Lawyer Makes Federal Case Out of Transit Ban for Arguing About Rider’s Constitutional Rights

In a one-year period between Oct. 1, 2011 and Sept. 30, a Portland, Ore., transit agency issued only 23 bans to riders because they allegedly made excessive noise. One was to Jennie Bricker, who is not only an attorney but a partner of Stoel Rives, one of the city's biggest and best-known corporate law firms. With the backing of the American Civil Liberties Union, she has made a federal case out...