Project Veritas Defeats Oregon’s Two-Party Consent to Record Law

Oregon’s two-party consent to record law violates the First Amendment, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday.

Project Veritas, a conservative undercover media outlet, sued the state in a pre-enforcement challenge. It argued that Oregon’s exemptions for recording life-endangering felonies and for recording police officers impermissibly favored some secret recordings of officials over others, like that of city council and school board members. Oregon won a motion to dismiss, which was appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The court said its analysis of the Oregon law was guided in large part by Animal Legal Def. Fund v. ...