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Oregon Single-Payer Health Care Conference, January 2011

Posted on January 27, 2011
The Willamette Week has an article about the Oregon Single Payer Health Care Conference, to be held Saturday, January 29, 2010:Coverage for All: Is Single-Payer Health Care the Cure for Oregon?, by Stacy Brownhill:?State Rep. Michael Dembrow wants to establish in Oregon what the White House and Congress couldn?t do in last year?s healthcare reform effort: single-payer health care...

2011 State of the Oregon Judiciary

Posted on January 26, 2011
You can view the 2011 State of Judiciary presentation by Chief Justice Paul J. De Muniz at the OJD website. And you can read the transcript, too.If the State of the Courts Addresses link does not work, you can also link to it from the OJD News webpage (and then click on What?s New)...

Abortion: ?Listening Beyond Life and Choice?

Posted on January 25, 2011
I heard a provocative, and wonderful, interview (with Frances Kissling) on the radio the other day, at On Being, the Krista Tippett radio program that is broadcast on OPB Radio on Sunday evenings, from 7-8 p.m.I almost turned the radio off, not being much in the mood for ?yet another? abortion debate...

Librarians: State and County Law Libraries: Funding and Governance DRAFT Grid

Posted on January 25, 2011
We've been working with AALL-SCCLL members to update a state-county law library organization and funding grid, but we are still missing feedback from librarians in several states. If you have reason to think the information in the following grid is incorrect for your state, or if you know there is a more accurate way to describe the situation, please let me know:Washington County (Oregon) Law Library, Librarian Resources, and click on ?1) DRAFT ?...

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Oregon Ballot Initiatives: Multnomah County Library ?Conversation Project?

Posted on January 25, 2011
Multnomah County Library?s ?Conversation Project? (?[t]his series is part of a statewide humanities program that promotes thoughtful discussions about important ideas.?) covers some interesting topics, including this one:The Voters Have Spoken: Oregon's Controversial Ballot Initiatives, with Jackson Miller, Saturday, March 19, 2?3 p...

Oregon Legislative Hearing Minutes: A Reminder

Posted on January 21, 2011
In these opening days of the 2011 Oregon Legislative Session, a reminder is in order, especially for people who know they will likely have to compile a legislative history one of these days:Public records laws, open secrets policies, public meetings laws are all well and good ? and you can see Oregon?s Public Records and Public Meetings Manuals posted at the Department of Justice website - but what do you do if you need a legislative history of a law, including its public hearings?People use their public law libraries and the State Archives (in Salem) every day to research legislative histories of Oregon laws...

Law Librarian Named GPO?s Assistant Public Printer

Posted on January 20, 2011
Public Printer Bill Boarman has named Mary Alice Baish Assistant Public Printer, Superintendent of Documents, for the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).A proud day for all law librarians! Mary Alice Baish, formerly Director of Government Relations for the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), is a great friend to public librarians, too...

Effective Dates of (Oregon) Legislation and Ballot Measures

Posted on January 18, 2011
One of our local attorneys and I have been having a conversation about effective dates of ballot measures. Effective dates for ballot measures are different from the constitutional and statutory ones for statutes that are enacted by the Oregon Legislative Assembly...

Kip Kinkel Case (Oregon)

Posted on January 13, 2011
The Kip Kinkel case (Kinkel v. Lawhead (A137866),decided by the Oregon Court of Appeals on January 12, 2011, can be found at the OJD website:Link to full case or to the very helpful Media Releases, where you can find summaries for most Oregon appellate court decisions.

Proposed Oregon Uniform Trial Court Rules (UTCR) Changes

Posted on January 13, 2011
From Oregon Judicial Department (OJD) Media Releases:? Notice of Opportunity to Review and Comment on Proposed Uniform Trial Court Rules Changes for 2011 (Then click on "What?s New.")This notice is made pursuant to UTCR 1.020(3) which requires official notice of proposed changes to be posted on the Oregon Judicial Department website (http://www...

"How an Idea Really Becomes a Law? in the Oregon Legislature

Posted on January 13, 2011
Just a reminder about this terrific resource:"How an Idea Really Becomes A Law," 36 Willamette L. Rev. 1 (2000), by former Legislative Counsel Gregory A. Chaimov, (or link to it from the Oregon Legislative Counsel website).There is also a lot of information on the Legislature's website about how to testify before an Oregon legislative committee.

