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Social Justice Defense Council
A civic defense fund in formation
Defense should not depend on who can afford the system.
SJ-DC is being built to help people protect their homes, rights, and dignity when the cost and complexity of the legal system put justice out of reach.
Facts in the open.
Needs clearly defined.
Support with a purpose.
Our mission
Make meaningful defense possible.
Justice is supposed to turn on facts and law—not whether a person can survive the price of asserting their rights.
Social Justice Defense Council is being developed as a community-supported fund for people facing serious legal harm without the resources to meet it. Our aim is to connect carefully documented needs with practical support for legal defense, professional assistance, and a fair opportunity to be heard.
The SJ-DC model
Evidence first. Action second. Accountability throughout.
Fund the defense
Direct community support toward approved legal, investigative, expert, and case-support needs, with a clear budget and a specific purpose.
Report the result
Publish meaningful updates so supporters can see what their help made possible and what the experience can teach others.
Our goals
Build capacity now—and a durable common defense fund for the future.
Initial $50,000 campaign
This organizational-capacity campaign will help SJ-DC retain attorneys; recruit professional staff, investigators, researchers, and qualified experts; establish permanent or transitional office space; and build secure document, research, and communications infrastructure.
Funds may also support filing, service, transcript, records, technology, and other documented project expenses. The matters in our public project archive are SJ-DC’s first documented project, not a personal emergency appeal.
Campaign funds will not be used for the founder’s personal housing, relocation, food, or ordinary living expenses.
A self-renewing common defense fund
SJ-DC is being designed as a long-term civic resource. Founder James E. Jacobson Jr. intends to contribute a portion of any recoveries he receives as seed capital for the common fund.
Future participants who obtain a recovery may be invited, under clear written terms, to return an agreed portion to the fund so it can assist others. The fund may also compensate qualified experts and professionals for work on approved matters.
We are seeking fellow contributors
SJ-DC welcomes financial supporters and people who can help build the organization: attorneys, investigators, researchers, expert witnesses, technical specialists, advocates, nonprofit-development professionals, and community members.
If you can contribute professional time, expertise, introductions, facilities, equipment, or other practical support, please contact info@sj-dc.com.
Nonprofit development
SJ-DC has submitted an application for recognition of federal tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The application remains pending.
Contributors therefore do not presently have advance assurance that their contributions will be tax-deductible.
Document the need
Our legal projects
These matters form a connected record of housing instability, civil-rights litigation, emergency appellate work, and the practical cost of trying to secure a fair hearing.
26LT08153
Residential eviction defense
The central housing case involving party substitution, rent tender and accounting, habitability, retaliation, disability accommodation, and the right to obtain meaningful discovery.
A191475
Emergency appellate review and stay
The appellate track arising from 26LT08153, including emergency relief directed to the immediate risk of restitution and displacement.
S073115
Trial-court process review
A separate emergency proceeding addressing substitution, discovery, and stay rulings in the current eviction matter.
A188298
Appeal from civil-action dismissal
An appeal challenging dismissal of a related Multnomah County civil-rights action and the handling of the record, notice, accommodation, and post-judgment proceedings.
24LT05538
First related eviction action
Part of the documented sequence of housing proceedings used to evaluate notice, habitability, retaliation, and the cumulative burden of repeated eviction litigation.
25LT16272
Second related eviction action
A later eviction matter that was voluntarily dismissed, leaving disputed defenses and counterclaims relevant to the broader retaliation history.
26CV06478
Housing and civil damages claims
A related damages action concerning the course of housing conduct, asserted civil-rights violations, and resulting losses.
3:23-cv-01551-HZ
Fair-housing and disability claims
The original federal track addressing fair-housing, disability, retaliation, and related constitutional issues.
3:25-cv-01006-SB
Federal claims affected by state dismissal
A related federal matter whose disposition became intertwined with the challenged state-court dismissal and appellate record.
3:25-cv-01303-AR
Related federal litigation
A further federal proceeding within the same housing and civil-rights dispute cluster.
3:26-cv-01559-IM
Fair-housing and disability discrimination action
A federal action alleging fair-housing violations, disability discrimination, retaliation, and related misconduct arising from the housing dispute. On July 28, 2026, the court denied emergency injunctive relief and dismissed the complaint without prejudice, permitting the claims to be revised and refiled where legally appropriate.
23SC13915
Small-claims proceeding
An earlier state proceeding preserved as part of the complete chronology and related-proceedings record.
Clearlake / Gresham Park
Trademark, licensing, and creditor claims
Work involving Clearlake Design, the Gresham Park name, business records, licensing demands, and creditor issues connected to the property dispute.
HUD / BOLI / OSB
Fair-housing and accountability complaints
Administrative fair-housing work and professional-conduct review arising from the same documented course of events.
Estate of Marjorie A. Jacobson
Estate and trustee litigation
A separate probate project concerning estate administration, inventory, trustee issues, accounting, and proposed resolution.
This is a public project summary, not a complete statement of the allegations, defenses, evidence, or procedural posture in any matter. Case descriptions will be updated as the record develops.
Public document archive
Read the actual record.
This section provides selected legal documents so supporters can evaluate the facts, filings, rulings, and chronology directly.
Documents are reviewed and redacted before publication to protect medical information, home addresses, account details, signatures, and other confidential or privileged material.
01PDF available
Federal complaint
Complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, Case No. 3:26-cv-01559-IM.
Open complaint PDF
02Archive prepared
Declarations and exhibits
Sworn factual records and selected supporting exhibits that document the need for relief.
Selected PDFs will be posted here
03Archive prepared
Orders and judgments
Court rulings, judgments, notices, and other documents showing the procedural history and current posture.
Selected PDFs will be posted here
04Archive prepared
Chronologies and public records
Case timelines, relationship maps, public business records, and carefully selected correspondence.
Selected PDFs will be posted hereRelevant information
Have relevant firsthand information?
If you have prior firsthand experience involving attorneys at Warren Allen PC or Brisbee & Stockton that may relate to SJ-DC’s documented legal projects, we would like to hear from you.
Contact info@sj-dc.com. Please do not send privileged, sealed, medical, financial, or confidential information through ordinary email.
About SJ-DC
Built from lived experience with the justice gap.
SJ-DC began with a simple observation: people can have documents, credible claims, and rights on paper—and still be overwhelmed by procedure, cost, and institutional imbalance.
The long-term vision is a disciplined civic fund that helps people meet those moments with a documented case, a workable plan, and a community willing to stand behind them.
About the Founder
Jim Jacobson
Jim Jacobson is the founder of the Social Justice Defense Council. Since beginning this work in 2023, Jim has personally funded the organization and has not received compensation for any aspect of SJ-DC's development or activities.
Jim has a professional background spanning law and engineering. He is an inventor named on eight United States patents and hundreds of international patents. During his corporate career, he worked in the legal departments of Motorola, Microsoft, and Intel. His corporate career ended when the events of September 11, 2001, forced him into early retirement.
Jim is a skilled litigator with more than 20 years of courtroom experience. He has been admitted to practice in multiple jurisdictions, including before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Jim founded SJ-DC after experiencing firsthand the extraordinary time, expense, and expertise required for an individual to defend against institutional wrongdoing. That experience became the foundation for SJ-DC's mission: building a common fund and a network of qualified experts so that others do not have to face complex legal battles alone.
SJ-DC anticipates that one or more of its current or future legal efforts may present issues suitable for consideration by the Supreme Court of the United States. Whether any matter reaches the Supreme Court will depend upon the development of the record, the applicable appellate process, and the Court's discretionary review.
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