FTC and Early Supreme Court Decision Citation Table: Two links of note from yesterday’s (11/15/06) beSpacific (and there are always links of note at beSpacific), 1) FTC now has online cases back to 1969 and a librarian at the U.S. Supreme Court has compiled a table of decision dates for early U.S. Supreme Court decisions. She gathered the information from handwritten Engrossed Minutes, available at the National Archives (and on microfilm) – a heroic task indeed.
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More Oregon Condo Law: Today’s (Wed, 11/15/06) Oregonian has a front page story by Dylan Rivera on tax breaks for condo builders and owners. An Oregon case and statute are mentioned, but not cited to (this is not a fatal flaw as the reporter does provide just enough information to locate the supporting documents – but don’t get me started on newspaper reporters who write about the law). The Oregon Tax Court case is North Harbour Corp vs. Department of Revenue, 16 OTR 91 (2002) and the statute is ORS 307.330.
Condo Law and the Dance of Bloggers:
See more Condo Law Resources over at Shlep for more (thank you David!).
The Dance of Bloggers: Yes, as you’ve noticed, Bloggers do cite to one another, which is a good thing. It’s oddly efficient (or at least it seems that way to me) and keeps us connected, unless we start citing to each other exclusively – but I suspect there’s small likelihood of that happening. Speaking of which (so you can see how *my* brain works!), I recently gave to a young lawyer my “don’t let someone else (meaning Westlaw and Lexis in that instance) do your research for you” talk (well, lecture really :-). You need to dig in to the research, when it matters, from different angles, and not just let the digests or the databases do it for you, nor other people, though of course you use all these tools – just don’t use only one of them. There was a wonderful Stanford Law Review article written years ago by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, “Why do we tell the same stories? Law reform, critical librarianship, and the triple helix dilemma,” (42 Stanford Law Rev 207 (1989). It’s a lot longer than my lecture on the “who’s doing your research for you,” but much more interesting and provocative.
Employment Law: I don’t know if it’s the season, but we’ve been getting a lot of employment law questions lately – or at least more than usual. I was looking at the BOLI site and thought to remind you to look there too. There is an order form for the Wage and Hour Laws Handbook, information about the December conference, and more.
Oregon Administrative Law Tips for Pro Se Litigants and Attorneys: The current (Fall 2006) issue of the OSB Administrative Law Newsletter has an article entitled, “Practitioners Beware!” by Ann Fisher, Chair of the Administrative Law Section. Among other useful tips, the article refers to this web site, “Representing Yourself,” from the Oregon Office of Administrative Hearings.
Dog Law: KATU has a story, here, about dog laws in Oregon, and about Clackamas County in particular.
Law of Irresistible Provocation: Gardens and the Law: The Oregonian’s Dulcy Mahar, a gardening friend to all, lays down the law. She examines the Law of Ineffectual Regret, the Law of Perverse Exceptions, the Law of Roguish Germination, and many more. Her column, titled, “Can I Get a Witness,” can be found in the November 9th, Home & Gardens section of the Oregonian. I’m not much of a gardener, but I do try, and Dulcy always manages to make me feel better about my hopeless and hapless efforts.
Oregon Condo and Homeowner Associations: There’s not much written about CC&Rs, homeowner boards, etc. in Oregon, but there are a few sources of information, namely, the Community Associations Institute (CAI), CAI Oregon Chapter, and a few other sites, here and here, here, and an assortment of books (check at your local public and law libraries). With all the new condos arriving in Oregon these past few years, it won’t be long before someone writes the Condo Law in Oregon book – at least we hope it won’t be long, but we’ll still need these other sources.
And a recent OSB CLE has an excellent section on establishing and operating homeowners’ associations, in “What you need to know: basic skills for real estate and land use practice,” a CLE program held October 27, 2006, in Portland.
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HeinOnline, Free, Remote Access: Don’t forget that if you live in Washington County (Oregon, that is) or one of the neighboring counties with reciprocal public library borrowing privileges, you have remote, and free, access to HeinOnline, a specialized legal database. You need a library card from Washington County (WCCLS). You can get a Washington County public library card if you ….
“… live in Multnomah, Clackamas, or Hood River counties in Oregon, or reside in the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District or the City of Camas in Washington, may obtain a WCCLS library card without paying a non-resident fee. And Washington County residents, in turn, are eligible to obtain library cards without fee at any of the public libraries in the systems listed above.” (Instructions on getting a card from WCCLS are here.)
Once you have your library card account, click on WCCLS and follow the Government/Law link to HeinOnline.
Five Stages of Book-Theft Grief
For bibliophiles, the loss of a book is a source of much sadness (though in the scheme of all things that could possibly be lost in a lifetime, not so much):
First there is denial: “What do you mean it’s silly to look for the book in the sock drawer? I know it’s here somewhere!”