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Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1937 / Served to 1968

Hall S. Lusk

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Hall S. Lusk was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1883–1983
Tenure: 1937–1968 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Georgetown University
University of Portland

Judicial Record

In our data, Lusk authored 500 published opinions for the court (1937–1968), plus 25 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: Waterway Terminals Co. v. P. S. Lord Mechanical Contractors (154 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 316 of these were attributed to Lusk by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1965	Waterway Terminals Co. v. P. S. Lord Mechanical Contractors†	406 P.2d 556	154
1942	Public Market Co. v. City of Portland	138 P.2d 916	134
1950	Cowgill, Adm'r v. Boock, Adm'r· Dissent†	218 P.2d 445	128
1941	Hinish v. Meier & Frank Co.	113 P.2d 438	102
1951	State v. Leland	227 P.2d 785	100
1953	State Ex Rel. Ricco v. Biggs· Dissent†	255 P.2d 1055	93
1942	Cabell v. City of Cottage Grove	130 P.2d 1013	93
1967	Uris v. State Compensation Department†	430 P.2d 861	90
1949	Van Lom v. Schneiderman	210 P.2d 461	89
1957	State v. Reyes	308 P.2d 182	88
1967	Casey v. Manson Construction & Engineering Co.†	428 P.2d 898	83
1948	McIver v. Norman· Separate	213 P.2d 144	72
1965	Mayor v. Dowsett†	400 P.2d 234	71
1945	Fullerton v. Lamm	165 P.2d 63	67
1953	State of Oregon v. Nodine†	259 P.2d 1056	66

Showing the 15 most-cited of 561 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Oregon Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Hall S. Lusk on?: Hall S. Lusk was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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31 years on the Oregon Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).