Vannatta v. Oregon Government Ethics Commission

Plaintiffs Fred Vannatta and Center To Protect Free Speech, Inc., brought this action for declaratory and injunc-tive relief, asserting that ORS 244.025(1) - (4) and ORS 244.042 (which, in general terms, regulate the solicitation, offering, and receipt of gifts by certain public and other persons) violate Article I, sections 8 and 26, of the Oregon Constitution and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and therefore are unenforceable. We discuss the content of those statutes in greater detail below.

The trial court rejected plaintiffs’ constitutional arguments and granted…