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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast WEDNESDAY TODAY Sunshine Sunshine and beautiful 85° 53° 80° 51° THURSDAY FRIDAY Sunny and beautiful Sunny and comfortable PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 80° 51° 84° 52° 85° 59° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 86° 51° 91° 55° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 92° 80° 98° (1967) 58° 53° 35° (1893) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 0.00" 1.05" 0.89" 10.20" 6.45" 7.40" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 95° 81° 102° (1961) 57° 54° 39° (2016) 0.00" 0.28" 0.43" 6.59" 4.64" 5.54" SUN AND MOON June 23 June 30 Full 5:06 a.m. 8:48 p.m. 2:47 a.m. 4:44 p.m. Last July 8 July 16 John Day 85/49 Ontario 97/62 Bend 83/47 Burns 90/46 Caldwell 95/61 Hi 62 84 83 70 90 82 79 84 91 85 90 83 79 90 62 67 97 92 85 75 87 77 84 81 74 89 89 Astoria Baker City Bend Brookings Burns Enterprise Eugene Heppner Hermiston John Day Klamath Falls La Grande Meacham Medford Newport North Bend Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Redmond Salem Spokane Ukiah Vancouver Walla Walla Yakima Lo 50 46 47 57 46 45 47 49 55 49 51 50 45 61 48 52 62 52 53 50 44 48 51 41 49 58 52 W pc s s s s s pc s s s s s s s pc pc s s s pc s c s s pc s s NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Wed. Hi 64 76 79 76 83 74 77 80 86 79 88 76 73 90 61 65 87 86 80 75 83 77 76 74 74 84 84 Lo 49 41 46 58 38 41 48 46 51 48 48 44 41 55 47 52 54 48 51 52 41 50 49 39 50 54 50 W c s s s s s s s s s s s s s pc s s s s pc s s s s pc s s WORLD CITIES Today Hi 95 88 81 86 78 71 94 84 89 67 80 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 68 82 62 62 50 53 71 65 69 49 68 W s t s pc pc pc t s pc c pc Wed. Hi 92 90 77 89 79 63 96 84 87 64 75 Lo 70 84 61 64 53 48 69 66 67 54 70 W t t s pc pc pc t pc s pc r WINDS Medford 90/61 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today New First Albany 79/46 Eugene 79/47 TEMPERATURE 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 91° 55° Spokane Wenatchee 84/51 83/54 Tacoma Moses 74/45 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 88/52 80/50 65/49 73/44 89/52 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 71/47 89/58 Lewiston 93/52 Astoria 89/57 62/50 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 75/50 Pendleton 82/45 The Dalles 91/55 85/53 83/54 La Grande Salem 83/50 77/48 Corvallis 80/48 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 89° 55° Seattle 70/51 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 86° 53° Today SATURDAY Partly sunny and pleasant Tuesday, June 20, 2017 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 90/51 REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern Washington: Sunny today. Patchy clouds tonight. Plenty of sunshine tomor- row. Cascades: Nice today. Not as warm across the north with clouds and sun; sunny in central parts. Northern California: Very hot in central parts today; clouds, then sun at the coast. Wednesday WSW 6-12 W 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Clouds and sun in central parts today; a shower across the north. Sunshine in the south. Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunny today; very hot in the south and upper Treasure Valley. Western Washington: Mainly cloudy today with a stray shower. Today WSW 10-20 W 8-16 2 5 7 7 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and Dec. 25, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. 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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 119° in Needles, Calif. Low 32° in West Yellowstone, Mont. NATIONAL CITIES Today Albuquerque Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Fargo Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Hi 99 76 81 86 92 81 96 83 84 83 77 81 93 94 78 102 68 75 86 94 83 85 90 116 88 87 Lo 70 68 69 63 64 69 62 65 71 59 59 61 72 63 55 77 52 55 73 75 63 74 69 89 67 66 W pc t pc s s sh s pc t pc pc pc s s pc pc sh pc pc pc pc r s s s pc Wed. 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Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com Justices say law on offensive trademarks is unconstitutional WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday struck down part of a law that bans offensive trademarks, ruling in favor of an Asian-American rock band from Portland called the Slants and giving a major boost to the Washington Redskins in their separate legal fight over the team name. The justices were unan- imous in saying that the 71-year-old trademark law barring disparaging terms infringes free speech rights guaranteed in the Constitu- tion’s First Amendment. “It offends a bedrock First Amendment principle: Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend,” Justice Samuel Alito said in his opinion for the court. Slants founder Simon Tam tried to trademark the band name in 2011, but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied the request on the ground that it disparages Asians. A federal appeals court in Washington later said the law barring offensive trademarks is unconstitutional and the Supreme Court agreed. The Redskins made similar arguments after the trademark office ruled in 2014 that the name offends American Indians and canceled the team’s trademark. That case, before a federal appeals court in Richmond, had been on hold while the Supreme Court considered the Slants case. Tam insisted he was not trying to be offensive, but “A law that can be