Young v. State of Oregon

Plaintiffs, “white-collar” state employees employed between 1995 and 1997, seek post-judgment interest on supplemental judgments entered by the trial court in response to direction from this court in Young v. State of Oregon, 340 Or 401, 133 P3d 915 (2006) (Young III), and ask that that interest accrue from the date that the original judgment was entered. In a written opinion, the Court of Appeals held that sovereign immunity absolved the state from any obligation to pay interest. Young v. State of Oregon, 221 Or App 146, 188 P3d 476 (2008) (Young IV). For the reasons that follow, we reverse.

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