Lane County Commissioner David Loveall is taking the county, its administrator and three of his fellow commissioners to court.
Loveall filed a federal lawsuit Thursday, March 19, that seeks to reverse the board’s March 3 vote to censure him. The lawsuit alleges the county violated his constitutional rights to freedom of speech and religious expression, all without due process or following the state’s open meetings laws.
Before the censure vote, Loveall had faced complaints filed with the county’s human resources department. Then, an outside investigation found he had retaliated against staffers, including County Administrator Steve Mokrohisky. For instance, the investigation found that Loveall went into Mokrohisky’s office and told him to stop the complaints and “tell the employees to f— off” and threatened Mokrohisky’s job…