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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2017 Zinke recommendation to cut Cascade-Siskiyou questioned Everett asks judge to let case against OxyContin maker proceed By PHUONG LE Associated Press SEATTLE — Everett says the pain medication OxyCon- tin has devastated the com- munity and asked a federal judge Monday to let it move forward with a lawsuit seek- ing to hold the pill’s man- ufacturer accountable for damages. The working-class city of about 108,000 north of Seat- tle sued Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma in January, alleging the company know- ingly allowed pills to be fun- neled into the black market and into the city and did noth- ing to stop it. Purdue fi led a motion to dismiss in March. Before hearing arguments Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Ricardo S. Martinez called the case an interesting one with some novel legal issues. Purdue attorney Patrick Fitzgerald told the judge the case should be tossed for a number of reasons. Among them, the city fails to show a direct relationship between the company’s conduct and the alleged harms. “It’s a textbook example of remoteness,” Fitzgerald said. He argued there are nine steps — including wrong- doing by pharmacies and criminal gangs — between Purdue’s conduct and the expenses the city incurred in responding to the problems of opioid addiction. The lawyer for the city, Christopher Huck, told the judge that emails and other internal documents show that Purdue knowingly put their painkillers into a sup- ply chain they knew ended at an organized drug ring, and the city has suffered for it. The city should be allowed to make its case at trial, he said. “OxyContin has devas- tated the community and infl icted enormous harm,” said Huck, who was joined at the table by Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson. The injury here is the diversion and mis- use of OxyContin and the damages is what the city had had to deal with that harm, Huck said. Three city council mem- bers, the police chief and oth- ers fi lled the benches in the courtroom Monday. “Our city has been signifi - cantly damaged. Obviously, we hope the case is not dis- missed and goes forward on its merits,” the mayor said outside the courtroom. “Our community needs help. And clearly we believe our city has been damaged by this crisis.” Purdue knew their pills were going into the black market, had an obligation to report it and they didn’t do that, Stephanson said. Fitzgerald argued in court that there’s no proof Purdue was dealing to drug dealers and noted that Purdue pro- vided pills to a wholesaler. The company argued Monday that the statute of limitations has passed for the city to fi le the lawsuit. In court documents, it also argued that city can’t hold it responsible for illegal traf- fi cking when law enforce- ment offi cials knew and were already investigating crimi- nal traffi cking at issue. The lawsuit doesn’t say how much money the city is seeking. Stephanson said that will be determined in the weeks and months to come. Everett fi led its lawsuit after the Los Angeles Times reported that Purdue had evi- dence that pointed to ille- gal traffi cking of its pills but in many cases did nothing to notify authorities or stop the fl ow. That newspaper inves- tigation prompted the city’s lawsuit. Last week, a second city in Washington state, Tacoma, sued Purdue Pharma and two other opioid manufacturers, Endo Health Solutions and Janssen Pharmaceuticals. That lawsuit alleges the com- panies made false and mis- leading statements about the benefi ts and risks of opioids to doctors and patients over the past two decades. Hunting, fi shing already protected By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT WEDNESDAY 64 46 Mostly cloudy with rain tapering off Clouds and sun with a shower or two ALMANAC Mostly cloudy First Salem 51/60 Newport 50/57 Sep 27 Last Oct 5 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 8:14 a.m. 8:34 p.m. Low -0.6 ft. 0.0 ft. REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 57 58 59 60 62 53 61 65 59 61 Today Lo 39 42 53 49 51 45 51 53 50 53 W r pc c r r pc c r r r Hi 57 55 58 57 61 52 60 62 57 60 Wed. Lo 32 33 49 45 51 30 43 47 48 49 W r r r r r r r r r r City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 61 64 63 62 63 62 54 61 64 66 Today Lo 46 48 52 53 51 51 40 51 52 41 W r c r r r r r r r c Hi 59 59 59 60 60 61 51 59 61 60 Wed. 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Shoreline Sanitary District Board, 7 p.m., Gearhart Hertig Station, 33496 West Lake Lane, Warrenton. WEDNESDAY Seaside Tourism Advisory Com- mittee, 3 p.m., 989 Broadway. OBITUARY POLICY PACKAGE DEALS APPLIANCE AND HOME FURNISHINGS 529 SE MARLIN, WARRENTON 503-861-0929 O VER Mattresses, Furniture 3 A 0 RS TSOP C LA U Y C O NT TACOMA, Wash. — Tribal leaders might move ahead with their own plan to tax carbon emissions in Washington state after another group working on a statewide carbon-tax ini- tiative for the November 2018 ballot failed to include the tribes when developing a proposal. The News Tribune reported that Fawn Sharp, president of the Affi liated Tribes of Northwest Indians, says “there is a very high likelihood” that tribal leaders will end up sending their own initiative to voters next year. The Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy is working on the state- wide initiative. Aiko Schaefer, who co-chairs the steering committee for the Alliance, acknowledges that the group hasn’t done a good job of engaging the tribes, but says the Alliance want to change that by working together to unify the initiatives. Sept. 17, 2017 DRUMHELLER, John Thomas, 64, of Cannon Beach, died in Cannon Beach. