Court Opinion

ID: 9542016
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:30:42.151754+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:05:56.323774
License: Public Domain

LINDE, J.,
concurring.
It is not clear to me how the Oregon Constitution forbids the legislature to provide that a litigant need not go to trial before a judge in whose impartiality he has no confidence, if the provision does not in effect deny the other party a fair trial. Nor is it clear to me why the constitutional obstacle, if any, is removed when the moving litigant must allege his "good faith” and the challenged judge can engage him in a contest *260of that "good faith.” However, since these questions have not been reopened by the legislature or by the Council on Court Procedures, nor by the parties, and need not be reconsidered in order to reach the result in the present case, I concur in that result.