Posted on 07/03/2023 4:02:06 PM PDT by Lakeside Granny
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the law that prohibits recording in the state of Oregon.
James O’Keefe and Project Veritas filed the lawsuit in Portland, Oregon back in 2020.
In Project Veritas vs Schmidt, the organization argued it had a right to engage in undercover journalism and record people without their consent.
“WON in Ninth Circuit – Federal Appeals Court STRIKES DOWN Oregon criminal recording law” James O’Keefe said boasting about his win.
“It violates the 1st amendment right to free speech, INVALID ON ITS FACE” – the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said in its ruling.
“Oregon Revised Statute 165.540(1)(c). This law prohibited anyone from making an audio recording unless that person “specifically informed” others they were recording. But the law also included special permissions from the government to allow for non-notified recording of the police, but not any other government employee,” O’Keefe said.
“That just leaves the government putting its thumb on the lens of newsgathering, deciding which news is easiest to get and skewing reporting. Like the Ninth Circuit has explained before, whatever concerns Oregon has over shoddy reporting or “fake news,” the remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true and not the suppression of speech.” O’Keefe added.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
this is really good news. a lot of the bull shit can be exposed in Portland with this ruling.
Good news.
Wonderful!!!!!
NOT GOOD ENOUGH, There should e severe monetary penalties against every person that enforced this law, maybe even Jail Time. I think 2 years in jail should teach them a lesson, So it doesn’t happen again
O’Keefe has never lost a lawsuit.
Chalk another one up for free speech.
Good for Jim, good for the nation!
later
Will that mean when AntiFa blocks recording of their riots (by forcefully obscuring the view, or by slapping cameras to the ground) they will be committing a Federal Civil Rights violation?
(Sorry for the garbled prose, I’m presently not feeling well)
I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to get the Portland DA and Mayor out of the loop in this, as they have been providing active cover for those commie pukes.
James O’Keefe’s tweet......
James O’Keefe
@JamesOKeefeIII
BREAKING NEWS:
PORTLAND, Ore. (OMG) the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has OVERTURNED the law that prohibits recording in the state of Oregon on the grounds it violates the 1st amendment. I filed the lawsuit (PVA v Schmidt) with attorney Benjamin Barr and Steve Klein at the Marc O. Hatfield courthouse in Chapman square in downtown Portland with heavy security three years ago.
Oregon Revised Statute 165.540(1)(c). This law prohibited anyone from making an audio recording unless that person “specifically informed” others they were recording. But the law also included special permissions from government to allow for non-notified recording of the police, but not any other government employee.
That just leaves government putting its thumb on the lens of newsgathering, deciding which news is easiest to get and skewing reporting. Like the Ninth Circuit has explained before, whatever concerns Oregon has over shoddy reporting or “fake news,” the remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true and not the suppression of speech.
Oregon has no power to protect the conversational privacy of some people in a public place from the First Amendment protected newsgathering of other individuals. Because the law lets government distort the newsgaterhing process and bans entirely too much effective journalism, it violated the First Amendment on its face.
Circuit Judge Sandra S. Ikuta out of the 9th circuit in Pasadena, California authored the opinion. Ikuta wrote, “Oregon does not have a compelling interest in protecting individuals’ conversational privacy from other individuals’ protected speech in places open to the public, even if that protected speech consists of creating audio or visual recordings of other people.”
https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1675920148832591872
WON in Ninth Circuit - Federal Appeals Court STRIKES DOWN Oregon criminal recording law: “It violates the 1st amendment right to free speech, INVALID ON ITS FACE”
The Travel/time.. the $ for lawyers..Security in black cars in Portland. Winning has a price. Leadership has a price! pic.twitter.com/YhEcTedEvF— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) July 3, 2023
Didn’t the people investigating body parts from abortions get into trouble for recording secretly?
Ah ha, so that lawsuit involved Mr. O’Keefe. I didn’t know that, but still great news!
Hopefully, this also gets into law everywhere. Florida has an law that prohibits recording too.
Yes.
Indeed
Bravo!!!
Thanks for posting.
Just a couple days ago, the neo-Marxist Ninth Circuit made another decision that shocked me.
I will have research that - I cannot recall what it was at this moment.
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