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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Posted on November 10, 2008
If you use the OHS research library, mark your calendar with the info below. If you?ve never visited OHS and their library, you?ve missed an Oregon treasure. Plan a trip during the upcoming holiday season when there are so many other events drawing you to downtown Portland...

Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #11 (Article II, Sections, 18-24, Suffrage and Elections)

Posted on November 09, 2008
Links to Previous Bites can be found here at, "Oregon Consitution in Small Bites: So Far"Today: Article II, Sections 18-2418. Recall; meaning of words ?the legislative assembly shall provide?22. Political campaign contribution limitations23...

Churchill not Reagan? ?Trust, but Verify?

Posted on November 06, 2008
Ye old, ?trust, but verify? cliché that many, most, attribute to Ronald Reagan, and that one hears way too often nowadays, surely goes back much further than Reagan, and likely even further back than the first place I read a version of it. It is certainly a turn of phrase that could easily be lifted (as have most of all our best lines :-) and used in other contexts, not excluding election campaigns:Winston Churchill?s, ?The Hinge of Fate,? 1950, Houghton Mifflin edition, page 687:??...

Gentlemen, Ladies ? Start your Resumes: the Plum Book is (almost) Open for Business

Posted on November 06, 2008
It?s almost Plum Book time again (see also here for links to previous Plum Books). If you?ve ever thought about becoming a belly-of-the-beast public servant (appointed) and working in Washington D.C. for a new Presidential administration, now is the time to get your resume out and buffed up...

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Nebraska?s Safe Haven Law and Oregon Parents

Posted on November 03, 2008
Maybe it?s my bent sense of pathos and bathos, but I?ve found Nebraska?s safe haven law dilemma both incredibly heartbreaking and (darkly) humorous. The sadness is for both the parents and the children. The humor is reserved for the legislature that crafted this law with enormous Unintended Consequences...

Investigating Social Networks

Posted on November 03, 2008
Visit the King County Law Library blog, KCLL Klues, for a research guide on Investigating Social Networks.This is a logical companion guide to their other skip-tracing and public records guides, which you can find here and that I posted about here.

Justice Bedsworth Feels The Pain of Cops and Prosecutors (but the dog gets fed!)

Posted on November 03, 2008
Justice Bedsworth, of the California Court of Appeals, returns with his, not to be missed, November column in the Orange County Lawyer Magazine:?Is That a Kielbasa in Your Pocket? Time for year-end awards to be passed out. Here?s the first one?:??God, in Her wisdom, has seen to it that the Yankees still haven?t won a pennant in the 21st Century, so we know that there are some fronts on which the forces of evil and sloth have been reduced to a holding action...

Is Your Oregon License Plate behind Your Windshield (on the dashboard)?

Posted on October 31, 2008
If your answer is yes, you might want to read this case from the Oregon Court of Appeals, filed 10/29/08.You can also see a judicial exercise of statutory interpretation at work. What does it mean that a registration plate be displayed "on the front * * * of the vehicle"?And, the next time you complain when the law librarian says, in response to your legal question (ahem, your legal problem), ?IT DEPENDS,? you might understand why...

Chief Judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals receives the 2008 Distinguished Service Award

Posted on October 31, 2008
From the media release:?David V. Brewer, Chief Judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals, recently received the 2008 Distinguished Service Award, one of the highest awards presented by the National Center for State Courts (NCSC). The Distinguished Service Award is presented annually to a person who has made longstanding contributions to the improvement of the justice system and who has supported the mission of the National Center?...

Law of Unintended Consequences (or, beware of what you vote for)

Posted on October 30, 2008
I enjoyed this timely story in today?s Portland Tribune: OOPS! Portland?s good intentions often have unexpected results, by Peter Korn, the Portland Tribune, Oct 30, 2008Excerpt: ??Economists call it the Law of Unintended Consequences, otherwise known as the Law of You Never Know...

