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STATE EX REL. RAY WELLS, INC. v. HARGREAVES

TC 16-87-00357, TC 16-86-05386 AND TC 15-84-005514; SC S34919 (Control) SC S34932 and SC S35034.

761 P.2d 1306 (1988)

306 Or. 610

STATE of Oregon ex rel. Ray Wells, Inc., Plaintiff-Relator, v. The Honorable James R. HARGREAVES, Presiding Circuit Court Judge of the Second Judicial District of the State of Oregon, Defendant. State of Oregon, ex rel. Mildred Earle, Nka Dasher, Plaintiff-Relator, v. THE HONORABLE JAMES R. HARGREAVES, Presiding Circuit Court Judge of the Second Judicial District of the State of Oregon, Defendant. State of Oregon, ex rel. Faylene Fleming, Plaintiff-Relator, v. The Honorable James R. HARGREAVES, Presiding Circuit Court Judge of the Second Judicial District of the State of Oregon, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Oregon, In Banc.

Decided September 29, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Michael Alexander, Salem, argued the cause for defendant. With him on the brief was Burt, Swanson, Lathen, Alexander & McCann, Salem.

D. Ronald Gerber, Florence, filed an answering brief and argued the cause for plaintiffs-relators.

CARSON, Justice.

In this mandamus proceeding, three consolidated cases present the following question: Whether the judge-disqualification statutes, as amended by Oregon Laws 1987, chapter 338, constitute undue legislative interference with the judiciary?

The judge-disqualification statutes are codified in ORS 14.210 to 14.270. Of these statutes, only two are at issue: ORS 14.250 and 14.260(1).

ORS 14.250 provides for disqualifying a circuit court judge...

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