Oregon Legal Research BlogSchool Zone Speed Law: The school zone speed law changes July 1st. Story in the Salem Statesman Journal, Jun 30th dateline, here.
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Oregon Sex Offender Web Site: The web site is now open, here. For a complete list of all sex offenders registered in Oregon, you will need to phone the Oregon State Police, 503-378-3725, ext. 4429.
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Measure 37 Rights Transferable?: Dave Hunnicutt has an article (posted 6/29/06) in the OregonCatalyst titled, “Measure 37 Rights Are Fully Transferable.”
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Sex offender registry, Recycling, Wireless Trespass, Bench Trial Acquitals, Harry Potter and the Law:
It’s a busy day in my OLR Blog world:
1) State Police (sex offender registry): The Oregonian reports today (6/29) that the Oregon State Police will launch on Friday a (not “the”) sex offender whereabouts web site. There isn’t yet anything on their web site, but stay tuned.
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Laptops and Employment Law: Some employers are holding employees responsible for portable device data breaches. Will you be defending these employees in the near future? See the WSJ story, which I linked to from a June 27th beSpacific posting.
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Oregon Land Use Survey: Participate in the Governer’s “Big Look,” the Oregon Task Force on Land Use Planning survey: “The Task Force is conducting an evaluation of Oregon’s present land use planning program. One of the Task Force’s first steps is to survey Oregonians to identify major land use issues that the Task Force should study. This survey is designed to help the Task Force identify issues of importance to Oregonians.”
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Family Law with a Side of Social Security: The latest OSB Family Law section newsletter (June 2006) has a useful summary of the Social Security benefits system. Their newsletter doesn’t seem to be online, but just about any Oregon family law attorney or law library will have a copy.
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Animal Law: Even in my small law library, we’ve been fielding more and more questions about animal law. So far there is only one OSB 2002 CLE on Animal Law, but another popular resource is Lewis & Clark’s Animal Law Review. The new issue is out and BolyBlogs features it in their June 20th post.
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HOT TOPIC: Local Oregon lawyers keep commenting in their blogs on their hot offices. (The Law Library is nice and cool 🙂 For another, and slightly more cheerful view of our unusual heat wave, visit Jack Bog’s Blog. For me, it’s just a great excuse to eat more ice cream.
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MS Word Headers and Footers: There is a Rule that says, “It will take you longer to format a document than it will take you to write it.” It is a counter-intuitive rule, not unlike the Rule that says, “The shorter the footnote, the longer it will take to research the original documentation,” that we all faced for the first time in law school (except for history majors who probably learned it as undergraduates). I Heart Tech comes to the rescue once again for those of us who pine for our lost WordPerfect (and Pine for that matter – at least for those of us who lived and loved in a DOS world long ago). See the June 26th post at I Heart Tech for a pithy lesson on MS Word Headers and Footers. Other places will attempt the same, here, and here.