Portnoy v. McNamara

Plaintiff, a professional bail bondsman doing business in defendant city, brought suit in the circuit court for Multnomah County against the city and several of its officials challenging the validity of the city’s ordinance licensing and regulating bail bondsmen. ① In his suit plaintiff prayed for a decree “restraining defendants from taking any action interfering with plaintiff’s continuing his business, [and] declaring plaintiff is not subject to the claimed regulatory powers set forth in [the] ordinances * * After trial on the merits the court entered a decree for defendants and dismissed…