitizes its message, removing any mention that not all students can join.
June 22, 2006 - The American Civil Liberties Union, today, in a letter from the Southern Oregon Chapter of the ACLU of Oregon, told Ashland Mayor John Morrison and the City Council that it had “grave concerns about the Ashland Police Department’s development and uses of a ‘Watch List’ of 24 downtown persons regarded as ‘nuisances,’” and about the Department distributing the list to the Chamber of Commerce.