SCHOOL DIST. NO. 1, MULTNOMAH CTY. v. Nilsen

This is an appeal by the Commissioner of Labor from a decision of the circuit court which allowed a writ of prohibition against the Commissioner and the Attorney General of Oregon. The writ limited the scope of an administrative hearing before the Commissioner and restricted demands made in a subpoena issued for the hearing.

The factual basis of the case is relatively free of dispute. A. Ruth Spencer had been a teacher-employe of the petitioner (hereinafter referred to as District) for 23 years. In 1969 she applied for a promotion to a nonteaching position in an administrative or supervisory…