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STATE EX REL. REED v. SCHWAB

SC 26199.

600 P.2d 387 (1979)

287 Or. 411

STATE of Oregon ex rel. John M. Reed, Plaintiff-Relator, v. Herbert M. SCHWAB, Robert Y. Thornton, Jason Lee, Jacob Tanzer, William Richardson, John H. Buttler, George M. Joseph, W. Michael Gillette, Betty Roberts, and J.R. Campbell, Judges of the Court of Appeals of the State of Oregon, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Oregon, In Banc.

Decided September 25, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Reed, argued the cause and filed briefs pro se.

Thomas H. Denney, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salem, argued the cause for defendants. With him on the brief were James A. Redden, Atty. Gen., and Walter L. Barrie, Sol. Gen., Salem.

Charles F. Hinkle, Portland, filed an amicus curiae brief for the American Civil Liberties Union.

HOWELL, Justice.

This is an original proceeding in mandamus in which relator, who is not an attorney, seeks to compel the judges of the Oregon Court of Appeals to allow him to present oral argument on his own behalf in four cases pending before that court. At issue is the validity of a rule of internal practice adopted by the Court of Appeals that provides in part:

"* * * When a litigant represents himself without counsel, the case will be ordered submitted...

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