Opinion

Figueroa v. BNSF Railway Co.

  • 361 Or. 142
  • 390 P.3d 1019
  • 2017 Ore. LEXIS 164
Court
Oregon Supreme Court
Filed
Mar 2, 2017
Status
Published
Author
Walters
On the bench
Brewer, Kistler, Walters
Cited by
12 cases
Authority
More cited than 13.4%

identifying that principle of statutory construction

How later courts described this case

  • identifying that principle of statutory construction
  • “[T]he legislature did not intend that appointing a registered agent pursuant to [the Oregon registration statute] would constitute consent to the jurisdiction of the Oregon courts.”
  • “The legislature did not intend that, in appointing a registered agent, a foreign corporation also would impliedly consent to the jurisdiction of the Oregon courts.”
  • identifying existing law as context

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

WALTERS, J.,

concurring.

Giving effect, as I must, to the court’s decision in Barrett v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., 361 Or 115 , 390 P3d 1031 (2017), I concur in the court’s decision in this case.

Brewer, J., joins in this concurring opinion.

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