The Oregon Constitution: 150 Years in the Making

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Friday, May 15, 2009
Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Portland, Oregon
6.5 MCLE Credits

ABOUT THIS PROGRAM

In celebration of the Sesquicentennial of the Oregon Constitution, OLI has gathered an outstanding faculty from the Oregon Supreme Court and Oregon Court of Appeals, as well as leading government and private practitioners to discuss important state constitutional provisions and current case law interpreting these provisions. Our distinguished faculty will offer practical advice about how to litigate a state constitutional law case and how judges interpret constitutions and precedents; will examine Oregon’s free speech law, discuss the current status of the initiative and referendum process in Oregon, and look ahead to the future of the Oregon Constitution.

SCHEDULE

8:25 - Welcome and Introduction

8:30 - 9:30 - Litigating a State Constitutional Law Case
• How to raise state constitutional issues
• Opportunities for award of attorney fees
• Facial vs. as-applied claims
• Justiciability of state constitutional claims
Moderator: James E. Mountain, Jr., Harrang Long Gary Rudnick PC
– Robert M. Atkinson, DOJ Appellate Division
– Robert K. Udziela, Attorney at Law
– James N. Westwood, Stoel Rives LLP

9:30 - 10:15 - Interpreting Constitutional Text
• How the Oregon Supreme Court construes state constitutional provisions
– Original text
– Initiated amendments
• Is the “first things first” jurisprudence still vibrant? What considerations drive a different interpretation of an Oregon constitutional provision than the interpretation give to an analogous federal constitutional provision?
• The search for original intent and historical sources for the Oregon Constitution
– Hon. Thomas A. Balmer, Oregon Supreme Court
– Hon. Virginia L. Linder, Oregon Supreme Court

10:15 -10:30 - Break

10:30 - 11:15 - Current Issues in Initiative and Referendum Law
• Implementation of 2007 statutory provisions
• Current reform efforts
• Case law update
• Meaning of “laws” under Article IV, section 1
• Single subject limitation on initiated laws
• Separate vote requirements for two or more constitutional amendments under Article XVII, section 1
• Federal constitutional limitations on initiative powers
Moderator: Mark Johnson, Johnson & Lechman-Su PC
– Hon. Kate Brown, Oregon Secretary of State
– Greg A. Chaimov, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
– Mary Williams, Deputy Attorney General, Oregon Department of Justice

11:15 - 12:00 - Speech Protection – Article I, Section 8
• VanNatta and application to campaign finance and lobby expenditure limit laws
• Outdoor Media Dimensions and time, place, manner limitations
• Historical exceptions under Robertson category one laws
Moderator: Hon. Timothy J. Sercombe
– John DiLorenzo Jr., Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
– Hon. Rives Kistler, Oregon Supreme Court
– Hon. David Schuman, Oregon Court of Appeals

12:00 - 1:15 p.m. - Lunch (on your own)

1:15 - 2:45 - Limitations on Tort Remedies
• Case law update
• Statutory reform proposals on tort claims act
• Article I, section 10 – the Remedies Clause in the aftermath of Smothers and Clarke
• Jury trial rights under Article I, section 17
• Article I, section 20 – Not an equal protection clause, but
• Sovereign immunity and remedies against governmental entities and employees under Article IV, section 24
Moderator: Meagan A. Flynn, Preston Bunnell & Flynn LLP
– Kathryn H. Clarke, Attorney at Law
– William F. Gary, Harrang Long Gary Rudnick PC
– Janet A. Metcalf, DOJ Appellate Division

2:45 - 3:00 - Break

3:00 - 3:30 - An Overview of Oregon Religious Liberty Law
• The relatively barren constitutional landscape
• Statutory duties to accommodate religious belief
• Religion-based defenses to criminal prosecution
– Charles F. Hinkle,

3:30 - 4:15 - Panel Discussion on Future Oregon Constitutional Issues
• What provisions of the Oregon Constitution have been overlooked by lawyers and judges?
• Should the Oregon Constitution be revised?
Moderator: Hon. Jack L. Landau, Oregon Court of Appeals
– Charles F. Hinkle, Stoel Rives LLP
– Hon. David Schuman, Oregon Court of Appeals
– James N. Westwood, Stoel Rives LLP

4:15 - Adjourn

Tuition

(Tuition includes conference materials and refreshments.)

Video Replay Dates & Locations

Bend – 5/29/09
Bryant Lovlien & Jarvis
591 Mill View Way

Eugene – 5/22/09
Harrang Long Gary & Rudnick PC
360 East 10th Ave., Ste. 300

Medford – 5/22/09
Kellington Krack Richmond Blackhurst & Glatte LLP
23 Newtown Street

Portland – 6/3/09
Oregon Law Institute
Gus J. Solomon Courthouse
620 SW Main St., Ste. 706