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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
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Associated Press
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emissions in Washington state after another
group working on a statewide carbon-tax ini-
tiative for the November 2018 ballot failed to
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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.”
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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
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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
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