directed against speech found offensive to some portion of the public can be turned against minority and dissenting views to the detriment of all.” — Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court justice AP Photo/Nick Wass, File In this 2016 file photo, a Washington Redskins helmet is seen on the sidelines during the first half of an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys in Landover, Md. The Supreme Court on Monday struck down part of a law that bans offensive trademarks in a ruling that is expected to help the Washington Redskins in their legal fight over the team name. wanted to transform a derisive term into a statement of pride. The Redskins also contend their name honors American Indians, but the team has faced decades of legal challenges from Indian groups that say the name is racist. Tam said the band was “beyond humbled and thrilled” with the ruling. “This journey has always been much bigger than our band: it’s been about the rights of all marginalized communi- ties to determine what’s best for ourselves,” he said. Despite intense public pressure to change the Redskins name, team owner Dan Snyder has refused, saying in the past that it “represents honor, respect and pride” for Native Amer- icans. Snyder issued a quick statement after Monday’s decision: “I am THRILLED. Hail to the Redskins.” Redskins attorney Lisa Blatt said the court’s deci- sion effectively resolves the Redskins’ longstanding dispute with the government. “The Supreme Court vindicated the team’s position that the First Amendment blocks the government from denying or cancelling a trade- mark registration based on the government’s opinion,” Blatt said. Trademark office spokesman Paul Fucito said officials are reviewing the court’s ruling and planned to issue further guidance on how they will review trademark applications. Indian groups opposing the Redskins said the ruling does not change the fact that the name “is a dictionary-defined racial slur.” “If the NFL wants to live up to its statements about placing importance on equality, then it shouldn’t hide behind these rulings, but should act to end this hateful and degrading slur,” said a joint statement from the National Congress of American Indians and the group Change the Mascot. The ruling means offen- sive trademarks can no longer be denied, even for names that intend to disparage individ- uals or groups of people, said Megan Carpenter, dean at the University of New Hampshire School of Law and an expert on trademark law. While the justices all agreed on the outcome, they split in their rationale. Alito rejected arguments that the government has an interest in preventing speech that is offensive to certain groups. “Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech juris- prudence is that we protect the freedom to express the thought we hate,” Alito said in a part of his opinion joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer. Writing separately, Justice Anthony Kennedy stressed that the ban on disparaging trademarks was a clear form of viewpoint discrimination forbidden under the First Amendment. “A law that can be directed against speech found offen- sive to some portion of the public can be turned against minority and dissenting views to the detriment of all,” Kennedy said in an opinion joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonya Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Justice Neil Gorsuch took no part in the case, which was argued before he joined the court. Government officials said the law did not infringe on free speech rights because the band was still free to use the name even without trademark protection. The same is true for the Redskins, but the team did not want to lose the legal protections that go along with a registered trademark. The protections include blocking the sale of counterfeit merchandise and working to pursue a brand development strategy. Critics of the law said the trademark office has been wildly inconsistent over the years in deciding what terms are too offensive to warrant trademark protection. The government has in the past rejected trademarks for the terms “Heeb” and “Injun,” but allowed those for companies such as Baked By A Negro bakery products, Midget Man condoms, and Dago Swagg clothing. Museum-housed lamprey released into Umatilla BEND (AP) — Two Pacific lampreys have been released back into the Umatilla River after spending months at the High Desert Museum in Central Oregon. The Bulletin reports the museum housed the fish in partnership with the Confed- erated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, which is trying to prevent the lamprey from becoming an endan- gered species. Associate curator Jessica Stewart says the museum plans to regularly house and release lampreys, making them a consistent attraction. She says their presence has helped educate the public about fish that are a critical part of the ecosystem. Pacific lampreys were historically abundant in the Upper Deschutes watershed, but their population has declined because of dams. Through the work of the tribes, more have made it upstream this year. The tribes collect lampreys at Willamette Falls and Bonne- ville Dam, and drive them to rivers and streams in Eastern Oregon. Join us today! Corrections The June 17 article “Diplomas offer new beginning for EOCI inmates” misidentified New Directions Education Project as New Beginnings partway through the article. The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. Apply Online: Text for more info:
