Court of Appeals of Oregon, 2020

Jones v. Bhattacharyya

Jones v. Bhattacharyya
Court of Appeals of Oregon · Decided October 7, 2020
307 Or. App. 200; 474 P.3d 464

Jones v. Bhattacharyya

Opinion

On appellant’s petition for reconsideration filed July 23, reconsideration allowed, former opinion (305 Or App 503, 471 P3d 135) modified and adhered to as modified October 7, 2020

Kajuanda JONES, Plaintiff, and Troy Austin PICKARD, Respondent, v. Keya BHATTACHARYYA, Defendant-Appellant.

Multnomah County Circuit Court 15CV32162; A165249 474 P3d 464

Jerry B. Hodson, Judge.

Steven F. Cade argued the cause for appellant. Also on the briefs were Charles R. Markley and Williams Kastner Greene & Markley.

Brooks F. Cooper argued the cause for respondent. Also on the brief were Mark Maricle and Draneas & Huglin PC.

Before DeHoog, Presiding Judge, and Aoyagi, Judge, and Kamins, Judge.

PER CURIAM Reconsideration allowed; former opinion modified and adhered to as modified.

Cite as 307 Or App 200 (2020) 201 PER CURIAM Appellant petitions for reconsideration of our opin- ion in Jones v. Bhattacharyya, 305 Or App 503, 471 P3d 135 (2020), asking that we clarify our opinion to address the first assignment of error that she raised in her opening brief. We allow reconsideration and modify the text of our prior opin- ion in two ways. First, we insert the following footnote at the end of the first paragraph: “Appellant also assigns error to the trial court’s denial of her subsequent motion for satisfaction of the supplemental judgment. However, the trial court did not reach the merits of that motion; instead, the court denied it as a motion for reconsideration that was impermissible under local rules.

On appeal, appellant does not make any argument that the trial court erred in characterizing her motion for satisfac- tion as a motion for reconsideration. Thus, our reversal and remand of the trial court’s order denying appellant’s first- in-time motion eliminates the need for us to further con- sider the trial court’s denial of appellant’s second motion.

Accordingly, we do not address whether the trial court erred when it concluded that appellant’s motion was an impermissible motion for reconsideration.”

Second, we modify the text of the last paragraph of our prior opinion before the disposition to read as follows (emphasis denotes added language): “This case demonstrates why the statute requires notice.

Here, respondent had a lien under ORS 87.445 on the sup- plemental judgment entered in his client’s favor. However, he did not claim the right to enforce that lien by filing a statutorily compliant notice until over a month after the judgment issued. In the interim, appellant issued a check for the full amount of the judgment to the listed judgment creditor, which allowed her to satisfy the judgment under its unaltered terms, and respondent cannot now seek to enforce his lien on that judgment against appellant. The trial court therefore erred when it denied appellant’s motion to chal- lenge the garnishment.”

Reconsideration allowed; former opinion modified and adhered to as modified.

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