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Who are "the people?" What does it mean to be ?born in the U.S.A.??

Posted on April 08, 2009
Who are ?the people? the U.S. Constitution keeps referring to? (Notice how no one has taken up the Wiki Answer challenge to this question.)This is not an uncommon question in public libraries, law libraries, and in government documents libraries (even after the 2008 election)...

Misappropriated Dongles?

Posted on April 08, 2009
When you read documents with phrases like this, ?ISPI misappropriated the dongles,? is it any wonder that people want to return to darker ages (before computers and maybe even before electricity!) or want desperately to flee into the forest, or hide inside a beer, for a long while until the madness settles down?I?ve been reading, in a rather desultory fashion I admit, news about the (not yet final and not the only digital book project on the planet (see Open Content Alliance story in NYT)) Google Settlement and drifted from the excellent Library Law blog to Rebecca Tushnet?s posts on the subject (which is where the dongle discussion came from)...

License to Print Money? Researching Marijuana Taxation Law, History, and Practice

Posted on April 08, 2009
A recent bill in the Oregon Legislature, 2009 HB 3274 (HTML or PDF), and a question from a patron, started me thinking about what my research strategy might look like if I had to draft legislation on this subject or if I had to argue for or against taxing marijuana sales (medical marijuana or other uses, if any)...

ORS, Mendeleev, Roget, Tufte, and You?

Posted on April 06, 2009
I blogged a little while ago about a new website for the Oregon Revised Statutes. In the old days (pre-Web old days) you needed serious money, organization, and infrastructure to set up a publishing business so even if you had a better mousetrap, or a statute compilation, you probably cooled your jets and went off to practice law instead of building your own database...

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Blogging, Commitment, and Legal Cartoons

Posted on April 06, 2009
Blogging is a commitment - it?s not a civil (or criminal) commitment, although it sometimes may feel that way, but it?s still something to take seriously (and I also believe civilly), assuming you the blogger want to be taken seriously. You need to blog regularly to keep up the momentum, your own and your readers...

Death, Taxes, Bar Exams, and Access to Justice in Oregon

Posted on April 06, 2009
The Feb/March 2009 issue of the Oregon State Bar (OSB) Bulletin has an interesting editorial by Oregon attorney John Gear: A Better Beginning:There is no shortage of commentary on the life, death, and value of bar exams (including bar exam humor from Blawg Review), but that is as it should be...

Legal Notices and Service by Publication in Oregon

Posted on April 05, 2009
Attorneys know about legal notices, service by publication, or other publication requirements, but what about us normal people?! What are we to do?Here is a little guidance, but I also recommend you ask the judge (if it was a judge who told you to publish a legal notice) or consult an attorney...

Justice Bedsworth Tackles Bovid Jurisprudence

Posted on April 01, 2009
Justice Bedsworth is no Edward Albee (and we?re glad of that), but both can have you scratching your head(s) for reasons that become clear this month with the Justice?s column:Poof, The Magic Goat Man: ?This is what we get when the governor appoints an English major...

?Are you a licensed Oregon attorney?? is a Yes or No Question

Posted on April 01, 2009
Check Your ?Attorney?s? Bona Fides! (Don't be an April Fool.)?I thought he was a licensed attorney.??I thought a paralegal could advise and represent me.??He said he knew Oregon law.?If you hire someone who claims to be an attorney, or who hedges when asked, trust your instincts, because when your instinct detects hedging, your instinct is often a whole lot sharper than you are at the moment...

Can you Copyright a Tweet?

Posted on April 01, 2009
No, this is not a Twick or Tweet April 1st post?:It was only a matter of time before someone would ask if a Tweet could be copyrighted. I?ll let the lawyers discuss this, but for now this is only a matter of First Impression. I?m sure more discussion will ensue...

A Lease of Your Own: Renting a Room in Someone?s Oregon Home

Posted on March 31, 2009
Welcoming a renter into your home is a serious matter, whether that person is a friend, family member, or stranger. Becoming a tenant in someone?s home is equally serious. Make sure there is a lease.Do you want to draft a Lease of Your Own?1) There are "fill in the blank" forms, online and in print, but ...

Oregon Comcast Late Fee Class Action Lawsuit

Posted on March 31, 2009
For those who think that the wheels of (in)justice (as the case may be) grind slowly, here?s an example. (And for those of you with small children in your lives, think about those bus wheels going round and round, round and round, round and round, ?. For the rest of us, think of Jarndyce vs...

Think, Research, Listen, Speak: Cesar Chavez is a State Holiday Today, Somewhere

Posted on March 31, 2009
Forget Eat, Pray, Love or Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. My mantra is fast becoming:Think, Research, Listen, Speak.The arguments, legal, profound, profane, insane, in Portland, Oregon over naming a street after Cesar Chavez reminds me how quickly many of us are to speak (or comment on blogs) before doing the research...

Model COBRA Subsidy Notices

Posted on March 25, 2009
The World of Work blog has a post on Model COBRA Subsidy Notices, and links to relevant DOL websites. This is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (see also from Recovery dot gov).

Book: "Law and Magic"

Posted on March 25, 2009
Some law books just look as if they?d be more fun to read than others:Law and Magic, by Christine A. Corcos??Topics include alchemy in fifteenth-century England, a discussion of how a courtroom is like a magic show, stage hypnotism and the law, Scottish witchcraft trials in the eighteenth century, the question of whether stage magicians can look to intellectual property to protect their rights, tarot card readings and the First Amendment, and an analysis of whether a magician can be qualified as an expert witness under the Federal Rules of Evidence?? (link to publisher website)Or would you rather read the one I saw many years ago in a law library far, far away...

