Garcia v. Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles

*606LINDER, J.

This appeal presents what promises to be the first of many questions that will arise for courts in the wake of the enactment of House Bill (HB) 2646 (2003), which comprehensively revised the statutes governing judgments.1 Under HB 2646, many judgments are now designated “limited,” “general,” or “supplemental,” and trial judges and local court administrators are required to include those designations in judgment labels and in register notations.2 For the most part, the legislature appears not to have anticipated that the new statutory scheme would be implemented imperfectly—for…