Oregon Supreme Court· 11/29/1996

State v. Webb

Citations

927 P.2d 79
324 Or. 380
1996 Ore. LEXIS 124

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holding that legislature granted two separate kinds of jurisdiction to district courts, i.e., same criminal jurisdiction as justice court and concurrent jurisdiction with circuit courts of misdemeanors for which punishment may not exceed $3,000 fine
applying “general grammatical rules” to interpret a statute, including rules about comma usage as relevant to the meaning of modifying clauses
declining to “alter the sentence in some way — by changing the punctuation or wording — in order reasonably to read the statute as defendant proposes”
statute that retroactively conferred subject matter jurisdiction on a court that lacked such jurisdiction clearly “violates federal due process requirements”
where modifying clause is not set off by commas, it is restrictive and therefore essential to the meaning of the sentence
“Lack of subject matter jurisdiction properly may be raised for the first time on appeal.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.)

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