Issued by Tom Steenson: Attorney for the family and estate of James P. Chasse, Jr. Re: Chasse v. Humphreys, et al., Case No. CV-07-189-HU and PPB’s 9/23/09 “News Release” Over two years ago, the City of Portland and other defendants in the lawsuit sought a protective order barring the parties from releasing to the public […]
To: Sam Adams, Mayor of Portland, Oregon, Dan Saltzman, Commissioner of the Portland Police Bureau, Rosie Sizer, Chief of the Portland Police Bureau We, the signers of this petition, are persons in recovery from mental illness and addiction, their friends and family members, their neighbors, co-workers and colleagues, and members of the public. SIGN THIS […]
Editorial from Anna Griffin of the Oregonian, July 31 2009 Clayton Lance isn’t some pinko, Communist, civil libertarian do-gooder. The St. Helens lawyer earns a good living, usually representing paying clients accused of serious crimes like murder, assault or driving the getaway car for skater Nancy Kerrigan’s attackers. But when another lawyer asked for research […]
From The Oregonian, June 26 2009 Multnomah County is poised to pay its largest legal settlement, $925,000, to end its part in the federal civil rights lawsuit brought two and a half years ago by the family of James P. Chasse Jr. Multnomah County Chairman Ted Wheeler said the settlement, which commissioners will vote on […]
From the Portland Mercury, January 15 2009 Deputy District Attorney David Hannon had a surprise waiting for him in Room 536 of the Multnomah County Courthouse last Wednesday morning, January 7, in the form of attorney Elden Rosenthal. Hannon, whose salary is paid by the city as part of its controversial Neighborhood Livability Crime Enforcement […]
From Matt Davis at the Portland Mercury, January 7 2008 I’ve been at Multnomah Circuit Court all day watching hot-poop attorney Elden Rosenthal fight the city of Portland’s controversial secret list program on constitutional grounds, as a partner attorney to the ACLU of Oregon. The list targets the top 35 arrestees in Portland on a […]
Published in When You Were Fifteen, by Sam Adams At fifteen, life was difficult. There was a reason for that. I lived with my Dad. He was a heavy drinker. Our home life in Eugene was infused with alcohol. It was an often violent place. Once, a friend and I were on a binge. We […]
From the Portland Tribune, May 17, 2008 “Alien Boy,” a local documentary about a schizophrenic man who died in police custody in 2006 has been dragged into a legal tug-of-war between the victim’s family and the city of Portland. Portland filmmaker Brian Lindstrom has only just begun shooting the project, which focuses on the life […]
The PDF linked here is the response from City Attorney Jim Rice to James Chasse’s family attorneys in Chasse v Humphreys, from March 5, 2007
Eds. Note – The series of articles below list the steps the City of Portland made to secure the Athens Hotel from slumlords. They eventually turned it over to Central City Concern which remodeled it, renamed it “The Sally McCracken” and designated it the nation’s first intentional alcohol and drug free community. CITY LEASES ATHENS […]
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