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Organ Donation in Oregon: Now Online Registration

Posted on January 28, 2008
You can now go online to register your wish to become an organ donor. For more information, go to:** Donate Life NW** Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (HB 3092), 2007 Oregon Laws 681** Codified in several ORS statutes (after the 2007 ORS comes online)

Criminalizing the Mentally Ill Indigent in Oregon

Posted on January 25, 2008
An editorial (commentary/opinion) in the 1/25/08 Oregonian, ?A costly wreck in need of a cleanup,? by Steve Tackett-Nelson, President of the Oregon Psychiatric Association, about mental health care in Oregon:Excerpt from full article:?Over the past 30 years there has been a quiet movement to criminalize being mentally ill while indigent...

Collaborative Divorce

Posted on January 25, 2008
The Oregon Divorce Blog has a post about collaborative divorce, which is fairly new to Oregon. Divorce lawyers know about it, but not many of their future clients do.More about Collaborative Divorce here, here, and here.

Oregon Lawyer and Legal Bloggers

Posted on January 25, 2008
I link to Oregon Legal Topics blogs and Oregon lawyer's blogs ? see the Oregon Legal Research sidebars to the right - including topical blogs on Employment, Insurance, Business Litigation, Divorce, Labor & Employment, Constitutional law, and Sustainability...

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Oregon Supreme Court Decides ?Circumcision Case?

Posted on January 25, 2008
OJD Media Release (summary) is here and full opinion is here.Full case name is: In the Matter of the Marriage of JAMES H. BOLDT, Respondent on Review, and LIA BOLDT

WW Shortlist of Federal Judge Candidates for U.S. D.C., Oregon

Posted on January 25, 2008
The Willamette Week, on 1/22/08, ran a story that lists 8 candidates on the shortlist: Gordon Smith?s Choice for Federal Judge: The CandidatesHere is some information on federal court judges, history and appointment process:U.S. Courts dot govOne view of the political process surrounding appointments and here...

Researching Long-Term Adult Care Options

Posted on January 24, 2008
The Jan. 20th, 2008, Oregonian article, by Aimee Green, Check out Adult Care before you Check In, has a useful ?Fact Box.? If that ?Fact Box? disappears over time, here are the resources listed:Oregon's Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman -- 503-378-6533 or 800-522-2602 -- will look up annual inspection reports for callers...

State Buries Slide Risk? Not digging that hole might get you buried

Posted on January 24, 2008
Real research means digging deeply and not all holes you dig are perilous ones. Some might save your life.Oregonian, Jan.20th, 2008, State Keeps Slide Risk to Itself, by Michael Milstein.Excerpts from article:?State geologists predicted the landslide that crushed homes and severed U...

Empirical Legal Studies Database (ELSD)

Posted on January 18, 2008
This is probably not a best-seller amongst my solos and small law firm practitioner law library patrons, but if that rare question arises, maybe this database could help me find them the answer.Empirical Legal Studies DatabaseAnd what is an ELSD? From their own description, here?s an excerpt:?? We selected the journals for inclusion in the database in multiple steps...

A Digital Black?s Law Dictionary

Posted on January 18, 2008
Also from a Stark County Law Library blog post, here?s the (new) legal writer blog with a link to a digital Black?s Law Dictionary.

Pocket Guide for Judges on the State-Secrets Privilege ?

Posted on January 16, 2008
beSpacific posts this, New Publication Helps Judges On Classified Information.Excerpt from beSpacific post/:?? This pocket guide is designed to familiarize federal judges with statutes and procedures established to help public courts protect government secrets when courts are called upon to do so...

Deep Repositories of Scholarship (and "Information")

Posted on January 16, 2008
beSpacific also posts about the University of California?s eScholarship Repository, which is an amazing collection of scholarship, commentary, research, wisdom, and I'm sure even foolishness.I?ve blogged before about the University of Oregon?s Scholars? Bank...

What is an Oregon Deadbeat Dad?

Posted on January 15, 2008
Steve Duin?s column in the Oregonian today, Jan. 15th, 2008, ?Separating the dads from the real deadbeats? will have a lot of lawyers and law librarians nodding their heads. We?ve all heard about this problem from the people who cross our thresholds.The case referred to in Duin?s column is ARVIDSON v...

State Public Records Databases

Posted on January 15, 2008
Here is an easy to use, nicely laid out, compilation of state public records databases, from BRB Publications, which has lots of free stuff.It?s not free for them to take the time and expertise to compile these lists in user-friendly format and post the information on their web pages so we thank the publisher for this public service.

Legal Research Search Engines

Posted on January 15, 2008
It takes a lot to rock a law librarian?s boat, but a nifty search engine for legal research guides, and other research resources, comes close to doing so.See BoleyBlogs, Jan 11th, 2008, post about Cornell?s new and improved InSITE current awareness service and the Legal Research Search Engine.

Law Library Thing: Tarlton, Yeshiva, U Penn, Los Angeles Co, and MORE

Posted on January 14, 2008
Liz, who keeps us abreast of law-related goings-on at one of our local public libraries, points out that LibraryThing now has a LAW Library Thing going-on with lots of law library catalogs making their appearances, including some of the biggies around the county...

