Cases edit
Famous Oregon cases edit
The following are cases decided in Oregon's courthouses that are significant in the state's legal history:
- Holmes v. Ford, (1853) (slavery)
- McLaughlin v. Hoover, 1 Or. 31 (1853) (assumpsit, statute of limitations, repugnancy)
- Lowe v. City of Eugene, 254 Or. 518, 463 P.2d 360 (1969) (1st Amendment, Skinner Butte)
- Oregon v. Guzek, 336 Or. 424, 86 P.3d 1106 (2004) (death penalty)
- MacPherson v. Department of Administrative Services, 340 Or. 117, 130 P.3d 308 (2006) (land use, measure 37)
- Williams v. Philip Morris, Inc., 340 Or. 35, 127 P.3d 1165 (2006) (punitive damages, smoking)
U.S. Supreme Court cases edit
The following United States Supreme Court decisions involved the state of Oregon or Oregonians:
- Silver v. Ladd, 74 U.S. 219 (1868) (Donation Land Act)
- Pennoyer v. Neff, 95 U.S. 714 (1877) (US Supreme Court, personal jurisdiction)
- Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990) (employment law, constitutional law)
- Dolan v. City of Tigard, 512 U.S. 374 (1994) (zoning, property rights)
- Muller v. Oregon, 494 U.S. 872 (1990 208 U.S. 412 (1908) (employment law, equal rights)
- Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925) (14th Amendment)
- Myers v. United States, 272 U.S. 52 (1926) (Presidential powers)
- Gonzales v. Oregon, 546 U.S. 243 (2006) (Controlled Substances Act, assisted suicide)
- Oregon v. Mitchell, 400 U.S. 112 (1970) (voting age)
- DeJonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S. 353 (1937) (freedom of assembly)
- Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon, 548 U.S. ___ (2006) (evidence, Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations)
- Clackamas Gastroenterology Associates, P. C. v. Wells, 538 U.S. 440 (2003)
- Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Oregon, 223 U.S. 118 (1912) (intiative process)
- Kiernan v. Portland, 223 U.S. 151 (1912)
- United States v. Oregon State Medical Soc., 343 U.S. 326 (1952)
- Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality of Oregon 511 US 93 (1994)
Enacted laws edit
Oregon's codified statutes are in the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS). They are re-printed every two years with updates from new or revised laws. The ORS are subordinate to the state's constituion.
In 1857, the Oregon Constitutional Convention created Oregon's first constitution. The current Oregon Constitution can be ammended by the state legislature and by citizen initiative. Additionally, changes in federal law can nullify portions of the Oregon Constitution, as federal law trumps state law due to the Supremecy Clause of the United States Constitution.
Approved Ballot Measures: List of Oregon ballot measures
- Oregon Ballot Measure 3 (1992), term limits.
- Oregon Ballot Measure 16 (1994), physician assisted suicide.
- Oregon Ballot Measure 58 (1998), adoption records.
- Oregon Ballot Measure 37 (2004), land use.
Failed Ballot Measures:
- Oregon Ballot Measure 19 (1994), obscenity and child pornography.
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Legal education edit
There are three law schools in the state of Oregon. One public, the University of Oregon School of Law, and two private schools with Willamette University College of Law and Lewis & Clark Law School. Willamette's law school was founded in 1883 and has 450 students. Lewis & Clark's was founded in 1915 and has an enrollment of 700 law students. Located in Eugene, the state law school at the University of Oregon has an enrollment of 538 and started in 1884. The state law school was originally in Portland, but moved to the University's main campus in 1915.[1] However, many professors did not want to relocate and thus the Northwestern School of Law was formed in Portland, eventually becoming the Lewis & Clark Law School.[2] Lewis & Clark is located in Portland, while Willamette is in Salem.
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