Shaggy Dog stories: You never know when you might need one of these, the Web’s First Shaggy Dog Archive. Aren’t shaggy dog stories up there with Aesop’s fables and Greek myths? Every well educated lawyer needs to have a well stocked store of them. Nu?
And then there is this: the Law Librarian and the FBI, A Shaggy Dog Tale: PARTS ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE and SIX
Bates v Gordon: The concealed handgun case the Oregonian reported on Nov 28th can be found at 201 Or App 629 (opinion dated 9/28/05) at the OJD website.
How Appealing: One blog that really needs to be checked regularly if you keep up with current legal events or with federal law is Howard Bashman’s How Appealing. This blog has its own style and you’ll need to decide for yourself how to keep up with it. I think of it as a new-age wire service and dip into it as needed periodically. If you’re in federal practice, you probably need to check it more regularly than that.
Oregon cases in the U.S. Supreme Court: The Statesman Journal online edition today has a story about 3 Oregon cases that are up before the U.S. Supreme Court: Gonzales v Oregon (assisted suicide #04-623), Oregon v Guzek (death penalty #04-928), and Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon (detained foreigners and the right to remain silent #04-10566).
More about Blog Titles: The Stark County Law Library blog also talks about this important subject and has links to GreatNexus for some blog-naming tips and links. Hmmm … Stark County Law Lib blog has great stuff and I check it regularly. Now why don’t *they* have a catchier title? One reason is that we public servants have a bit (!) less room to be creative with our job-related blogs than those who blog off-hours or who work for themselves. And then there are those law professors and Article III Groupies. Blog life would be a lot duller without them, wouldn’t it, eh.
What’s in a blog name?: Here’s an interesting blog for attorneys and law students. Everything from the “Hee-Bee Jee-Bee Test”, overcriminalization, and Tarasoff, to sociopathic clients and Judge Aldisert. Curious? But the blog’s name, “Crime and Federalism”, doesn’t tell you much about its content – dull, non-descriptive name, interesting blog.
OR Admin Law Research: Sometimes you just need to talk to someone. One place to begin your admin rules research is the Agency Rules Coordinator who specializes in the OAR sections you are researching.
Oregon Law Commission AG Ethics Appointments: The AG made his appointments Nov 3rd, to the OLC Government Ethics Work Group. Press release here. For additional information on the OLC, visit their site hosted at Willamette Law School.
Art on the Lam: If you see any of these in a museum, mansion, coffee shop or garage sale near you, phone the FBI.
TX Sup Ct Prop Tax and Schools Opinion: The Texas Supreme Court rules that use of local property tax to fund state’s public schools is unconstitutional. Opinion here.
Oregon Legal Research Blog