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Traffic Week at the Oregon Legal Research Blog

Posted on January 01, 2010
I start off the New Year (January 2010) on the right foot (or the 3rd wheel) with Traffic Week at the Oregon Legal Research blog.Stay tuned for posts on texting, roundabouts, turn signals, cows, pedestrians, bicyclists, traffic tickets, joggers with death wishes, auto insurance, and more...

Justice Bedsworth Pulled Up Short By Love Handles

Posted on January 01, 2010
Justice Bedsworth?s Criminal Waste of Space column (over at the OC Bar Association) starts off the New Year wondering what it all means ... at least what converter pumps and fat-nappers are all about:Fatheads: ?Beds is tilting at the windmills of fatuity again,? by Justice William W...

Google Gets Personal: But What About the Crumbum Who Used the Computer Before You Did?

Posted on December 31, 2009
There is an old joke about a nervous guy on an airplane and his seatmate who talks about how the plane won?t crash because it?s his lucky day. The nervous guy retorts, ?what does it matter how lucky you are if one of the other passengers is unlucky?? (There are other variations on this joke, so just bear with me here...

Standards of Review: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Posted on December 31, 2009
If you need access to this document before the 9th Circuit updates their website, read on:We had a question recently about the Ninth Circuit (U.S. Court of Appeals) "Standards of Review," but when the attorney and I went to the Ninth Circuit website, clicked on Attorneys, and then clicked on "Standards of Review," nothing happened...

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Text of Ballot Measure 66 and 67

Posted on December 31, 2009
The text of Measure 66 and Measure 67 (from the official 2010 Oregon Secretary of State Voter?s Pamphlet)More:1) Nov 13, 2009: Oregon Supreme Court decision on ballot title2) Nov 17, 2009: Oregon Secretary of State, Elections Division: Ballot Titles for 2010 January Special Election Measures: Measure 66 and Measure 673) Ballotpedia (though the election date noted, January 26, 2009, should say 2010)4) OPB?s Think Out Loud will have 2010 programs on both Ballot Measures...

County Jails to limit inmate personal mail to postcards only. (That?s More then 140 Twitter Characters, but ?.)

Posted on December 30, 2009
Lots of information and links in this OregonLive article:Jails to limit inmate mail to postcards only, by Bill Oram, The Oregonian, December 29, 2009Excerpt: ?? "The quality of the letters are so touching because they're looking to establish relationships with anyone who will listen to them," said Boghosian, the executive director of the New York-based National Lawyer's Guild, which publishes the Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook...

Roomies Behaving Badly: Roommate Agreements

Posted on December 30, 2009
The intranets, and agony aunt columns (e.g. Ask Amy), are filled with tales of roommate woe:My roommate won?t pay his share of the rent on time.Our roommate is driving us crazy - with cleanliness.My roommate never locks the front door.My roommate ?.My roommate ?...

Blog to TV Pilot? From $0 to $$150,000 to $$$

Posted on December 29, 2009
The Law Librarian Blog has a post about blogging as ?scholarship?, but the eye-opening news is at the end of the blog post. I?m not sure if I?m more astounded at a blogger (of SCOTUS Blog) spending (assuming this is correct) $150,000 on his blog (though perhaps I should be surprised at the paltry sum spent given the quality and substance of the blog) or am more tickled by a blogger and his blog being translated into a TV show, which will cost (and pay) way more than that $150,000, so I?m sure no one is complaining:"Blogging as Thinking Out Loud Sometimes"Excerpt: ??Or how does one turn blogging into a TV pilot? The Washingtonian is reporting that NBC is developing a TV series based on the life of SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein...

Pacific Northwest Paralegal CLE Seminar: Employment Law

Posted on December 29, 2009
Pacific Northwest Paralegal Association (follow the Seminars link) starts off their 2010 continuing legal education season of seminars with:"Workplace Investigations of Employment Issues," to be held Wednesday, January 20, 2010. The Speaker will be Carolyn Walker, a Partner at the law firm of Stoel Rives, LLP.

U.S. Courts of Appeals (Circuit Courts) Opinions Online

Posted on December 28, 2009
Not all U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals (or federal district or bankruptcy courts for that matter) make full (or almost full) runs of their opinions available at their websites. See, e.g. the blog post at Gallagher Law Library (University of Washington Law Schools): Circuit Courts Archiving Cites to Online Sources...

