Nursery claimed state forced county to renege on deal
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that state and county governments prevented an Oregon nursery from receiving topsoil from a controversial water treatment facility project.
However, the ruling allows the Sester family, which owns a 1,500-acre nursery near Gresham, Ore., to revise its complaint against Multnomah County and the Oregon Department of Agriculture.
Last year, the Sester family filed a lawsuit alleging the county government and state agency had interfered with a deal under which the nursery was supposed to obtain topsoil from the construction of a new water treatment facility outside Portland…