WEBB v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

SC S44330.

952 P.2d 59 (1998)

326 Or. 524

John R. WEBB, Lynn Ogen, The John R. Webb Family Trust, James Little, Lyna Little, The Lyna Little Trust, Billy Cooper, Betty Cooper, Deborah Phillips, Harold Wickersham, Bernard J. Stormberg, Dolores P. Stormberg, The Citizens Group, Peggie Foy, Elaine Killen, Bruce Killen, Steve Arnold, Gretchen Arnold, and John L. Traynor, MD, Petitioners, v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Corrections Facility Siting Authority and John A. Kitzhaber, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oregon, In Banc.

Decided March 19, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Huttl, of Frohnmayer, Deatherage, Pratt, Jamieson & Clarke, Medford, argued the cause and filed the briefs for petitioners.

Robert M. Atkinson, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, argued the cause and filed the brief for respondents. With him on the brief were Hardy Myers, Attorney General, and Michael D. Reynolds, Solicitor General.


PER CURIAM.

This is a case of direct review of decisions by the Corrections Facility Siting Authority and the Governor to approve, and by the Department of Corrections to site, a prison at Stimpson Gulch in Jackson County.1 Petitioners own property in the vicinity of the proposed site. They challenge the siting decisions, raising several statutory and constitutional issues. We have considered all of petitioners' challenges, but conclude...

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