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From ?Legisprudence? to ?I Have to Move My Car?

Posted on May 07, 2009
I like looking at new law book catalogs, especially those with the scholarly books I don?t get to see or read much anymore. Some people dream of bigger houses, faster cars, expensive jewelry, extensive travel. I am one of that other group who dream of more time to walk, read, sleep, perchance to eat -- in a nutshell, I dream of a little more leisure time (who doesn't!)...

Positive Law, Codification, and Peanuts (i.e. Linus)

Posted on May 07, 2009
KCLL Klues posted this Positive Law and other U.S. Code Mysteries a little while ago and it reminded me that some of my own readers are new to legal research and also curious about such things. What IS positive law anyway?No, positive law isn?t law in your favor, but that's not a bad guess...

Oregon Federal Public Defender Wins ABA 2009 Silver Gavel Award

Posted on May 05, 2009
Steve Wax, Oregon?s Chief Federal Public Defender has won the 2009 American Bar Association (ABA) Silver Gavel Award for his book, ?Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror.?

Publisher Confidential: What Librarians Want Publishers to Know

Posted on May 05, 2009
I like this: Publisher Confidential. Writers might find it useful too.It?s from the creators of Unshelved, who have been talking, and listening, to public librarians for a long time. You can download Publisher Confidential (PDF), free!Law librarians could probably add a few more pages, but we?re not as restrained as the public librarians featured in Publisher Confidential...

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Oregon Legislative History, Interpretation, and Intent: Post PGE v BOLI (1993)

Posted on May 05, 2009
For a lesson on how Oregon has heretofore interpreted legislative history (and intent) - and how they will do so henceforth:Oregon v. Gaines (SC S055031), April 30, 2009??The question presented -- i.e., whether defendant's conduct, as described, constituted a "means of * * * physical * * * interference or obstacle" within the meaning of ORS 162...

Oregon Constitutional Convention? Two Opinions

Posted on May 05, 2009
The Oregon State Bar (OSB) May 2009 Bulletin poses the question: ?An Oregon Constitutional Convention??James Westwood weighs in, YES, we do need a new constitution:Excerpt: ?The Oregon Constitution hardly deserves the name, and not just because it is fouled by scores of items and thousands of words that belong in a statute book, if anywhere...

Oregon Renters / Tenants in Foreclosed Housing: 2009 SB 952

Posted on May 05, 2009
Today?s Oregonian has an editorial by Oregon Senator Bonamici and Portland City Commissioner Nick Fish about Senate Bill: 2009 SB 952 (A-Engrossed) in PDF or HTML:Excerpt from the editorial: Renters, too, can face the hit of foreclosure:?Losing a home to foreclosure can be devastating...

Criminal Justice in Oregon: Enhanced Probation Probation

Posted on May 04, 2009
Re: Oregon 2009 HB 3264Oregon looks at tougher probation for lesser crimes, by Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Sunday May 03, 2009:Excerpts: ?Gov. Ted Kulongoski wants to use $13.5 million of Oregon's federal stimulus dollars to create an enhanced probation program for repeat property and drug offenders who might otherwise face prison under Measure 57...

ORS 153.058: Citizen Initiated Citations in Oregon

Posted on May 04, 2009
For those of you tracking citizen?s arrest cases:Oregonian article: Parking-law bulldog drops a case: Citizen citations - Attorney Eric Bryant ticketed officers in prohibited zones, May 02, 2009, Aimee Green:Excerpt: ?An attorney who sparked a widespread debate about whether police officers who aren't responding to emergencies need to follow parking laws has dropped his latest fight...

Justice Bedworth Reaches a Certain Age with Definite Misgivings

Posted on May 01, 2009
Justice Bedsworth, of the California Court of Appeals, returns with his, not to be missed, column in the Orange County Lawyer Magazine:?It?s Alright Ma (I?m Only Bleeding): ?After 28 years of filling this space, Beds suddenly notices he?s aging,? by Justice William W...

