Mats järlström is by all accounts an engineer.
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The decision was sought by mats järlström a swedish electronics engineer living in oregon who was fined in 2016 for calling himself an engineer in correspondence with state officials and doing math.
Does the first amendment apply to talking about math.
By matt agorist the free thought project.
The state rules prohibited individuals from representing themselves as engineers unless they had registered as professional engineers in oregon.
Järlström is an electrical engineer by.
Instead of listening however the state engineering board fined him for criticizing them.
That s the gist of a new lawsuit filed by mats järlström who was fined 500 by an oregon agency after he suggested.
Mats järlström didn t set out to argue a freedom of speech case in front of a federal judge but it looks like that s where he s headed.
Many of you have asked me to comment on the case of mats järlström an electrical engineer living in beaverton oregon who was recently fined 500 by the state licensing board for calling himself an engineer he actually is an engineer just not a civil engineer and for providing a critique of the timing of yellow lights in an antiquated signalized intersection.
Added on march 5 2020 whitney russell first amendment lawsuit institute for justice institute of transportation engineers longer yellow lights mats järlström oregon engineer new traffic.
He graduated from engineering school in sweden served as an airplane camera mechanic in the swedish air force and worked in research and.
This is the case a self described engineer made by mats järlström in portland oregon.
Oregon s board of examiners for engineering and land surveying unconstitutionally applied state law governing engineering practice to mats järlström when he exercised his free speech about traffic lights and described himself as an engineer since he was doing so in a noncommercial setting and not soliciting professional business the.
The offense was pitching a new mathematical formula for intersection traffic cameras.