Britton v. Board of Podiatry Examiners

Petitioner, the prevailing party in Britton v. Bd. of Podiatry Examiners, 53 Or App 544, 632 P2d 1273, rev den (1981), seeks an award of an attorney fee under the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). We decline to award a fee.

The original case was a judicial review of an order of the Board pf Podiatry Examiners (Board) revoking petitioner’s license to practice podiatry and refusing to renew it for subsequent years. We summarized the underlying facts leading to the Board’s actions this way:

“Petitioner is a specialist in ambulatory foot surgery, and a large part of his practice consists of…