January 2024 - Page 7

By KELSEY REICHMAN/Courthouse News Service WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide if cities can punish homeless people for sleeping on public lands. The case before the court stems from Grants Pass, Ore. but the longer legal battle over criminalizing homelessness stretches across the West Coast. In 2006, people living on Los Angeles’ Skid Row sued the city

By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — The Oregon Supreme Court will defer to the U.S. Supreme Court and won’t hear a court case challenging former President Donald Trump’s ability to appear on Oregon ballots. A group of Oregon voters asked the state court in December to order Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade to keep Trump off the primary and general election

By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — The state ethics commission has chosen one of its own to be its next executive director. In a unanimous vote among the eight members present, the nine-member Oregon Government Ethics Commission voted in favor of promoting Susan Myers, a commission employee since 2018 and its current compliance and education coordinator. The vote followed