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Publisher plans lawsuit over magazine removal
Lane County Commissioners Rogers, Roberts to be named as defendants
By Don Peters
Emerald Associate Editor
The removal of an environ
mental magazine from a Lane
County Courthouse information
booth last May has again raised
controversy.
lame County Commissioners
Jack Roberts and Hill Rogers are
co-defendants in a $50,000 law
suit that may he brought by the
publisher of the magazine For
est Voice.
A letter from the attorney of
Tim Hermach. executive direc
tor of the Native Forest Coun
cil. descrilies how Rogers and
Roberts "violated the First
Amen d m e n t rights of
(Hermach). his organization
and of persons who picked up
copies of Fnrvsl Voiev at that
place from time to time "
The letter, dated Oct 18.
asks both commissioners to
sign an apology to Hermach
and the Native Forest (Council,
and to pay a $2, MM) settlement
If the commissioners sign.
Hermach will drop the threat
ened suit II Rogers and Roberts
refuse, the suit will la- filed
( k I 20. the letter said
''They (.ailed us radical pres
ervationists.” Hermach said
“They called our literature oh
scene They slanted people
against us
Alter public outcry last May,
the county commissioners voi
c'd 3-2 (Rogers and Roberts dis
senting) to create a 'free
speech” rac k at the courthouse
for publications such as Forest
Voiir and the timber industry
magazine Timber! Only govern
merit-produced literature is
now available in the informa
tion booth
"Basically, this comes from
something I thought we got re
solved a long time ago." Rob
erts said in a phone interview
Monday "I'm a little surprised
he wants to make an issue of it.
hut that's lus right
Hormach said the free speech
rack was an inadequate solu
tion to the problem
"It was never resolved."
Ilermach said "(Rogers and
Roberts| haven't retracted any
thing. and even if they had. the
free speei h rack isn't a viable
solution We were waiting to
see what would happen If they
had made a good faith effort to
apologize, we could have bent
a little and let it ride."
liermach said the free speech
rac k "is off in the corner" of
the courthouse, and the maga
zines have to be removed every
Kriday at :t p m and put back
Monday morning
"It's not just an inconve
nience. it's harassment." he
said "Roberts is just doing the
bidding of the timber industry
and ignoring the Constitution."
Roberts said the information
laxith was never intended as a
public forum, and never should
have l**en treated as one.
Roberts said he would not
sign the" letter, and Hermach
Jack Roberts
said ho didn I expect either ot
the commissioners to comply.
Rogers was unavailable for
comment.
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