Appeals judge who wrote opinion favorable to PacifiCorp in landmark wildfire case formerly represented the utility giant

Oregon judicial code suggests Anna Joyce should have recused herself. She did not.

 

By Jeff Manning

Oregon Journalism Project

The Oregon Journalism Project has learned that an Oregon Court of Appeals judge who sided with PacifiCorp in a case brought by thousands of rural Oregonians caught in the 2020 Labor Day wildfires represented the utility giant for years before she left private legal practice.

Judge Anna Joyce led a three-judge panel that threw out…

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