· 4/16/1997
Ortega v. Port of Portland
Citations
- 936 P.2d 1037
- 147 Or. App. 489
- 1997 Ore. App. LEXIS 521
How courts have described this case
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- holding general maritime law does not preempt Oregon's assertion of sovereign immunity for state-employed seamen entitled to workers' compensation
- noting that the case did not involve “an assertion of sovereign immunity by a ‘non-state’ sovereign” and citing Hale
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Judges: Deits, De Muniz Haselton, Haselton
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