About Our Customers
Oregon
Oregon Supreme Court and Court of Appeals
About the Courts
The Supreme Court is the highest court in the Oregon judicial branch. The court has seven elected justices. They choose one of their own to serve a six-year term as Chief Justice. The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the United States Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court has "discretionary review" of cases from the Court of Appeals. A party who is dissatisfied with the Court of Appeals' decision may petition the Supreme Court to review that decision. The Supreme Court can choose to accept or deny the petition. In some cases, the Supreme Court has "direct review," which means that the case goes directly to the Supreme Court without first being considered by the Court of Appeals. In 2007, 1,314 cases were filed in the Supreme Court.
The Court of Appeals, created in 1969, is the first level of appeal following trial. The court has jurisdiction to hear all civil and criminal appeals from circuit court, except death penalty cases and Tax Court Appeals, and review most state administrative agency actions. The Court of Appeals has ten judge positions. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appoints the Chief Judge from among the ten judges on the Court of Appeals.
The Court of Appeals has one of the heaviest caseloads of any state intermediate appellate court, with 3312 cases filed in 2007, and 400 opinions written.
From the Court of Appeals, a party may petition the Supreme Court to review the case.
LT Court Tech Implementation
C-Track replaced an existing text-based trial court system that had been adapted to work for appellate courts. The core CMS was implemented in December of 2006 for the clerk’s office, with dynamic docketing, rules engine, and calendaring capabilities. Also included were settlement conference functions and interfaces to the state bar and the web calendars. In 2007 access to non-confidential cases was provided to the subscribed public and an interface to the accounting system was added, and in 2008 full opinion processing was implemented, including tracking opinion statuses, assigning work, managing the motions process, and producing conference reports and work lists. Also in 2008 the C-Track E-Filing component began providing e-filing capability for attorneys with cases in the appellate courts.