How do I find out if someone in Oregon or Washington is married?

Posted on October 30, 2008
You might think this is an easy question to answer. But it?s not!Oregon Vital Records needs to know in which county the license was issued. So, in Oregon, if you want to know if someone is married, you might need to check county by county.It?s no better in Washington State...

Section 1983 Litigation

Posted on October 30, 2008
Speaking of Washington State, visit the King County Law Library website if you want a good starting place for learning about Section 1983 litigation (i.e. 42 U.S.C. §1983), take a look at their Section 1983 Civil Right Litigation Research Guide.

Oregon Dogs: Therapy, Assistance, and Companion Dogs

Posted on October 29, 2008
Today?s print Oregonian story, The definition of service animals grows to include animals that provide companionship to their owners, by Andy Dworkin (The Oregonian, Tuesday October 28, 2008) reminded me that I hadn?t yet posted this blog-post I?ve been working on...

Free Online Legal Research Database: Public Library of Law (PLoS)

Posted on October 29, 2008
We love all the hoopla about Public Resource dot com and their commitment to making the law accessible to all, without cost (or too many bells and whistles we don?t always need).However, there is another legal research database that does almost the same thing, but seems quite happy to stay quietly under the radar:The PLoL is a portion of the Fastcase database, and is offered freely by their owners...

"State-by-State Time Off to Vote Law" Chart

Posted on October 28, 2008
Findlaw has a nifty State-by-State Time Off to Vote Law chart.(Thanks to Jim Calloway?s Law Practice Tips blog for the lead!)

More on Oregon Foreclosures

Posted on October 28, 2008
Add the following to my previous post on Foreclosure research.A USA Today story on Oct. 24, 2008, Programs are available to help struggling homeowners, by Anna Bahney and Barbara Hagenbaugh, tells of these national programs: Hope for Homeowners, Hope Now Alliance, Bank of America, and Indymac Federal Bank, and has web links to all...

State Court Associations Galore

Posted on October 28, 2008
Look at this list of state court and related associations. It takes a lot of expertise and networking to manage our courts. And this list doesn?t even include them all (e.g. Center for Legal and Court Technology), nor the state bar associations or the state, court, and county law librarian organizations that partner with them...

Turn Your Clocks BACK, November 2nd, 2008

Posted on October 27, 2008
From NASA: Back it up, Commander, Back it up!!(Can you go backwards or up or down in space? Or on earth, for that matter?)On Sunday, 2 a.m., November 2nd, 2008, the clocks are turned back to 1 a.m - Hurrah! (Or is it Fall Forward instead of Fall Backward :-P) See Time and Date, which asks and answers:?In which direction does the clock move in the fall?The clock moves ahead (thus, losing one hour) when DST starts, typically in the spring, and falls back one hour (thus, gaining one hour) when DST ends in the fall...

Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #10 (Article II, Suffrage and Elections, Sections 11-17)

Posted on October 27, 2008
Links to Previous Bites can be found here at, "Oregon Consitution in Small Bites: So Far"Today: Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #10Article II, Suffrage and Elections, Sections 11-17ARTICLE IISUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS11. When collector or holder of public moneys ineligible to office12...

Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Posts So Far

Posted on October 27, 2008
Previous Small Bites of the Oregon Constitution:Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #1 and Bite #2 (Bill of Rights, 1-6)Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #3 (Bill of Rights, 7-12)Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: #4 (Bill of Rights, 13-20)Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: #5 (Bill of Rights, 21-30)Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: #6 (Bill of Rights, 32-39)Oregon Constitution in Small Bites #7: Bill of Rights, 40-42)Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: #8 (Bill of Rights, 43-45)Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #9 (Article II, Suffrage and Elections, Sections 1-10)Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #10 (Article II, Suffrage and Elections, Sections 11-17)Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #11 (Article II, Sections, 18-24, Suffrage and Elections)

U.S. Constitution-Free Zones

Posted on October 27, 2008
I?ve been hearing about the Constitution-Free Zone of the United States but haven?t yet done any follow-up research, partly because I?m annoyed.Here is the map and here is the ?Fact Sheet.? What annoys me is that it is missing some facts I would like to see, in fact need to see and that it Creates Work for me when the authors don't include the facts...

