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Portland (Oregon) Tuba Christmas: Saturday, December 13, 2008

Posted on December 12, 2008
If you?ll allow me to go off-topic for a moment, the Portland Tuba Christmas (see here also) event is Saturday, December 13th, 2008.This is definitely a Do Not Miss event for everyone ? and I mean everyone ? at least everyone who likes to laugh. We might even have snow!

Oregon Revised Statutes vs. Oregon Laws

Posted on December 11, 2008
I?ve blogged about this before (here), but it is worth mentioning again (in different words) ? we get lots (and lots) of questions from people who would not have questions at all, or their legal reference questions would be quite different, if they understood the following...

Pro Se Litigants: Acting as Your Own Lawyer

Posted on December 10, 2008
The King County Law Library blogs about More People are Acting as their Own Lawyers, linking to this story:?More people acting as their own lawyers: Courts clog up as Americans represent themselves, even in complex cases,? updated 2:28 p.m. PT, Mon., Nov...

What Does One Do With a Bouncing (NSF) Check?

Posted on December 10, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:This question comes to law librarians with a variety of different back stories, but the gist of the question remains:Question: What DO you do with a check that keeps getting returned for insufficient or non-sufficient funds?Answer: Believe it or not, sometimes the answer is simple...

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Oregon Landlord-Tenant Law: Habitability Questions

Posted on December 08, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:Rental property Habitability questions can be separate from Repair questions for landlord and tenants, but the two can overlap, as you might imagine.Habitability questions we hear in the law library can be a broad as: what does a habitable apartment looks like? Or, as specific as: does an apartment have to have a window large enough for me to climb out?There are a number of excellent sources of information on Oregon landlord-tenant law, online (e...

Marketers of Mystery Shopper Scam Settle with FTC

Posted on December 05, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:See the press release at the FTC: Marketers of Mystery Shopper Scam Settle with FTCExcerpt:?An operation that lured consumers with promises that they could earn big money as trained and certified ?mystery shoppers? has agreed to pay $850,000 to settle charges of deceptive marketing and contempt...

Paralegals are not Lawyers, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat

Posted on December 05, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:Hot on the heels of yet another law library patron asking me to refer them to a paralegal instead of a lawyer (and we never, ever refer anyone to paralegals (aghhhh) or to specific lawyers ? just lawyer referral services) and my posting the other day about Liability for Lawyer Referrals, I read this decision by the Oregon Court of Appeals, Wythe v...

Liability for Lawyer Referrals in Oregon

Posted on December 03, 2008
Law librarians never make referrals to individual lawyers. Never. Never. Never. But, others can and do. Lawyers do and can, friends can and do. (And the best bartenders often have the best recommendations - they hear it ALL - but you still have to check the attorney's bona fides!) The Oregon State Bar (OSB) Referral and Information Service can and does make referrals to individual attorneys...

Oregon Debt Collection Woes and Rogues

Posted on December 02, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:The flurry of debt collector news stories this past week leads me to post a few of the places to start your research if you have unpaid bills and debt collectors contacting you ? and if you want to speak out to your state legislators (just in time for the beginning of the 2009 Oregon Legislative Session)...

Wrongful discharge and retaliation claims in Oregon

Posted on December 02, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:There is an interesting article in the Fall 2008 Litigation Journal, The Diminishing Viability of Wrongful Discharge Claims, pp. 6-9.(I also want to express my gratitude to the members of the OSB Litigation Section for making this newsletter freely available online...

Oregon?s Death with Dignity Law: A Ten-Year Review Article

Posted on December 01, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:The Neuroethics & Law Blog reports on (and links to) this article: Ten Years of ?Death with Dignity? in the New Atlantis.The New Atlantis (a Journal of Technology & Society) article is here.I posted previously on Oregon?s Death with Dignity law here...

It?s not Easy Being Judge or a Marmoset or Pregnant in the Carpool Lane or ? Snowball?

Posted on December 01, 2008
It?s also not easy to do the right thing for a man and his monkey.The Tyranny of Small Laws: Beds illuminates the way too difficult life of a compassionate bench officer (by Justice William W. Bedsworth):Excerpt:'G.K. Chesterton said, ?When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty...

Breast Cancer Legal Advocacy, in Oregon and the Nation

Posted on December 01, 2008
1) I just came across the American Bar Association?s Ten Steps to Protecting the Legal Rights of Breast Cancer Patients, including their Breast Cancer Legal Advocacy Project initiative.2) In Washington State, the Bar Association has released a resource guide (the link from this article may not work, in which case, link to the resource guide here)...

Oregon Road Kill Law

Posted on November 28, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:There are a lot of questions law librarians respond to that we would never, ever in a million years blog about, but others are, uh, fair game. This is one of them:Q: Are there laws about road kill, what we can do with it, what happens if we come upon it, etc...

Appealing Your Case in Oregon: Legal Research Resources

Posted on November 28, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:(This is a companion blog post to the previous ones on Writing (and Finding) Oregon Appellate Court Briefs and on Filing and Drafting Oregon Appellate Court Documents.)We?re working on a more comprehensive research guide of resources for people who are [contemplating] appealing their cases to the Oregon courts of appeals, but in the meantime, look for these at your law library...

