VANNATTA v. OREGON GOVERNMENT ETHICS COMM.

(CC 07C20464; CA A140080; SC S057570).

228 P.3d 574 (2010)

348 Or. 117

Fred VANNATTA and Center to Protect Free Speech, Inc., an Oregon Not-For-Profit Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. OREGON GOVERNMENT ETHICS COMMISSION, formerly known as the Oregon Government Standards and Practices Commission; and State of Oregon, Defendants-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oregon, En Banc.

Decided April 8, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John DiLorenzo, Jr., Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Portland, and Gregory A. Chaimov, Aaron K. Stuckey, and Alan J. Galloway, filed the petition for attorney fees, statement of costs and disbursements, and reply to defendant-respondents objection to petition for attorney fees.

Anna M. Joyce, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, John R. Kroger, Attorney General, and Jerome Lidz, Solicitor General, filed the objection to attorney fees for Oregon Government Ethics Commission.


DE MUNIZ, C.J.

In the underlying litigation, petitioners sought declaratory and injunctive relief based on various challenges to certain statutory restrictions on the solicitation, offering, and receipt of gifts and entertainment by various public officials and private persons. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the Oregon Government Ethics Commission and the State of Oregon (the state). On review, this court affirmed in part and reversed in part...

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