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It’s the largest-ever legal award against the state of Oregon. A jury determined last week that the state had breached its contract with 13 rural counties by failing to maximize logging revenues on state land.
An appeals court ruled the state won't have to pay $1.2 billion in total damages in a forest management lawsuit.
A Linn County jury found in 2019 that Oregon breached its contract with 13 rural counties and 151 local taxing districts by failing to maximize timber harvests on state forests over the last two decades.
At the heart of the dispute is an 80-year-old Forest Acquisition Act, which governed the transfer of county lands that now make up Oregon's state forests.
A jury found, in 2019 Oregon breached a contract with 13 counties and 151 districts by failing to maximize timber harvests on state forests in the last two decades