Jordan v. City Council of City of Lake Oswego

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment action instituted by plaintiff to determine whether the City Council of Lake Oswego (Council) lawfully dismissed plaintiff as city attorney. The trial court concluded that the action of Council in removing the plaintiff as city attorney for Lake Oswego was a valid act and dismissed the plaintiff’s complaint. We affirm the trial court for a different reason.

Plaintiff made ten assignments of error. 1 Because of our disposition of this case, we do not consider each assignment; it is only necessary to determine whether the council proceeding was a…