LENT, Chief Justice.
The issue is whether the Oregon Tax Court could properly award attorney fees to a plaintiff who successfully contended that a gender-based tax exemption statute was unconstitutional where that success did not result in his obtaining the benefit of the exemption but, rather, resulted in no one being entitled to the exemption. We hold the award of attorney fees was improper.
A statute granted to the widow of a war veteran a certain exemption...
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