Federal Agencies Seek Reversal Of Portland Injunction In Journalists’ Class Suit

Mealey's (November 5, 2020, 8:25 AM EST) -- PORTLAND, Ore. — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) filed an appellant brief on Oct. 14 in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals seeking reversal of a preliminary injunction in a class complaint by journalists and legal observers who say they have been targeted by police and federal agents while covering protests in Portland, arguing that the decision “rests on legal error” and “imposes unworkable conditions on federal law-enforcement officers responding to violent protests” (Index Newspapers LLC, et al. v. United States Marshals Service, et al., No. 20-35739, 9th Cir.)....