Oregon Supreme Court

In oral arguments before the state Supreme Court, GOP senators will argue Measure 113 contained a loophole. The state — and advocacy groups — say the court must honor voter intent.

Five Republican lawmakers say they can't be barred from running for another term because they boycotted the Senate earlier this year.

Attorneys with the Oregon Department of Justice say a case that cuts at the heart of the state’s overwhelmed public defense system – and that’s currently before the Oregon Supreme Court – could be moot because the attorney at the center of the debate has left his job. But they’ve stopped short of asking the justices to toss out the case.

A group of public defenders from Marion County asked the Oregon Supreme Court whether trial court judges can force an attorney to take an indigent defendant’s case. The justices will have to balance the legal protections for a person charged with a crime against the ethical obligations of a public defender.

An attorney for convicted school shooter Kip Kinkel has petitioned the Oregon Supreme Court, saying Kinkel is legally entitled to a hearing to determine if he’s capable of rehabilitation. The filing comes almost 25 years after the Thurston School Shooting, for which Kinkel was sentenced to more than a century behind bars.

The U.S. Senate today confirmed the nomination of Adrienne C. Nelson, an associate justice on the Oregon Supreme Court, to serve as a federal district court judge.

The Oregon Supreme Court has denied a petition to overturn a lower court ruling blocking the state’s new gun laws from taking effect. Ballot Measure 114’s provisions remain blocked in their entirety pending a lower court hearing on the measure’s constitutionality.

When Kate Brown leaves office, she will have appointed every justice on the state’s highest court. She also announced other judicial appointments Wednesday.

The Oregon Supreme Court denied a state Department of Justice petition asking the court to intervene and throw out a lower court’s temporary restraining order blocking the law from taking effect.

The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the death sentence of an Oregon inmate, in a major ruling that found legislators had fundamentally…

Oregon's high court said Saturday that a Baker County judge faces a choice, which could shape the fate of a legal challenge to Gov. Kate Brown's coronavirus-related executive orders.

The group of churches suing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown argues she has exceeded her authority, saying her executive orders are limited to 28 days unless she asks for an extension from the Legislature.