Wallace v. State ex rel. Public Employees Retirement Board & Public Employees Retirement System

Plaintiff appeals a judgment that dismissed his claims against defendant, raising three assignments of error.1 We write to address only one of his assignments, viz., that the trial court erred in dismissing six of plaintiffs seven claims for relief for lack of jurisdiction. The court concluded that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction over those claims because plaintiff had begun but not completed a contested case proceeding under the Oregon Administrative Procedures Act (APA), ORS 183.310 to 183.690, that challenged the legality of the state agency actions that formed the basis of…