Armstrong v. Cupp

Petitioners, prisoners at the Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) and the Oregon State Correctional Institution (OSCI), appeal, pursuant to ORS 34.710, from an order dismissing consolidated amended petitions for writs of habeas corpus.1 The trial court granted defendants’ amended motions to dismiss, finding that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction over petitioners’ challenges to conditions of confinement because they have alternative legal remedies, ORCP 21A(1), and because there is another action pending in federal court between the same parties. ORCP 21A(3). We affirm.

The petitions were filed…