Ha ha!
Well, Duh
Bet they try to cancel the judge now?
I just found out physically what Rolling on Floor Laughing my A@@ off feels like.
I like it.
These important protests have, in Portland, centered on a four-block area that includes the U.S. Courthouse, known as the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse. By virtue of it being a federal building, the law enforcement personnel involved are federal agents. One of the most difficult tasks for law enforcement in a free country like ours is to support robust protests while still maintaining order through lawful methods. This is even more challenging when the subject of the protests concerns police tactics. It is not unusual, following Case 3:20-cv-01161-MO Document 23 Filed 07/24/20 Page 1 of 14 2 – OPINION AND ORDER major protests, for some of the people involved to allege that the police crossed a line—a constitutional line—in the course of their interactions. It is also common for these interactions to result in lawsuits, with protesters contending the police violated their First and Fourth Amendment rights and seeking redress by money damages and injunctive relief.
There is a well-established body of law paving the way for such lawsuits to move forward in federal court.
This is not such a lawsuit. It is a very different case, a highly unusual one with a particular set of rules. In the first place, although it involves allegations of harm done to protesters by law enforcement, no protester is a plaintiff here. Instead, it is brought by the State of Oregon under a rarely used doctrine called parens patriae. In the second place, it is not seeking redress for any harm that has been done to protesters.
Instead, it seeks an injunction against future conduct, which is also an extraordinary form of relief. Under the governing law for such cases, the State of Oregon must make a very particularized showing in order to have standing to bring a parens patriae lawsuit, a task made even more challenging by the nature of the remedy it seeks.
Because it has failed to do so—most fundamentally, because it has not shown it is vindicating an interest that is specific to the state itself—I find the State of Oregon lacks standing here and therefore deny its request for a temporary restraining order.
No surprise here. This is all totally legal!!
Remember that the Judge sits in the very building that the rioters are trying to burn down.
I’m sure there’s a judge in Hawaii that will grant a national TRO. Just a matter of time.....
I hate it when TRO does that. What’s a TRO?
OREGON PING
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Every time I read a string of Twitter comments I wonder why anyone would frequent the place.
More popcorn!!!
Duh.
TRO = Temporary Restraining Order
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Hard to believe that a majority of voters in Oregon and Washington state still support these bizarre governors. Anyone know if the laws of those states allow for recall petitions ans elections? If there was ever a need for an abrupt change in leadership its in those states.
There surely ought to be some lawsuits against the Mayor, the po po, and the rioters by by Portland residents and property Owners. Would like to see the Feds support them
Fraulein Brown is not going to like this.
This is insane. Where the heck is Bagpipe Bill? AWOL as usual it seems.
The Portland DA and Antifa have been planning this for a while.