Oregon Power of Attorney ?Form?

Posted on March 24, 2009
Public law librarians frequently (sometimes it seems daily) get the question: Where can I find a Power of Attorney form (and preferably one online)?Please don?t try to short circuit this important, critical, legal protection. Here?s a sample response to the question:I don?t meant to sound lawyerly or librarian-ly(?), but it depends on what you mean by ?standard form,? what kind of power is being granted, who the parties are, what state everyone lives in, etc...

GPO Access Migration to FDsys

Posted on March 24, 2009
Gallagher Blogs reports on the migration of federal information from GPO Access to FDsys:?You might already be familiar with GPO Access, the website of the U.S. Government Printing Office, which provides free electronic access to the official documents of all three branches of the federal government...

Pro Se (self-represented) Litigant Service in California, Washington, and Oregon

Posted on March 23, 2009
Our neighbors to the north (Washington) and south (California) are often a step or two ahead of us when it comes to legal information and legal service to the people. (We are ahead in other ways (and don't fare too poorly on the free legal service front), so please don?t read this post as anything but Legal Research News - it?s not an arms race...

Resources for Homeless Veterans in Oregon

Posted on March 23, 2009
The Outreach and Referral System for Veterans will be expanding in Washington County, Oregon."Currently, all Veterans in our community can access VA benefits, services and assistance in completing discharge documentation (Form 214) through the Washington County Disability, Aging and Veteran Services (503-846-3060) and access employment training and resources through the Veterans Employment Representative (503-681-0219) at Worksource Oregon Employment Division...

Guides to Free and Low-Cost Legal Research Tools

Posted on March 23, 2009
Law school libraries are excellent sources of legal research guides. You can find many of them with a quick Google search using your topic keyword and then simply adding the words ?research guide.? Another useful search word is ?pathfinder.?This Guide to Free and Low-cost Legal Research is from Georgetown Law Library...

More Free Oregon Legal Information

Posted on March 23, 2009
This class for Landlords only: Landlord Study Hall 2009Previous Oregon Legal Research blog posts about free Oregon legal information, here and here and here.(And for those of you of a certain age or of a certain frame of mind, remember Abbie Hoffman?s Steal This Book, which, of course you can find free on the web...

Underwater Logging Laws in Oregon

Posted on March 22, 2009
If public law librarians had a motto, it might be:We don't make it easy, but we try to make it possible.This underwater logging reference question came to us (the 3 Oregon county law librarians who answer email legal reference questions for L-net, the online Oregon Statewide Reference Service)...

100 Uses for Pocket U.S. Constitutions

Posted on March 20, 2009
I frequently get calls from people looking for U.S. pocket constitutions and I happily refer them to our various sources, including this one, which is having a sale!But it occurred to me that I should start a 100 Uses for Pocket U.S. Constitutions list...

Oregon Legislative Summaries from Previous Sessions

Posted on March 20, 2009
In our continued exploration of the Oregon Legislature, in particular the information on their website, don?t forget the Committee Services webpages. Click on Committee Services Publications for, among other things, previous session summaries. You can find full session publications or view these reports section by section, e...

Foreclosure Rescue Scams (and a fake HUD Website)

Posted on March 20, 2009
The Oregon State Bar (OSB), Winter 2009 issue of the Debtor-Creditor Section newsletter (online only to section members) has a sobering article by Oregon attorney Terrance J. Slominski:?Foreclosure Rescuers: Good Samaritans or Scam Artists?? with a description of 4 categories of foreclosure scams, including: Sale-Leasback, Equity Stripping, Loan Modification, and Stealing the Home...

Airbags on Airplanes: Brace Yourself

Posted on March 18, 2009
We ask a lot of that airplane seatback in front of us. It has to be a tray, a TV, as far away as possible (and not sticky), and now it might soon contain an airbag.Here?s a story from the always interesting Popular Mechanics website: Airbags on Planes: Will a New FAA Regulation Pave the Way for Airbag Seatbelts, March 12, 2009...

Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS): New, Free, Legal Research Database

Posted on March 17, 2009
Give a big welcome to a (relatively) new entrant in the Oregon legal research database field of players: Oregon Laws dot org. It?s a legal research database designed and powered by law students (our future!). I like it so far - and its associated blog too...

Starting a Business in Oregon

Posted on March 17, 2009
We meet a lot of people who want to start a business but don?t know where to begin. Entrepreneurs with great ideas don?t always have good business sense, but they can acquire it (usually) - or find business partners who have it.Before you plonk down the first month's rent on a store front, or invest in any alleged money-making endeavor (especially if it eats), read the Starting a Business guides from the Oregon Corporation Division...

Authors and Lawyers and ?Book? Contracts

Posted on March 17, 2009
Owning the copyright is not enough. You have to protect it.If you write books and publish them, in paper or online, through a publisher or by yourself, you need to learn how to protect your copyright interests. Let your imagination be your guide. Who would have envisioned these events? Don't leave it to the science fiction and fantasy writers to imagine life, and publishing, in the future...

Oregon Local Court Rules

Posted on March 17, 2009
One day I'm going to blog about the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of legal research, though I'll put it more in terms of the Expensive, the Impossible, and the Obscure. For now, I'll limit myself to writing about The Boring, but Necessary: Court Rules (which have nothing to do with the popular saying, "Librarians Rule" :-)Court Rules run the gamut from the statewide Oregon Rules of Civil Procedure and Uniform Trial Court Rules and more, all of which you can find at the Oregon Judicial Department (OJD) website, under Court Rules...

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