
He read deeply and had broad knowledge about everything.” He was also admired for his quick wit and his green thumb. Joan wrote: “The thing I most admired always about Dick was his terrific intellect. In 1971, he married Joan Wong, a community activist and communications professional, who was also a member of the Reed College Women's Committee. Anderson ’49 married and had two sons and a daughter. “I believe that Reed is one the places that can help solve them by training good minds.” He resigned from the board in 1978 in order to accept an appointment to the Oregon Educational Coordinating Committee from Oregon governor Bob Straub. “There are some, but only a few, institutions which are attempting to alleviate the problems our society has today,” Dick said. He later became a solo practitioner, and provided legal aid to seniors through the Legal Aid of Oregon Senior Law Project, where he was listed among their “longest serving and most valued lawyers.” Dick served on Reed's alumni board of directors and as an alumni trustee. In 1958, he received an LLB from Northwestern College of Law, and practiced corporate law with Martin, Bischoff, Templeton, & Biggs and also with Lindsay, Hart, Neil & Weigler. Navy in the South Pacific and a court reporter for court martial trials in Shanghai.


Richard Lee Biggs ’50, March 23, 2011, in Portland. During World War II, Dick was a yeoman in the U.S. The Nevada criminal case ended in a mistrial.Ĭopyright 2023 The Associated Press. In 2014, Bundy’s father, rancher Cliven Bundy, rallied supporters to stop officers from impounding Bundy Ranch cattle over more than $1 million in unpaid fees and penalties for grazing livestock on government land. Since then, Bundy ignored court orders related to the lawsuit, filed trespassing complaints against people hired to deliver legal paperwork and called on scores of his followers to camp at his home for protection when he learned he might be arrested on a warrant for a misdemeanor charge of contempt of court. The hospital’s lawsuit was filed more than a year ago. Bundy was acquitted of criminal charges in the matter. In 2016, Bundy led a 41-day armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, to protest the arson convictions of two ranchers who set fires on federal land where they had been grazing their cattle. He was temporarily banned from the government building in 2020. The remainder of the total $52.5 million in damages was assessed to the People’s Rights Network, Freedom Man Press and the Bundy campaign for governor.īundy and his People’s Rights Network had earlier carried out protests at the Idaho Statehouse over coronavirus-related measures. The jury’s verdict requires Bundy to pay the plaintiffs $6.2 million in compensatory damages and $6.15 million in punitive damages and Rodriguez to pay $7 million in compensatory damages and $6.5 million in punitive damages, according to Holland & Hart, the law firm, representing St. Rodriguez wrote on his website that the baby was “kidnapped,” and suggested that the state and people involved in the case were engaged in “child trafficking” for profit. Police said at the time that medical personnel determined the child was malnourished and had lost weight.īundy responded by urging his followers to protest at the hospital and at the homes of child protection service workers, law enforcement officers and others involved in the child protection case.

Rachel Thomas, testified that the 10-month-old baby’s stomach was distended, his eyes were hollow and he was unable to sit up, reminding her of severely malnourished babies she had treated in Haiti, according to the Idaho Statesman newspaper.

Luke’s Regional Health accused Bundy and Diego Rodriguez of making defamatory statements against the hospital and its employees after Rodriguez’s infant grandson was removed from his family for several days and taken to St. (AP) – Far-right activist Ammon Bundy, who led the takeover of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, an associate and three of their groups must pay over $50 million in damages for accusing a hospital of child trafficking and harassing medical staff, a jury has decided.
