Appeal In Journalists’ Class Suit Over Portland Protests Treatment Held In Abeyance

Mealey's (February 17, 2021, 9:12 AM EST) -- PORTLAND, Ore. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 12 granted the federal government’s motion to hold in abeyance the government’s appeal of a preliminary injunction issued in a putative class complaint by journalists and legal observers who say they have been targeted by police and federal agents while covering protests in Portland and ordered that a status report should be filed by March 15 and at 30-day intervals thereafter....