Full-tilt Legal Research Resources for Ordinary People

Posted on January 14, 2008
I?ve blogged before about HeinOnline, but still run into local attorneys and legal historians and legal researchers who don?t know what HeinOnline is and who don?t know they have free access to it using their public library card (see below for who is eligible):Contains full-text databases, including:* Law journals (issues back to their inception)* U...

ISO the Right Search Engine for the Job

Posted on January 11, 2008
The December 2007 Tip from Mary Ellen Bates, of Bates Information Service, is on All the OTHER Search Engines, and you know what that means.Excerpt from the December Tip (see also the archive of her Research Tips):?Yes, we all Google, although I have recently started Yahooing more than I Google...

Outsourcing Legal Research

Posted on January 11, 2008
The Legal Process Outsourcing blog has an interesting post about outsourcing legal research.Excerpt from the post:?? Legal research in the practice of law is time-consuming, difficult and often times expensive-both for the lawyer and certainly for the client...

Death with Dignity, Physician Assisted Suicide in Oregon & Washington

Posted on January 11, 2008
The Oregonian, on January 10th, ran lengthy articles (by Don Colburn and Daniel Bergner (article at the NYT) , about Washington State?s physician-assisted suicide, aka Death With Dignity, measure that may go to their November 2008 ballot.It?s My Decision is a website for Washington State Death With Dignity measure advocates...

How to Make an Oregon Law Librarian?s (and Lawyer?s) Heart Beat Madly

Posted on January 11, 2008
Some of the scariest words we hear in the law library are from non-attorney patrons who walk into the law library and say things like this:?I need advance directive, will, and trust forms for my 87 year-old neighbor. I just want to take them to her so she can fill them out...

Executive Compensation Disclosure Database

Posted on January 11, 2008
It?s 8:37 a.m. Do you know how much that company?s CEO is getting paid?The SEC is rolling out this interactive database, Executive Compensation Disclosure.Thanks to Mary Ellen Bates Librarian of Fortune for the tip and for her blurb on this SEC database.

Price Gouging When Disaster Strikes: Clatsop, Columbia, & Tillamook Counties

Posted on January 10, 2008
From the Oregon Attorney General?s web page (and here):"The Governor has declared an Abnormal Disruption of the Market for the following Counties: Clatsop, Columbia and TillamookThe Abnormal Disruption of the Market began on December 11, 2007If you believe that a merchant or wholesaler offered to sell, or did sell, essential consumer goods or services for an amount that represents an unconscionably excessive price in the affected geographical area, please contact the Attorney General...

Outsourcing Legal Research

Posted on January 10, 2008
The Legal Process Outsourcing blog has an interesting post about outsourcing legal research.Excerpt from the post:?? Legal research in the practice of law is time-consuming, difficult and often times expensive-both for the lawyer and certainly for the client...

Annotated Justinian Code now Online

Posted on January 10, 2008
Fred Blume?s Annotated Justinian Code is online, thanks to the University of Wyoming, College of Law.Now if only all the UK statutes (not just recent ones, where recent means 19th century forward :-) were online ?. I can dream, can?t I? And it?s not as if all U...

?More Eager I am to Pay a Lawyer than a Crook?: Consumer Law ? No Small Matter for Ordinary People

Posted on January 09, 2008
A Hillsboro Argus, January 8th, 2008, opinion piece by Nick Christensen is (yet another) example of how difficult it is and how much time, energy, knowledge, and creativity people need to solve what should be simple consumer problems.Excerpt from whole story:??...

Declaring Paternity in Oregon

Posted on January 09, 2008
Bend Bulletin story by Sheila Miller, on January 6th, 2007, ?Obscure law keeps Bend father from challenging adoption.?Excerpt from full article:?I think that most men have not a clue how quickly they lose their rights in the state of Oregon,? Dick said...

Towing in Oregon: The Beat Goes On

Posted on January 08, 2008
Towing is nothing if not exciting in Oregon (and probably elsewhere around the world). Local papers seem to run a ?towing? story every week. The 1/8/08, Oregonian story, ?Complaints push police to overhaul tow policy,? by Maxine Bernstein, is only the latest one...

New Filing Fees in Oregon Courts

Posted on January 08, 2008
The Oregon Business Litigation Blog posted this on 1/4/08:Excerpt from full post:?Litigation is about to get a little more expensive in Oregon. Starting February 1 a filing fee must accompany certain motions and responses to motions in state court. The fees -- $50 for motions and $35 for responses -- apply to filings including Rule 21 motions to dismiss, summary judgment motions, and motions to compel discovery...

(More) Oregon Condo Law

Posted on January 08, 2008
I?ve blogged a lot about condo law for a reason. (See here and here.) Condo homeownership is fairly new to Oregon, and a lot of Oregon lawyers, and there is an awful lot of Feeling your Way going on for condo buyers, sellers, boards, lenders, owners, management companies, and lawyers...

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