Love the One You're [Working] With: Solo Practice of Law

Posted on May 01, 2009
I really like this post at MyShingle about how you sometimes can?t know what you are capable of, or what you will like or not like, until you find yourself having to do it. It seems to go without saying, but it doesn?t! We know this is true of food (just taste it, please), sports (just play a little), avocations (mustard of the month, anyone?), but it is also true of work...

Oregon Swine Flu Information Center

Posted on April 30, 2009
The State of Oregon has set up a Swine Flu website, with links to guides, local resources, and more.There are, of course, other national and international sites you can visit for information, including the CDC , WHO, and PandemicFlu dot gov.Previous post on The 2009 Flu.

Perils of a New Washington County (Oregon) Law Library Website

Posted on April 30, 2009
The newly redesigned Washington County (Oregon) website is up and running, however ?One of the many perils of migrating to a new county webpage is that links from this Oregon Legal Research blog to research guides on the Washington County (Oregon) Law Library?s (WCLL) webpage will be misdirected...

More Free and Low-Cost Legal Research Tools

Posted on April 29, 2009
An excellent, and fast, tutorial on free and low cost legal research tools is available from the Duke University law librarians: The Unexploded Cow?s Guide to Legal ResearchMy previous posts on free and low-cost legal research are here and here (with additional imbedded links).

Oregon Home Ownership Preservation Event (re Foreclosure): May 2, 2009

Posted on April 29, 2009
An event in the Portland metro area (previously blogged about), open to all Oregonians, to assist people who facing possible foreclosure:Home Ownership Preservation EventFREEOpen to the publicSaturday, May 2, 200910 a.m. to 7 p.m.Portland Memorial Coliseum300 Winning Way, Portland, OR 97208Free parkingOn the TriMet MAX line, Rose Quarter Transit CenterTo register, please click here or call (in Salem) 503-947-7854 or 503-947-7068...

One Flu Over the Health Care Abyss

Posted on April 28, 2009
Government website on the flu: PandemicFlu dot gov. Also, from the CDC , WHO, Wikipedia and beyond, learn about Endemics, and pandemics and Epidemics.Those of you who have read some histories of the Flu of 1918 (as opposed to reading just headlines), or some of the less overwrought news (e...

Art and Law: the Intersection (via Maira Kalman)

Posted on April 27, 2009
If you missed the Maira Kalman and Justice Ginsburg May it Please the Court (and Pursuit of Happiness) illustrated article, from the New York Times, 4/23/09, catch it now.If you were wondering about Maira Kalman, try her webpage or Wikipedia entry. She also has a presentation at the TED conference, a source of much other inspiration (about which I blogged a while ago).

Oregon Interest Rates: How Much Can They Charge?

Posted on April 24, 2009
A question frequently asked in law libraries: What is the highest interest rate imposed on debts allowed by Oregon law?Here is my 2009 (before the end of the current 2009 Legislative Session) answer to the general question, when it comes to me via email...

Buying, Selling, Merging and Closing a Law Practice in Oregon

Posted on April 24, 2009
We?ve been getting excellent feedback on the ABA?s ?Buying, Selling, Merging and Closing a Law Practice?.When law partners part amicably, they may find that a how-to book is useful, but when they part less than amicably, they must have a book, forms, checklists, and sometimes more - a referee maybe?In Oregon, attorneys also have the incomparable PLF staff members who advise Oregon attorneys on all sorts of legal practice, and getting out of practice, issues...

Oregon House Bill "Wordle" Cloud

Posted on April 23, 2009
I saw the link to Wordle at a Jim Calloway blog post and decided to try it out with the text of a bill in the Oregon Legislature. Here is what Wordle does to it: 2009 HB 2813.Wordle has some interesting uses, perhaps for writers who want a check on what their article, story, or other writing reveals about their use/overuse of certain words...

