Field Notes · OASTL

A working journal of the Oregon school-trust case.

The OASTL site now carries the full doctrinal and procedural backbone of the active case: the State's May 13 MSJ, the Combs procedural spine, the Comcast lawmaking-is-not-a-tort floor, the Pendleton plaintiff lineage, the corrected catch-up framing of the January 2026 standing ruling, and the Cascadia Wildlands doctrinal context.

2026-05-24 · v87

OASTL Oregon picks up the six Phase 2c doctrinal-propagation inserts.

Six surfaces touched in the May 2026 litigation-research sprint:

The State's May 13 Motion for Summary Judgment now acknowledged on the case-history page;
The two Combs letter opinions (Feb 26, 2024 and Mar 6, 2025) documented as the procedural spine of Siuslaw School District 97J et al. v. State of Oregon, 24CV38372;
Comcast of Oregon II v. City of Eugene, 346 Or 238 (2009), added as the lawmaking-is-not-a-tort floor under ORS 30.260(8) that the January 2026 Court of Appeals standing ruling sits atop;
The Pendleton SD 16R lineage noted — the same plaintiff that won the 2009 declaratory enforcement against the State is in the 2026 Advocates plaintiff group, and Siuslaw 97J is the matching plaintiff for 24CV38372;
The January 28, 2026 Court of Appeals standing ruling framed correctly as Oregon catching up to where other school-trust states have long been (not a national first; on appeal to the Oregon Supreme Court);
Cascadia Wildlands v. Department of State Lands, 365 Or 750 (2019), added as the doctrinal door the State leans on in its MSJ, with the sentence the State omits surfaced.