Free 30-day Password to Fastcase (Oregonians only)

Posted on October 26, 2008
I have a few extra Fastcase pilot project passwords to give out. (The application is at our webpage ? at the bottom of the page, or here is the direct link.) You do not need to be an attorney to be eligible for this trial.Washington County (Oregon) residents (and litigants with cases in Washington County courts) get priority but if passwords remain, other counties' residents will be eligible, so send in your application, and tell me why you would like to participate...

CA County Law Library Wins Library of the Year Honor

Posted on October 26, 2008
GPO Library of the Year: San Bernardino County Law LibraryIt?s pretty special in my world (where public law libraries are constantly under threat of losing funding) for a county law library to win such a national award. Congratulations to Larry Meyer and his incredible staff at the San Bernardino County Law Library for winning this award...

An Actual Paperless Law Office

Posted on October 26, 2008
Many talk a lot about a paperless office, but few actually succeed in creating one. These two lawyers not only talk but teach the rest of us about the paperless law office: CLE seminar on Paperless Law Practice.See Ernie the Attorney?s 10/16/08 blog post about how this CLE came about, Upcoming CLE on Digital Workflow, and see his earlier post on paperless = mobile, which might make a lot of you say, ?aha! Now I get it!? (I almost forgot I already posted about it here! (See, isn?t a blog useful? :-))

Food Allergy Resources in Portland-Metro Area (and beyond)

Posted on October 26, 2008
The Oregonians? West Bureau ran a story by Dana Tierney in their Thursday, October 16th, 2008, print Washington County Weekly insert, ?Food allergy group is nothing to sneeze at.? There was an interesting local resource featured, as well as the usual national ones...

Oregon Supreme Court and Vehicle Insurance: redefines, inter alia, the word ?repair?

Posted on October 24, 2008
(inter alia)Today?s story in the Oregonian, ?High court backs pickup owner over insurer,? is more interesting than the headline might lead you to believe.The case it refers to is: Gonzales v. Farmers Insurance (S054486):Excerpt: ?? This is an action on an automobile insurance policy...

Oregon Foreclosure Legal Reference Questions

Posted on October 23, 2008
Legal Research Tip: When doing your research, remember, keep notes on who you talked to and when (even what time!), what was said, what website, book, or brochure you looked at, who you want to contact next, etc.And away we go:GENERAL INFORMATION ON FORECLOSURE:1) My previous blog postings on foreclosure here and here (with the sub-prime primer) or on developers/builders going under...

Mailed Oregon Election Ballots Require 59 Cents Postage!

Posted on October 22, 2008
You ballot is heavy and requires more than a 41 cent stamp!Here?s an excerpt from the Register-Guard story, One stamp isn?t enough Long ballot needs 59 cents of postage, Oct 21, 2008 09:12AM?Lane County elections chief Annette Newingham thinks voters shouldn?t have to put stamps on mail-in ballots in federal elections...

Check Your Oregon Voter Registration Online!

Posted on October 22, 2008
Ballots have been mailed. If you didn't get yours, check your registration or phone your county election office.Yes, you can check online to make sure you are registered to vote. Link to the Elections Division.(I last posted about this here.)

Oregon Building Codes Revisited: Fire, Mechanical, and More

Posted on October 18, 2008
Public Resource dot com has started putting various state building, fire, mechanical, etc. codes online, at their codes dot com site.Keep an eye on the site ? and on everything else they are doing at Public Resource dot org ? very exciting.(But, please, be sure to check with your own jurisdiction?s code enforcement staff...

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