Oregon Supplemental Local Rules and Legal Forms

Posted on November 25, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:This is a follow-up to my previous post for those of you looking for Oregon legal forms.Another important place to look for official, court-sanctioned, Oregon legal forms will be in the Oregon Judicial Department (OJD) Circuit Court Supplemental Local Rules (SLR)...

Pardon Me, but How Do I Request a Pardon from the Governor of Oregon?

Posted on November 24, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:How does one request a pardon? I wish I could say, ?let me count the ways.? But I can?t and highly recommend you talk to your lawyer, if you have one, or that you call the Oregon State Bar (OSB) to find a lawyer who can advise you (or read this How to Find a Lawyer in Oregon guide, which also links to the OSB)...

Water Law in Oregon

Posted on November 24, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:It can been said that future wars will be over food and water, especially water. The future is here and the wars are on, though for some (not all) that war is only between people wielding lawyers rather than swords:Navigating Water Law in Oregon, by Janine Robben, in the November issue of the Oregon State Bar (OSB) Bulletin, is a good read...

Oregon Foreclosures

Posted on November 21, 2008
Now if only we could stop looking to Congress to come to our rescue (Congress? To the rescue? Good grief!) from the stock market fearmongers and foreclosure doomsayers (and yes, Congress does have a role in fixing some problems, but so do we!) -- but let?s also keep moving along with a little education and self-help of our own:In my previous post on foreclosures in Oregon, I mentioned that the Oregon State Bar (OSB) was about to release two new Legal Links programs...

Writer Woes: Publisher Scams and Bankrupt Publishers

Posted on November 21, 2008
Writers have excellent online and professional organization resources (including libraries!) for researching the publishing business, but two topics a lot of writers don?t think about, until it?s too late:1) Publishing scams (see, e.g. Writers Beware, from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc...

Small Business Legal Advice

Posted on November 20, 2008
I read this Small talk blurb in the Thursday, October 23, 2008, Oregonian, and found some good advice and resources for small business owners:Excerpts from Small talk:??Many small-business owners believe you should never go it alone -- you should always have a support system, whether it consists of financial advisers, mentors, fellow entrepreneurs or consultants, to guide you...

Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #12, Article III, Distribution of Powers

Posted on November 20, 2008
Links to Previous Bites can be found at, Oregon Consitution in Small Bites: So Far.Today: Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #12, Article III, Distribution of PowersARTICLE IIIDISTRIBUTION OF POWERSSec. 1. Separation of powersSec 2. Budgetary control over executive and administrative officers and agenciesSec...

"Understanding Attorney Fees" Booklet from HALT

Posted on November 19, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:HALT has a new (free and downloadable) booklet on Understanding Attorney Fees: So You Can Keep Legal Costs Down. You can also link to it from the HALT homepage and from their Legal Information Clearinghouse webpage...

Copyrighting Legal Documents

Posted on November 17, 2008
The flux is at it again. You know, when some relatively rare topic arises in conversation and then it comes up again and again. (I blogged about the flux a long while ago, here, but I was in a chatty mood so it's a longer post than you might be up for...

Service Animals and the Law: Update

Posted on November 14, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:I posted recently about Service Dogs (and other animals) and in a recent Saturday?s Oregonian (11/8/08) there was a letter to the editor with a link to another resource on Service Animals:1) U.S. Department of Justice: type in service animal (singular) or service animals (plural) for different results...

Social Security Numbers: Privacy and Protection

Posted on November 14, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:Law librarians often get questions from patrons about their Social Security Numbers. Here is an interesting report:King County Law Library Klues blog post on Social Security numbers.

Legal Writing: Et al, Serial Commas, and Latin Words Bans

Posted on November 13, 2008
I was trying to decide if et al needed a serial comma ? and I came across this:In Bournemouth, England at least, ?plain language? means you can?t use these: E.g., bona fide, and more (etc. too)Excerpt from the story at Newstin dot com: Town halls ban staff from using Latin words, in case they confuse immigrants:?Bournemouth Council, which has the motto Pulchritudo et Salubritas - meaning beauty and health - has banned staff from using 19 Latin words Town halls have banned employees from using Latin words on documents because they could confuse people who don't speak English as their first language...

Blog Search Engines

Posted on November 13, 2008
In case you haven?t already seen this: Blog Search Engines, by Ann Smarty at Search Engine Journal.Thanks to iLibrarian for the lead.

Truck Drivers, Traffic Stops, and Oregon Trucker Weigh Stations

Posted on November 13, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:Public law librarians get the darnedest questions. It?s not so much the questions themselves, but that people think that we have answers to their questions. We don?t! But we like that people think about us when trying to solve their problems...

Oregon Family Law Resources:Collaboration and Beyond

Posted on November 10, 2008
The Oregon family of ?family law attorneys? comprised of lawyers, judges, the state bar, family law facilitators, and others is amazing. This family works so well together. They may not think they do, but from this law librarian?s desk, I am grateful for all the family law resources they make available to client and pro se litigant alike...

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