Project Veritas, et al. v. Michael Schmidt, et al.

Portland, Oregon constitutional law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who challenged Oregon's privacy law.



Project Veritas and Project Veritas Action Fund (collectively, "Project Veritas”) argue that an Oregon

statute prohibiting unannounced recordings of oral conversations violates the First Amendment. Project Veritas

brings as-applied and facial challenges. It contends that the statute is a content-based restriction on expression that is

subject to strict scrutiny and that the statute is facially invalid as overbroad. Because Oregon's statute does not

discriminate on the basis of viewpoint or restrict discussion of an entire topic, we conclude it is content neutral, and that it survives intermediate scrutiny. Because Project Veritas fails to show that any unconstitutional applications of the statute substantially outweigh its constitutional applications, Project

Affirmed