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Booth v. Tektronix, Inc.

Citations

  • 823 P.2d 402
  • 312 Or. 463
  • 1991 Ore. LEXIS 100

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  • holding that, when the legislature has delegated authority to an agency to define policy by promulgating rules, a court’s review of the board’s exercise of that authority is “largely deferential”
  • holding that, when the legislature has delegated authority to an agency to define policy by promulgating rules, a court's review of the board's exercise of that authority is \largely deferential\
  • explaining that the workers' compensation system was created to \streamline the process by which injured workers could be paid for compensable injuries\ and declining to preclude employer-physician communication when the legislature did not expressly undertake to do so
  • “Weighing of policy arguments [in the context of workers’ compensation law] is within the purview of the legislature, not the courts.”
  • “Weighing of pol- icy arguments [in the context of workers’ compensation law] is within the purview of the legislature, not the courts.”
  • uphold- ing the board’s authority and deferring to the board’s inter- pretation through its orders of its own rules concerning the admissibility of evidence resulting from prehearing commu- nication between defense counsel and the claimant’s treat- ing physician

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Judges: Peterson, Carson, Jones, Gillette, Van Hoomissen, Fadeley, Unis

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