Judge issues new denials in Oregon man’s $21 billion mask suit By Nick Morgan, Mail Tribune Published: February 5, 2021, 8:33am Share: MEDFORD, Ore. — Disputing claims of her alleged political bias point-by-point, a federal judge refused to step aside in an Eagle Point, Ore., man’s $21 billion lawsuit seeking to halt the governor’s emergency orders during the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken on Wednesday denied for a second time Southern Oregon rancher Francis Steffan Hayes’ request for a preliminary injunction putting a stop to state emergency orders. Hays claims in a lawsuit that that his constitutional rights were violated because he couldn’t buy feed for his livestock last summer without wearing a mask.