Ponderosa Inn, Inc. v. Employment Division

Petitioner, the prevailing party in The Ponderosa Inn, Inc. v. Emp. Div., 63 Or App 183, 663 P2d 1291 (1983), seeks an award of an attorney fee pursuant to the Oregon Administrative Procedures Act (APA). We award a fee of $3,000.

On the merits of the case, petitioner achieved a reversal in part of an order that imposed an unemployment compensation tax deficiency assessment in connection with petitioner’s employment of six country music ensembles, a person who painted the stripes on petitioner’s parking lot, two painters, two carpet layers, a carpenter and a landscaper. We held that, as a…