Parker v. Fred Meyer, Inc.

Plaintiff appeals the trial court’s grant of defendant’s motion for summary judgment in this action for alleged violations of ORS 659.410 (workers’ compensation retaliation) and ORS 659.425 (disability discrimination). He argues that the court incorrectly treated a statement that an administrative law judge (ALJ) made while deciding his workers’ compensation claim as creating issue preclusion on the question of whether defendant terminated him in retaliation for having asserted a workers’ compensation claim. We agree and therefore reverse.

We state the facts most favorably to plaintiff. See…