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17 Trial Lawyer • Spring 2024 https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/news/press/release/gillibrand-introduces-era-now-resolutionrecognizing-equal-rights-amendment-as-28thamendment-novel-legal-strategy-would-help-enshrine-reproductive-rights-protections-in-theconstitution/ https://pressley.house.gov/2023/07/19/ahead-ofcentennial-pressley-moves-to-compel-vote-onequal-rights-amendment/ 14 Id. 15 https://www.hrc.org/our-work/stories/the-journeyto-marriage-equality-in-the-united-states 16 Id. 17 United States v. Windsor, 570 U.S. 744, 770-74, 133 S. Ct. 2675, 2693-95 (2013) 18 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-pressoffice/2013/08/08/president-obama-names-presidential-medal-freedom-recipients 19 https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Pardon-Certificate-Bayard-Rustin-02.04.2020.pdf 20 https://www.hrc.org/our-work/stories/the-journeyto-marriage-equality-in-the-united-states 21 https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3975654senate-gop-blocks-equal-rights-amendment/ 22 https://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-whitehistory-racist-foundations-black-exclusion-laws/ 23 Id. 24 Id. 25 Id. 26 https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/ Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/231341 27 https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/chinese_americans_in_oregon/#the-exclusion-period-1885-1940 28 Id. 29 https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/ww2/Pages/ threats-question.aspx 30 https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/ Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/231341 31 Id. 32 https://www.opb.org/television/programs/oregonexperience/article/oregon-japanese-americanshistory-2/ 33 https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/ww2/Pages/ threats-question.aspx 34 Id. 35 https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/hispanics_in_oregon/ 36 Id. 37 Id. 38 Id. 39 Id. 40 Id.; https://www.history.com/news/operationwetback-eisenhower-1954-deportation 41 https://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-records/signing-oregon39s-civil-rightsbill-1953/#.WXowzoTythF 42 Id. 43 Id. 44 2007 Or Laws, Ch. 100, §5 (adding “sexual orientation”); 2021 Or Laws, Ch. 367, §37 (adding “gender identity”). 45 https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/ whitest-states 46 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/ features/godinamerica-cold-war-modern/ 47 https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/whitearyan-resistance 48 https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/politicsandpolicies/Measure8 See, also, https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/ articles/oregon_citizens_alliance/#.YkH9CefMLGg 49 https://www.wweek.com/news/2018/10/31/hereswhat-happened-the-night-mulugeta-seraw-wasmurdered-and-afterward/ 50 Merrick v. Bd. of Higher Educ., 116 Or. App. 258 (1992) 51 Berhanu v. Metzger, 119 Or App 175, 177 (1993) (Elden Rosenthal argued that case, with him on the briefs was the Southern Poverty Law Center). 52 Li v. State, 338 Or 376, 383-84 (2005). 53 Id. at 384. 54 Id. at 384, 398. 55 United States v. Windsor, 570 U.S. 744, 746, 133 S. Ct. 2675, 2681, 186 L. Ed. 2d 808 (2013); Geiger v. Kitzhaber, 994 F. Supp. 2d 1128, 1147 (D. Or. 2014) 56 Geiger v. Kitzhaber, 994 F. Supp. 2d 1128, 1147 (D. Or. 2014) 57 Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644, 135 S. Ct. 2584, 192 L. Ed. 2d 609 (2015) 58 https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/10/21/ fbi-hate-crime-black-muslim-jewish 59 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/11/atimeline-of-the-george-floyd-and-anti-policebrutality-protests 60 Id. 61 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/25/ trump-directs-a-campaign-ad-in-portland-381423 62 https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/03/25/ asian-hate-crime-fbi-black-lgbtq 63 Id. 64 https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/state-data/ oregon#stats-or 65 https://www.doj.state.or.us/media-home/newsmedia-releases/oregon-criminal-justice-commission-cjc-annual-bias-report-shows-troublinggrowth-in-hate-and-bias-incidents-statewide/ 66 Id. 67 Id. 68 Id. 69 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org., 142 S. Ct. 2228, 213 L. Ed. 2d 545 (2022) 70 https://www.americanprogress.org/article/indobbs-by-overturning-roe-and-denying-the-rightto-an-abortion-the-supreme-court-has-attackedfreedom/ 71 https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/newest-attack-voting-rights-act https://www.documentcloud.org/ documents/24172336-arkansas-state-conferencenaacp-2023-11-20-8th-circuit-opinion 72 https://www.aclu-or.org/sites/default/files/Iss_ LGBT_chrono.pdf 73 https://www.oregonlive.com/news/erry2018/08/054cbcb825758/labor-commissioneraccuses-ore.html 74 https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/03/oregon-legislature-reaches-13m-settlement-oversexual-harassment.html 75 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/ jan/29/oregon-woman-awarded-1m-racist-discrimination-gas-station 76 https://www.opb.org/article/2023/04/07/racismoregon-employment-department-isela-ramosgonzalez/ 77 https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/09/blackadministrator-alleges-ohsu-stereotyped-her-asangry-black-woman-before-she-was-fired.html 78 https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2021/12/ ohsu-workers-file-class-action-discriminationsuit-claiming-culture-of-hostility.html 79 https://groups.io/g/rosecitytgirls 80 https://www.opb.org/article/2023/04/07/racismoregon-employment-department-isela-ramosgonzalez/ 81 https://www.opb.org/article/2021/12/14/employees-describe-culture-of-retaliation-under-deschutes-county-sheriff-shane-nelson/ https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/crimeandjustice/county-settles-for-527-000-with-sheriffsdeputy-who-alleged-gender-discrimination/ article_61d703ec-1709-11ec-b93b8f143def7889.html 82 https://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-capitolsexual-harassment-hostile-workplace/

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