Garcia v. Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles

In 2003, the legislature enacted House Bill (HB) 2646, which effected a comprehensive revision of the laws governing judgments. See Or Laws 2003, ch 576 (containing the complete text of HB 2646). The legislature intended to eliminate perceived problems with existing law, including the lack of clarity as to what was an appealable judgment and judgments that were labeled as such but did not have the effect of judgments.1 In short, HB 2646 reflected a sea change in the law governing judgments.

The legislature appears to have accomplished that sea change by enacting an intricate statutory scheme…