Electronic Filing
Electronic filing is now available for the Supreme Court
Oregon Supreme Court
Justices of the Supreme Court of Oregon
Standing from left to right: Justice Rives Kistler,
Justice Martha Lee Walters, Justice
Virginia L. Linder.
Seated from left to right: Justice
W. Michael Gillette, Chief Justice Paul J.
De Muniz,
Justice Robert D. Durham, and
Justice Thomas A. Balmer,
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.
For a more detailed description of the Supreme Court, see An
Introduction to the Courts of Oregon and the 2006
State of the Oregon Courts report. For information on fees, transcripts,
appellate case processing, and sample forms, see Appellate
Court Records. If you are filing a brief on the merits, please review
the new requirement to email .pdf copies
in addition to filing paper copies.
If you are looking for
information on a pending case, please note that the court does
not announce more than one day in advance when it will issue an opinion.
You can find the opinions and any announcements about opinions the court
expects to issue the next day on the Opinions
page. For other information on pending cases, please contact Appellate
Court Records.
Supreme
Court Justices
Paul
J. De Muniz
Chief Justice
503.986.5709
Thomas
A. Balmer
Justice
503.986.5717
Robert
D. Durham
Justice
503.986.5725
W.
Michael Gillette
Justice
503.986.5705
Rives
Kistler
Justice
503.986.5713
Martha
Lee Walters
Justice
503.986.5668
Virginia L. Linder
Justice
503.986.5701
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503.986.5566
