Mats Jдrlstrфm Lawsuit

District court for the district of oregon entered a judgment largely ruling for mats järlström in his first amendment lawsuit against oregon s engineering board.

Mats jдrlstrфm lawsuit.

Oregon wants the lawsuit thrown out but järlström and his attorneys from the institute for justice want the law itself declared. A federal judge has ruled that the oregon board of examiners for engineering and land surveying violated the first amendment when it tried to fine mats järlström an. Arlington va on december 28 2018 magistrate judge stacie f. Mats järlström s emotions were clearly visible friday morning.

In 2013 mats järlström s wife got a red light camera ticket at an intersection in oregon. Beaverton resident mats järlström standing between his lawyers outside u s. That s the gist of a new lawsuit filed by mats järlström who was fined 500 by an oregon agency after he suggested that the standard formula for timing yellow lights could be improved. Mats sued the board in 2017 asserting that oregon s engineering licensing law violated his first amendment rights by banning him.

But for mats järlström an oregon electrical engineer a red light ticket issued to his wife set off a multiyear quest to reform the whole methodology behind traffic signal timing. In 2017 mats järlström was fined 500 by the oregon state board of examiners for engineering and land surveying for using the word engineer to describe himself. Järlström an electrical engineer by training investigated the formula used to time yellow lights. Beckerman of the u s.

The board also forbade him.