Berry v. Metro Electrical Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee

The issue in this case is whether we have jurisdiction to review a decision by the Metro Electrical Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee (the Committee), which terminated an apprenticeship agreement with Cardis Berry, a probationary apprentice electrician. Specifically, the question is whether the Committee’s termination of the apprentice agreement was a final order in a contested case subject to the contested case procedures of the Oregon Administrative Procedures Act (APA). If so, we have jurisdiction and the Committee concedes that the notice and procedural requirements of the APA…