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The article discusses that Supreme Court blocked an injunction easing Oregon's requirements for placing a referendum on partisan gerrymandering on the 2020 November ballot.

The article reports on the decision of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court on the water runoff case of the logging companies and forestry officials in Oregon.

''Twelve Angry Men'' might have been a much shorter movie had it been set in Oregon. Instead of letting Juror No. 8, the lone holdout played by Henry Fonda, methodically convince his fellow jurors that there was good reason to doubt the defendant's guilt, an Oregon jury might have just voted and been done with it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on a lawsuit filed by the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon accusing the Recording Industry Association of America Inc. of violating students' privacy and engaging in dubious investigative practice. It informs that the Association had sent a subpoena to the university asking it to provide information about 17 students who had shared music of certain artists on a file-sharing network. It reports that recording associations offer student offenders out of court settlements.

The article reports on the court ruling that rejects the Justice Department's petition to block the state's practice of physician-assisted suicides for terminally ill people in Oregon.

Reports on a San Francisco federal appeals court ruling which held that U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft overstepped his authority when he issued a directive prohibiting doctors in Oregon from prescribing lethal drugs to terminally ill patients notwithstanding the state's Death With Dignity Act.

Reports that a federal appeals court upheld the only law in the nation authorizing doctors to help their terminally ill patients commit suicide. Ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco that the Justice Department does not have the power to punish the doctors involved; Rebuke of Attorney General John Ashcroft, saying he had overstepped his authority in trying to block enforcement of the state law, Oregon's Death with Dignity Act; Review of the decision by lawyers for the Justice Department.

Reports on the decision of a federal judge in Oregon to reject an effort by the U.S. Department of Justice to block the state's assisted suicide law, as of April 2002.