Legal Opinion
Lincoln Loan Co. v. City of Portland
Oregon Supreme Court
Decided May 25, 2006No. CC 0307-07891; CA A124756; SC S51666PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBalmer, J.
In this declaratory judgment action, plaintiff challenges the constitutionality of the procedure by which the voters adopted Article VII (Amended) of the Oregon Constitution in 1910. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that plaintiff may not challenge that procedure in this case. Accordingly, we affirm the circuit court’s judgment in favor of defendant.
The issue arises in prosaic circumstances. In 1995, plaintiff Lincoln Loan obtained a money judgment against defendant City of Portland in Multnomah County Circuit Court (the “1995 judgment”). Defendant appealed, and the Court of Appeals…
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