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STATE EX REL. MET. PUB. DEFENDER v. COURTNEY

(SC S50164).

64 P.3d 1138 (2003)

335 Or. 236

STATE ex rel. METROPOLITAN PUBLIC DEFENDER SERVICES, INC., an Oregon corporation, Plaintiff-Relator, v. Honorable Peter COURTNEY, President of the Oregon Senate, and Honorable Karen Minnis, Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, for themselves and on behalf of all other members of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Oregon.

Decided March 6, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don H. Marmaduke and Elden M. Rosenthal, Portland, filed the petition for plaintiff-relator.

Janet A. Metcalf, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, filed the memorandum in opposition for defendants. With her on the memorandum were Hardy Myers, Attorney General, and Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General.

William B. Crow and Christina Thacker, of Miller Nash LLP, Portland, filed a brief on behalf of amicus curiae Oregon Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Before GILLETTE, Presiding Justice, and DURHAM, RIGGS, De MUNIZ, and BALMER, Justices.

On Petition for Alternative Writ of Mandamus February 10, 2003.

De MUNIZ, J.

This is an original mandamus proceeding brought in this court under ORS 34.120(2) and Article VII (Amended), section 2, of the Oregon Constitution. Relator is the principal provider of legal defense services to indigent persons accused of crimes committed in Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas counties. Defendants are the presiding officers of the two houses of the Legislative Assembly...

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