Bench Guide to the Oregon FAPA (Family Abuse Prevention Act)

Posted on December 28, 2009
A bench guide to FAPA (the Family Abuse Prevention Act):?A Benchguide for the Family abuse prevention act, Office of the State Court Administrator, c2006Revised and updated in 2006 / by the Honorable Maureen McKnight and the Honorable Merri Souther Wyatt, with the assistance of the FAPA Benchguide Revision Workgroup of the State Family Law Advisory Committee's Domestic Violence Subcommittee comprised of Robin Selig, Oregon Law Center; Ari Halpern, Legal Aid Services of Oregon; Camilla Thurmond, Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence; Bonnie Braeutigam Department of Human Services; and BeaLisa Sydlik, Oregon Judicial Department; Cheryl A...

Oregon Encyclopedia: Coin Machine Men to Votex I

Posted on December 28, 2009
It?s a lot of fun watching the Oregon Encyclopedia grow (and see their What?s New page). Browse topics such as the Coin Machine Men, the Death Penalty, the Votex I Music Festival, and Bobby the Wonder Dog.And, think about becoming a contributor if you have an Oregon History area of expertise.

HALT is now CLEAR: Legal Tyranny to Legal Empowerment

Posted on December 24, 2009
HALT is now CLEAR (new homepage), not to be confused with this CLEAR (dot com) OR THIS CLEAR (scientology) or any of these CLEARs.Center for Legal Empowerment, Accountability & Reform (CLEAR), formerly known as Help Abolish Legal Tyranny (HALT)Remember that: CLEAR(legal) dot org is the former HALT...

iS Big iBrother Watching Your iPhone?

Posted on December 24, 2009
You may be willing to give up security and confidentiality on your own behalf, but when you?re talking about your clients and other second and third parties, you have to do a little more research, and have a little more care.This was interesting:Law Firm Bans iPhone Due to Security Risks from Ride the Lightning:Excerpt: ??Though we felt like Scrooge, we had to advise him that there is no way for anyone but Apple to correct the security problems with the iPhone...

Why I (sometimes) Don?t Like the Term Social Media (with a side of Men With Pens)

Posted on December 23, 2009
Is it possible to visit iLibrarian and not find something useful for the online writer? Is it possible to visit Men With Pens and not learn something about -- social media (and of course laugh at the great domain name).I?m sure I?m not the only person who hears ?social media? and thinks online social life and personal life...

Google Me, Google Me: The Funny (and scary) World of Online Legal Research

Posted on December 23, 2009
Let?s say I wanted to find this case, Mayfield vs. United States (a December 10th, 2009, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit opinion). (And I might want to find the case so I can write a postscript to this Shaggy (Law Librarian) Dog Tale.)When I use Google Legal Scholar, specifying federal court and 2009, and the search I get nothing...

Business Filings Database Links Updated

Posted on December 23, 2009
Do you need quick links to other states? business filings databases?Kathy Biehl?s ?Research RoundUp: Business Filings Databases? was updated at LLRX on December 5, 2009.You will find lots of other legal research tools at LLRX, including, but not limited to their LLRX Court Rules, Forms and Dockets database, Legal Research, and Librarian resources.

Free (download) Copy of ?Suicide the Forever Decision?

Posted on December 22, 2009
1) From the QPR Institute, a free download of:"Suicide the Forever Decision, For those Thinking about Suicide and for Those who Know, Love and Counsel Them," by Paul Quinnett, Ph.D(You will need WinZip (a free WinZip link is provided) to download or Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the book online...

Dog and Bicycle Show: Dog Law, Dog Bites, and Loose Dogs

Posted on December 21, 2009
From Oregon Laws, I saw this: Who Let the Dogs Out, by Ray Thomas, which shows you why it may behoove you to talk to a lawyer or do some extremely thorough legal research when bicycles and dogs intertwine.Excerpt:"... There are a number of widely held but mistaken beliefs about loose dogs...

