Kerley v. Real Estate Agency

This is a case of judicial review of a final order of the Real Estate Commissioner (the commissioner). The order revoked the real estate salesperson’s and real estate broker’s licenses of respondent Kerley, based on Kerley’s embezzlement of funds belonging to two partnerships of which Kerley was a member. Kerley had committed the acts of embezzlement before he received his real estate licenses. On Kerley’s petition for judicial review, the Court of Appeals reversed the commissioner’s order. Relying on this court’s decision in Dearborn v. Real Estate Agency, 334 Or 493, 53 P3d 436 (2002)…