Brown v. Adult and Family Services

*8LENT, J.

We review the decisions of the Court of Appeals in four cases, consolidated for review before this court, to consider the common question concerning the Court of Appeals’ exercise of its discretion to award attorney fees under ORS 183.495, which provides:

“Upon judicial review of a final order of an agency when the reviewing court reverses or remands the order it may, in its discretion, award costs, including reasonable attorney’s fees, to the petitioner to be paid from funds appropriated to the agency.”

In each of these cases, petitioner initially sought judicial review of an action or…