Yes, you read that correctly; the 2007 Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) are NOT online, yet. Yes, we all are hoping it will be soon. (The 2008 ORS won’t be for even longer. I’ll blog soon about how laws are codified.)
When the ORS is online, it will be here, here, here.
In the meantime, you can probably find a print 2007 ORS at the public library (yeah!) and you can also look at the 2007 Oregon Advance Sheets (aka Session Law (look that up in the Legislative Glossary)).
It’s not enough for the Oregon House and Senate to pass a bill; the Governor needs to sign it.
Here is a link to the Governor’s legislative web page and to his Legislative Action in the 2008 Special Session web page.
(Note: Please don’t shout at the messenger. The Governor calls it a Special Session. Others, in the Legislature, call it a Supplemental Session.)
A lot of our attorneys practice animal law, from equine law to estate planning for pets. This also means they are animal lovers (no surprise to anyone here in the Portland metro area).
So, visit the Pet of the Day blog, which is supported by Oregonlive blogs and has posts from the Cat Adoption Team (CAT), Bonnie Hayes Small Animal Shelter, Multnomah County Animal Services, and the Oregon Humane Society.
Here is a link to their pet-key.
The law firm of Swanson, Thomas & Coon has developed a guide to Oregon Pedestrian Rights: A Legal Guide to Pedestrians on Foot
Recent statistics on pedestrian deaths and injury can be found in the Oregon Traffic Safety Performance Plan, Fiscal Year 2008, Public Version.
More on Oregon traffic, transportation, pedestrians, bicyclists and the law:
Who knew? 14 “other” ways to use RSS Feeds
Plus a few more if you read the comments. Wowsers.
Via iLibrarian.
Dennis Kennedy’s Feb 24th Links of the Week included a link to this:
The answer to the toughest interview question, “what’s your salary range?”
Law librarians get a variation on this interview question from database vendors: “How much are you willing to spend?” For some negotiation strategy advice on this subject, see “You Want What? How to Have Fun while Negotiating Contracts,” by Sarah Nichols (Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP) at 12 AALL Spectrum #4, CRIV Sheet, vol. 30, #2 (Feb 2008), pp. 10-12.
Article in the Oregonian, Busts Stick to Innocent Drivers, Feb 24th, by Susan Goldsmith:
“Lance Briggs was a month into his new job at the Oregon Lottery when a sheriff’s deputy stopped him for speeding, then arrested him for allegedly driving under the influence after a sobriety test raised suspicions.
Briggs wasn’t intoxicated, it turned out. He blew zero on a breath test at the Polk County jail, and a urine sample, sent out that night, came back negative for drugs. Officials never filed charges of any kind.
Everyone has a punctuation bugaboo; mine is the semicolon*. So I liked this post at Adams Drafting:
Excerpt: “Perhaps because they’re aware that I’ve had occasion to consider punctuation, some readers contacted me about the February 18 New York Times article about use of a semicolon in a New York City Transit subway placard….
And more generally, semicolons are creatures of nuance—less than a period, more than a comma. A contract isn’t the place for nuance.
But fans of semicolons shouldn’t despair: even with the limited use I put them to, my contracts still end up containing quite a few of them.” (Full post, here.)
*Though Victor Borge’s “Phonetic Punctuation” routine could make anyone laugh about punctuation.
This is worth spreading around (I got the link from Tom Mighell’s Internet Legal Research Weekly and here.)
14 Numbers link, from the CrankingWidgets:
“So, if your cell phone has no other numbers stored in its memory, make sure it has these numbers:
Do you listen to Oregon legislative hearings and other online recordings?
Take their Public Survey for Improving Legislative Recordings (link is also here).
“The Oregon Legislature is conducting a survey to determine ways to improve its recordings of floor sessions and committee hearings. Your responses will help us design a new recording system that will make it easier to access legislative content.”
The Oregon Legislature wants to hear from you, here or here.
Oregon Legal Research Blog