Newport man sues Lincoln County contending his rights were violated when he was banned from continuously protesting his father’s “forced retirement” from his county job.

Lincoln County Commissioners (top), Courthouse (bottom)

A Newport man who vigorously protested what he claimed was his father’s forced retirement and who was later jailed twice for his methods of protesting, has filed suit in Federal Court in Eugene, contending his civil rights were violated and that he was wrongly arrested and maliciously prosecuted.

The story is in the Oregonian. Click here.

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