Access to Justice: Ideas and Business Models

Posted on January 11, 2011
The process of creating and implementing new business models, for businesses, for nonprofits, for libraries, and for the legal profession, begins with discussing and examining new ideas.The new biz model might be a Virtual Law Office or it might be a new idea, or germ of an idea, on providing legal services to people who can?t afford to hire lawyers:Here?s a suggestion about the latter, and to paraphrase John Gear, if you don?t think that there is great demand for people who need but can?t afford lawyers, hang around a legal aid office (or ask a public law librarian):Oregon State Bar (OSB) Bulletin, January 2011, "Parting Thoughts: Rethinking Bar Admissions," by John GearExcerpt: "...

Access to Justice: Oregonians Who Can?t Afford Lawyers: Quotations

Posted on January 11, 2011
A former Umatilla County Law Librarian said during a discussion about the importance of public law libraries:?The folks who cannot pay for a private attorney and cannot get a legal aid attorney are already disadvantaged in being forced to be self represented...

Will the Virtual Law Office (VLO) Make an Appearance in Oregon?

Posted on January 11, 2011
Bob Ambrogi?s Law Sites blog post of 1/9/11, brings us an update on Xemplar, where you can read about exemplary lawyers.Exemplar?s January 2011 featured lawyer, Stephanie Kimbro, has created a Virtual Law Office (VLO) that sounds quite intriguing and is surely just the front end of a wave of VLO lawyers.

Oregon Public Affairs Forums

Posted on January 10, 2011
There are a number of public affairs forums across the state, dozens, maybe hundreds, if you include all the ?speaker? series offered by local nonprofits, libraries, political, and educational and religious organizations. Check your local news and events sources to find out what is happening in your community...

Oregon Legal Ethics ?Hot Potato? Rule

Posted on January 10, 2011
This January 2011 MBA article by Mark Fucile on the "Hot Potato" Rule is either less or more interesting than you might imagine. It is less, if you think it?s an article about lawyers who stand-up their friends and dates when a ?better offer? comes along, though, come to think of it, it?s not really much different from that sort of situation...

Are Paralegals Happier than Lawyers? (and other Oregon legal news)

Posted on January 10, 2011
A colleague passed this along, from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Law Blog (and you can read other WSJ blogs, too):?Survey Says! Paralegaling is a Better Job than Lawyering,? WSJ Law Blog, 1/6/11The WSJ Law Blog seems to have a slightly higher caliber of Comments than some other news websites and blogs...

2011 Oregon Legislature: Legislative Sessions, History, and Bills

Posted on January 07, 2011
1) Stay tuned for the 2011 Oregon Legislative Session. And don?t forget that we will now have annual sessions, which will be even more exciting for law librarians who already have to explain the difference between session laws and codes. (You can also read about codification and my other attempt to explain session law vs...

Superheroes and the law

Posted on January 06, 2011
Law and the Multiverse: Superheroes, supervillains, and the law is a fun, new blog dealing with theoretical legal issues in relation to superheroes and comic books. The authors, licensed attorneys, apply existent laws to fantastic situations. For example, recent posts include "Supers and Social Secutiry," "Costumes and the Confrontation Clause," and "Supers and the Eighth Amendment...

Lexis and Westlaw Search Syntax Comparison and Cheat Sheet

Posted on January 05, 2011
While playing around with our newly installed OSB BarBooks database and came across this mysterious Boolean search: variable: 4 and weights:7While waiting for the answer to reveal itself, I went off to catch up with my law library blogs and ran across this excellent research tip post at the KCCLL (King County Law Library) Klues blog:?Cheat sheet? comparing Lexis and Westlaw search syntax Research TipsIt links to:LexisNexis and Westlaw Features Compared, from the Cleveland-Marshall School of Law Library...