Peeps in the Law: Sweet

Posted on April 22, 2009
We all need a little bit of comic relief and today's suggestion comes to you from the lawyers and law librarians behind: "Top 3 ?Peeps in Law? Entries" from the ABA Journal Law News Now, Apr 13, 2009,by Molly McDonough.Don't forget to click on the Peeps in Law Gallery for contest entries...

Consumer Law News and Advice in Oregon

Posted on April 22, 2009
The Oregonian?s Business section of the daily print paper has had such good consumer law and small business stories and information lately that I?m wondering why they call it Business, rather than Law or Working or Buying & Selling. (I?m sure one of their readers or reporters could come up with something better - naming newspaper sections is clearly not my bailiwick...

Oregon Lawyer Newsletters, Journals, and Newspapers

Posted on April 20, 2009
I don't generally put Works in Progress up on this blog, but I get questions about these publications and have been working on the following list in my spare time. But it?s slow going - spare time is a rare gift. It may be useful even in its draft form:OSB Section Newsletters (periodic): This is only a partial list...

Digital Rights Management, End Users, and the FTC

Posted on April 20, 2009
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Town Hall / Conference on DRMGiven how complex EULAs are (to the tune of whatever EULA wants, EULA gets), we don't get enough questions about them from the public. (Librarians are always agonzing over them, law abiding souls that we are...

When Lawyers Sue Legal Publishers: Contracts and/or Ethics?

Posted on April 16, 2009
This is an interesting story:Law Professors Seek Injunction over 'Sham' Treatise Supplement, by Shannon P. Duffy, The Legal Intelligencer, April 16, 2009.Excerpt: ?An ugly dispute has erupted between West Publishing and two law professors who claim they were falsely identified as the authors of an annual supplement to a treatise on Pennsylvania criminal law even though they had nothing to do with writing it...

Mexican and other Foreign Court Records Indexes and Databases

Posted on April 16, 2009
PI Buzz has a post, with Comments, about a Mexican court records database: Mexico Court Record Index Online.Finding other countries? court records databases doesn?t appear to be that difficult in a Google World, however, you should always try and talk to people who use those databases professionally to find out the pitfalls, the shortcomings, the strengths, and the alternatives...

Oregon Nonprofit Leaders Conference April 27-28, 2009

Posted on April 16, 2009
Visit the Oregon Nonprofit Leaders Conference website for more information. And look at their sponsors and their resource lists too.Meet with grant makers and grant writers, learn about managing staff and finances, and meet with others who have the same questions you do...

More Pigs (and Cows) and the Law

Posted on April 15, 2009
An Oregon county law library colleague found the ?pig? case we were looking for (previous pig post), except it turns out to be cows, not pigs - yoinks!(In everyone's defense, the students thought they were looking for a case about foreseeability or proximate cause, not res ipsa loquitur - and a pig and a gate and The Law - or so their instructors told them...

Pigs in Law and Literature

Posted on April 14, 2009
During a recent search for an old Oregon case* (at least we think it is an Oregon case - and even that it is old may be debatable), a colleague sent me a link to this news story about some feral pig legislation working its way through the Oregon Legislature: HB 2221 (PDF or HTML):Man vs...

What if the Beneficiaries of Your Estate Get Divorced?

Posted on April 13, 2009
People seeking to divorce often don?t realize how entwined their lives have become, with each other and with the law. It?s hard enough to deal with finances (and the dreaded QDRO) and ?telling the children,? but what do you do when the benefited children get their own divorces, and the will doesn?t specify what share, if any, the ex-spouse gets?A recent article in the April 2009 issue of the OSB Estate Planning and Administration Section newsletter (previous issues of the newsletter are free online) addresses some of these issues and looks at some recent Oregon cases:?How to Avoid Unintended Consequences of Estate Planning in Dissolution Court,? by Lisa Bertalan and Melissa Lande.

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