Court Opinion

ID: 9552564
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 19:13:05.630259+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:28:11.793167
License: Public Domain

LENT, J.,
dissenting in part; concurring in part.
I dissent from the majority opinion on the issue of the appealability of the order. As the majority concedes, the question of our jurisdiction is not free from doubt. We did not have the advantage of true adversarial briefing in this case because the respondent1 was apparently as anxious as the appellant for a ruling on the merits. I do not find this to be either a final order under ORS 305.445 or "[a]n appeal * * * from the circuit court in any special statutory proceeding * * *” (emphasis added) under ORS 19.010(4). The majority appears to render an advisory opinion upon jurisdiction bestowed by stipulation of the parties. This we have no power to do.
I concur in the reasoning of the majority upon the merits.

 The parties cannot even be labelled as plaintiff and defendant or petitioner and respondent because there is no cause pending as we usually understand that concept.