Oregon Notary Law Updates

Posted on December 21, 2009
Oregon Law Practice Management blog has a post that describes the latest changes to Oregon?s Notary Public laws.The Oregon Secretary of State?s Notary Services webpage has lots of other information about becoming a Notary and about the notarization process, e...

Oregon DUII: Constitutional Right Not to Give a Blood Sample?

Posted on December 18, 2009
1) From Salem?s Statesman Journal:Oregon's high court explores the limits of consent, State's top lawyers argue case that could alter drunken-driving enforcement, by Peter Wong, Statesman Journal, December 17, 2009:Excerpt: ??... The arguments by two of the state's top lawyers were heard by the Oregon Supreme Court, which has before it a Sept...

Free Search: Online Law Reviews and Law Journals

Posted on December 17, 2009
From the Law Librarian Blog:ABA Launches Law Reviews, Law Journals and Document Repositories Search Engine:"The ABA's Legal Technology Resource Center has launched a free search engine for researching the free full-text of over 300 online law reviews and law journals, as well as document repositories ...

Oregon DUII: Constitutional Right Not to Give a Blood Sample?

Posted on December 17, 2009
From Salem?s Statesman Journal:Oregon's high court explores the limits of consent, State's top lawyers argue case that could alter drunken-driving enforcement, by Peter Wong, Statesman Journal, December 17, 2009:Excerpt: ??... The arguments by two of the state's top lawyers were heard by the Oregon Supreme Court, which has before it a Sept...

Oregon Trial Attorney Resources: Law Practice, Statutes of Limitations, and More

Posted on December 17, 2009
Jerry Cunningham at his info-packed Live Journal Oregon Law website linked to this Oregon attorney website: Oregon Trial Attorney Resources, from attorneys Richard J. Vangelisti and Scott F. Kocher. Their website has a lot of buried treasure, especially in the articles they generously post for our reading pleasure (with brief annotations no less - a legal researcher's dream)...

Oregon Supreme Court: ORS 162.325: Hindrance of Prosecution and Juvenile Proceedings

Posted on December 16, 2009
The OJD December 10, 2009, Media Release gives a summary of this case (other Media Releases).Read the full case:State of Oregon v. Roy Lee McCullough, Jr. (SC S056910) (decided December 10, 2009)?This case involves the construction of the statute that defines the crime of hindering prosecution ?...

Oregon Law Practice Management Blog

Posted on December 15, 2009
Once upon a time there weren?t that many Oregon lawyer blogs, but they are hitting their stride now. Here?s another one I came across recently: Oregon Law Practice Management

Oregon Dislocated (Laid Off) Workers and WARN Notices

Posted on December 15, 2009
Information on Oregon Dislocated Workers and WARN Notices is buried at the Oregon Department of Colleges and Workforce Development website.The State Board of Education and the Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development governs community college education, but they are also home to the:Dislocated Workers Unit: (800) 282-6514, where you will find info about WARN notice requirements: Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification Act (WARN)And website info for workers:1) Out of Work due to a layoff or Business Closure?2) Aware of a possible or scheduled workforce reduction...

Oregon Babysitters and other Domestic Workers and the Law (BOLI)

Posted on December 14, 2009
An addition to previous OLR blog posts on babysitting:1) ?If a babysitter provides child care in a private home on a regular basis while the parent(s) work, is the payment of minimum wage and overtime required??2) "Is it necessary to pay minimum wage and overtime if a babysitter is hired on a "casual basis," for example, when parents go out for the evening?"See this BOLI FAQ for answers to these questions...

Oregon Department of Justice: Worst Charities List

Posted on December 11, 2009
?Tis the season to be giving, so give wisely:1) Attorney General's Tips for Charitable Giving2) Oregon Attorney General Announces Oregon's 20 Worst Charities?? Currently, there are nearly 16,000 charities registered with the Oregon Department of Justice, and many of them are actively seeking donations...

Oregon Paralegal (and Legal Research) Website

Posted on December 11, 2009
The Portland-metro area has quite a few paralegal programs and I recently heard about this Live Journal website (Cunninghamppc), set up by an instructor (Jerry Cunningham) at Pioneer Pacific College.The website is filled with all the Q & A that a paralegal (and the rest of us, too) could think about asking, from jobs, to drafting, to legal terminology, and much more...

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