Pendleton School District 16R v. State

*31GILLETTE, J.

This case involves a request that this court exercise its discretionary authority to award attorney fees to the prevailing parties in a case involving school funding. Petitioners were designated as the prevailing parties in that case, Pendleton School Dist. v. State of Oregon, 345 Or 596, 200 P3d 133 (2009). Petitioners (several Oregon public school districts and certain minors who would be attending public schools in Oregon) there asserted that the legislature had failed to perform a constitutional duty to adequately fund the state public school system. Petitioners sought…