GPL Treatment, Ltd. v. Louisiana-Pacific Corp.

*118VAN HOOMISSEN, J.

This case involves the so-called “merchant’s exception” to the statute of frauds in the Oregon Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). ORS 72.2010(2).1 Plaintiffs (GPL)2 sued defendant Louisiana-Pacific (L-P) seeking damages for breach of an alleged oral contract to buy 88 truckloads of cedar shakes. L-P denied the alleged contract and asserted the UCC statute of frauds, ORS 72.2010(1), as an affirmative defense. GPL relied on the merchant’s exception. ORS 72.2010(2). The trial court denied L-P’s motions in limine to exclude evidence of the “writing” that GPL sent to L-P and for a…