Researching Oregon Paternity Law and Determinations

Posted on January 04, 2011
It?s time to update my 2008 post on Researching Oregon Paternity LawDepending on your specific question (and they do run the gamut!), here are some updated resources and links.1) Oregon DOJ Child Support Program: Determining Paternity and more2) The Legal Aid Services of Oregon (LASO) ?Oregon Law Help? website (click on Family, and then Paternity)3) Oregon Paternity Project4) Oregon State Bar (OSB) family, and paternity, law links5) Oregon?s Center for Health Statistics: Establishing Paternity On A Birth Certificate6) The Oregon Child Advocacy Project has good information on Oregon paternity law and practice...

Oregon Territorial Laws

Posted on January 03, 2011
Oregon territorial laws (Acts of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oregon (July 1849- May, 1950)) are now in Google Books.The simplest way to find them is to type the words ?oregon territorial laws? into Google Books.You can also search ?Oregon statutes? to find more...

Oregon Veterans Services and Resources

Posted on January 02, 2011
Multnomah County Library has created a web-guide to Veteran?s Resources.Other Oregon counties also have local Veteran Services offices, e.g. Washington County.

Justice Bedsworth on the Election of Judges

Posted on January 02, 2011
Start the new year with Justice Bedworth, who cuts to the chase, and the chuckle, when it comes to electing judges."Electoral Processpool," by Justice William W. BedsworthExcerpt: ??I?m pleased that my friends(2) have been impressed by the margin of my victory...

It?s NOT All Online: The Long, Slow Dance of Requesting Copies of Laws in Oregon

Posted on January 02, 2011
Despite cries from legislators and others that It?s All Online, in Oregon at least (and we really do know it's the same in other places), IT IS NOT ALL ONLINE!For example:Have you ever tried to find an Oregon city or county code without these dance steps?1) You phone and ask for a copy or fax or scan of x pages2) They say, ?mail us a request for what you want? (Mail? Mail? What year is this?)3) They say, we?ll figure out how many pages your request covers and then4) We?ll let you know how many pages and how much money you need to send us5) You then have to send a check in the exact amount due) Then, assuming all the stars are lined up, they will send you the photocopied pages ? through the mailThis is not an unfamiliar dance whether you are requesting court records or local government records...

?Free and Online? is not Quite the Same as ?Equal Access to Justice?

Posted on December 23, 2010
Lewis & Clark Law School Library?s ?Law in the News? roundup, brings us this story:"Law Libraries Struggle with More Patrons, Less Funding," by Jose Pagliery, Daily Business Review, December 15, 2010'... Pro se litigants, who often can't afford attorneys and instead choose to represent themselves, are quickly becoming the largest share of users of public law libraries, according to a statewide law library nonprofit...

Verdict $5.2 million: Law Professor vs Legal Publisher (with a side of free legal research and Fastcase)

Posted on December 23, 2010
For my regular readers who might want a break from the holiday madness and might (ho ho ho) be wondering about that $5.2m verdict win in the lawsuit filed by 2 law professors against "West publishing" (now a family member of theThomson Reuters corporation) here are a some links:1) Jonathan Turley blog postThe funniest Comment: "Regardless of such appeals, these two professors should be given credit for finally finding a way to become millionaires from a state law treatise...

Blogging and Comments: Comments on Blogs

Posted on December 21, 2010
Every blogger has a ?Comment? policy, written or unwritten. As ?public sector? bloggers, we have responsibilities (to readers and employers) beyond our own narrow personal preferences.I really like the Rules for Commenting that are posted at the Multnomah Law Library?s Social Software Policy for Multnomah County Library Users, and generally adhere to them myself:Excerpt: ?Rules for commentingProtect your privacy...

Read the Tax Bill (almost Law): ?Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010?

Posted on December 17, 2010
Better late than never, I think. If you want to read the tax bill that just passed the House and is now on the way to, if not already on, the President?s desk:?Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010? (Yes, that is what it?s called. Just sayin?)Bill Summary & Status, 111th Congress (2009 - 2010), H...

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Go Green: iPad & Kindle Appellate Court Briefs

Posted on December 16, 2010
This shouldn?t really be ?news,? but it is! And it may be really big news when it can be said of all appellate court judges, not just federal court judges.From the Law Librarian Blog:Justice Scalia Uses an iPad, Justice Kagan a Kindle to Read BriefsOf course, federal court judges and litigants have PACER, which makes all things litigious easier to manage than courts that don't have e-filing.

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