Legal Opinion
Garrison v. Deschutes County
Oregon Supreme Court
Decided June 21, 2002No. CC 96-CV-0397-ST; CA A101360; SC S46886PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*266GILLETTE, J.
This personal injury case requires us to examine the scope of the immunity from liability that the Oregon Tort Claims Act (OTCA) grants to certain kinds of discretionary decisions of a public body. The case arose when plaintiff Gary Garrison1 was injured when he fell from a raised concrete slab onto a lower slab at a Deschutes County (county) refuse transfer station. Plaintiffs brought the present action against the county, alleging three specifications of negligence. The county moved for summary judgment, asserting that, by virtue of ORS 30.265(3)(c),2 it was immune from…
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- Lowrimore v. DimmittOregon Supreme Court · 1990
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