'If a Business Opens Against a Mandate, You Can't Come After Their Kids. You Can't Threaten Their Li

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https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jeff-reynolds/2020/05/28/exclusive-oregon-salon-owner-files-tort-claim-starts-foundation-to-help-small-business-n437835
BY JEFF REYNOLDS, MAY 28, 2020 2:41 PM EST
'If a Business Opens Against a Mandate, You Can't Come After Their Kids. You Can't Threaten Their License.'

In an exclusive interview with PJ Media Wednesday, Lindsey Graham, the owner of Glamour Salon in Salem, Oregon said she has continued to fight, while setting up a new foundation to help other small businesses fight back. She has also filed a tort claim with the state and various agencies that subjected her to coordinated harassment, informing them of a future lawsuit.

Graham reopened her salon earlier in May, in defiance of the lockdown orders of Governor Kate Brown (D-Portland) in the midst of the CCP coronavirus pandemic. In response, the state used the full weight of the government to harass her into compliance.

Graham says she was targeted by Child Protective Services (CPS), Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA), the state licensing board under Oregon Health Authority (OHA), and by a social media mob fueled by political outrage.
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Making the agencies defendants in the same suit will subject them to discovery laws, so at some point she expects to find out who coordinated all the attacks she endured from state agencies.

Besides warning these agencies that they will be sued, it also brings into play laws that forbid destroying/deleting documents and records that may be subject to discovery.

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An update on this story, https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jeff-reynolds/2020/07/10/exclusive-oregon-salon-owner-sues-over-state-sanctioned-shutdown-harassment-i-cant-back-down-now-n629806

Salon Owner Sues Oregon Over State-Sanctioned Shutdown Harassment—'I Can't Back Down Now'

Lindsey Graham, the owner of Glamour Salon in Salem, Oregon, filed suit in federal court on Thursday against Governor Kate Brown (D-Portland), the State of Oregon, and the multitude of state agencies Brown sicced on her. Graham reopened her business in May in defiance of Brown’s coronavirus lockdown orders, and soon found herself the target of coordinated harassment by the state.
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Graham said in the interview that the lawsuit focused on violations of her civil rights by the State of Oregon. She received threats and fines from Oregon Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division and had a bogus complaint filed against her at Child Protective Services (CPS), triggering several visits to her home and interviews with her family.

“We filed because the state violated my right to due process,” Graham said. “At no time did I get a chance to prove that my business could operate safely and maintain social distancing. We also filed on the equal access under the law part of the constitution. My lawyer found a clause in Kate Brown’s executive orders closing salons that explicitly exempts hair salons at nursing homes. So the most vulnerable members of our society could get their hair done, but somehow my business is more dangerous?”
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The lawsuit was filed in federal court to avoid the bias Graham and her attorneys fear from state courts. “Kate Brown has appointed all the judges in the Oregon courts,” she said. “We wanted to go over her, where she doesn’t have jurisdiction.”

A previous lawsuit filed by several churches initially resulted in a stay on Brown’s emergency orders. The state Supreme Court reversed that stay the very same day. Notably, Kate Brown appointed five of the seven justices on the Supreme Court, and prior Democrat governors appointed the other two.