The Oregon Supreme Court will hear two cases during its annual visit to the University of Oregon School of Law on Thursday, March 13.
State v. Hickman and Doyle v. City of Medford will be heard back-to-back, beginning at 9 a.m. in Room 175 of the Knight Law Center, 1515 Agate St., in Eugene.
In State v. Hickman, the State of Oregon has been granted review of a Court of Appeals decision, reversing and remanding the murder conviction of defendant Jerrin Lavazie Hickman. The issues on review include admissibility of eyewitness identification and the question of whether an error of eyewitness identification evidence warrants reversal regardless of whether the error prejudiced the defendant.
In Doyle v. City of Medford, plaintiff Ronald Doyle filed an action to obtain group health insurance for himself, Robert Deuel, Benedict Miller and Charles Steinberg. The issue on review is whether Oregon law provides retired public employees a civil remedy for breach of the duty to make group health insurance coverage available to retirees.