Crandall v. State

Held that the immunity provision of the Oregon Torts Claims Act, extending immunity to purportedly negligent public employees for claims by any person covered by any workers’ compensation law, violated Oregon Constitution’s remedy clause. Although the legislature had an interest in extending immunity to public employees while also protecting the state’s sovereign immunity, these reasons for departing from common law were insufficient to counterbalance interference with an injured persons’ substantive right to a civil remedy.