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary & Crematory of Astoria/Seaside is in charge of the arrangements. APPLIANCE YE President Travis Joseph. Lawson Fite, of the Port- land-based council, said the monument’s expansion caused these counties to lose revenue “as future timber sales have been canceled.” “These funds are used to support important local ser- vices,” Fite said. Willis said that given sci- entifi c studies into the monu- ment’s expansion and numer- ous public hearings, “it would be sad if this quickie, error- fi lled report was used to dimin- ish the monument’s boundar- ies and protections.” DEATH Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. IN access to public lands, not less.” But counties that rely on logging revenues according to an old pact have objected to the monument’s expansion by President Barack Obama, and a group applauded the reported recommendation. “Congress already set aside these lands 80 years ago for the specifi c purpose of sustainable timber production in the O&C Act, and the pres- ident — regardless of party — doesn’t have the authority to rewrite the law,” said Amer- ican Forest Resource Council Associated Press Burns 33/53 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Tonight's Sky: New Moon (10:30 p.m.). One month ago, total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017. Hi 88 67 79 86 83 74 94 50 88 82 86 91 78 89 91 87 89 75 90 79 87 64 73 60 83 Baker 39/57 Ontario 45/64 Klamath Falls 45/52 Bureau of Land Management A view of Mt. Shasta from the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument near Ashland. Washington state tribes consider own carbon emissions plan La Grande 43/56 Roseburg 53/60 Brookings 52/58 Oct 12 John Day 49/57 Bend 42/55 Medford 51/60 UNDER THE SKY High 8.5 ft. 8.5 ft. Prineville 43/57 Lebanon 52/60 Eugene 49/57 Full Pendleton 48/59 The Dalles 51/61 Portland 52/59 Sunset tonight ........................... 7:19 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday .................... 7:00 a.m. Coos Bay Moonrise today ........................... 6:13 a.m. 54/59 Moonset today ........................... 7:24 p.m. City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Honolulu Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Philadelphia St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC 65 48 Partly sunny Tillamook 52/60 SUN AND MOON Time 1:48 a.m. 2:22 p.m. 64 46 Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 48/61 Precipitation Monday ............................................ 0.48" Month to date ................................... 0.81" Normal month to date ....................... 1.11" Year to date .................................... 50.87" Normal year to date ........................ 39.21" Sep 19 SATURDAY REGIONAL WEATHER Astoria through Monday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 60°/50° Normal high/low ........................... 68°/49° Record high ............................ 82° in 1991 Record low ............................. 38° in 1988 New FRIDAY 61 47 48 Occasional rain THURSDAY SALEM — Interior Secre- tary Ryan Zinke’s recommen- dation to President Donald Trump recommending down- sizing the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument has sev- eral errors, one of the people who was behind the creation of the monument said Monday. A memo from Zinke to the president justifying his rec- ommendation that the bound- aries of the monument, which lies mostly in Oregon and crosses over into California, be “revised” says motor vehi- cles aren’t allowed in it. “There are hundreds of roads inside this monument. I live on private land inside the monument. Do we walk or ride horses?” asked Dave Wil- lis, the chairman of the Soda Mountain Wilderness Council. He also wondered why Zinke’s memo referred to pro- tecting hunting and fi shing rights, saying those activities are already allowed in national monuments. “These factual errors make it look disinformed,” Willis said in a phone interview. “It’s sloppy work or an attempt to make something that’s unac- ceptable acceptable to people who don’t know better.” Bob Rees, founder of the Northwest Guides and Anglers Association, said: “Rolling back protections on Cascade-Siskiyou would be the worst attack on Ore- gon hunters and anglers I’ve seen in my 20 years as a fi sh- ing guide. American outdoor enthusiasts should have more & More! HOURS OPEN: MON-FRI 8-6 • SATURDAY 9-5 • SUNDAY 10-4 We Service What We Sell The Daily Astorian publishes paid obituaries. The obituary can include a small photo and, for veterans, a fl ag symbol at no charge. The deadline for all obituaries is 9 a.m. the business day prior. Obituaries may be edited for spelling, proper punctuation and style. 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