Hall v. State

Plaintiff filed a report to police alleging that he had been poisoned on the job at the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility. After finding that plaintiff had not been poisoned, the Oregon Youth Authority (OYA) discharged him. OYA did so, at least in part, because it believed that plaintiff had filed a false report with police. Plaintiff responded with civil claims against OYA, among others, for violations of Oregon’s whistleblowing statutes, common-law wrongful discharge, and a denial of his civil rights to due process under 42 USC section 1983. The trial court granted defendants’ motion for…