Former Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) must testify in a lawsuit filed by a class of prisoners who allege the state corrections system didn’t do enough to protect them from contracting Covid-19, a divided Ninth Circuit panel ruled.
The state unsuccessfully sought to quash a district court order compelling Brown—who served as governor from 2015 to 2023—to be deposed in the case. The lawsuit, which was originally filed in April 2020 and has since been amended several times, alleges that the state’s various pandemic response policies violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, as well as state ...
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