Johnson v. Gibson

This case is before the court on two certified questions from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. See ORS 28.200 - 28.255 (providing for certification of certain questions of Oregon law from specified federal courts and appellate courts of other states to Oregon Supreme Court). As framed by the Ninth Circuit, the questions are (1) whether individual employees responsible for repairing, maintaining, and operating improvements on City-owned recreational land made available to the public for recreational purposes are “owner [s]” of the land, as that term is defined in the…