Previous Bites:
Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: #1 and #2 (Bill of Rights, 1-6)
Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: #3 (Bill of Rights, 7-12)
Bite #4:
ARTICLE I
BILL OF RIGHTS
Who would have thought to use Oregon Small Claims Court to shut down a meth house? A very creative lawyer, that’s who!
See the story in the July 2008 issue of the Oregon State Bar (OSB) Bulletin, Oregon’s War on Methamphetamine,” by Janine Robbin.
Excerpts:
Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industry (BOLI): Child Labor Law: School-To-Work
History of child labor laws, here and here (for a start).
My previous posts on babysitting, leaving children alone, etc. can be linked to from here.
PI BUZZ brings us their Database of the Day: Insurance Providers Receivership Information
You have to laugh because PI Buzz’s Tamara hits it right on the head when she says:
“Before your eyes glaze over, your head goes into free-fall, allow me to point you to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) database of insurers who have been in receivership. This newly initiated project to get all state insurance commissioners to supply data on insurance providers licensed in their states, now contains historical data and will expand to include balance sheet information of active receiverships….”
For you non-lawyers out there, yes this sometimes happens. Lawyers really do learn useful things in law school and know things mere mortals don’t! (But not everything, so it doesn’t hurt to do your homework.)
From the OSB Litigation Section Newsletter (and they put it online – thank you!), July 2008 issue, this article by Caroline Harris Crowne & Julia E. Markley: “Federal Arbitration Act Preempts Oregon’s Legislature’s 2007 Amendement to Oregon Arbitration Act.”
“… In 2007, the Oregon legislature imposed a restriction on certain kinds of arbitration agreements that flies in the face of U.S. Supreme Court case law. ORS 36.620(5), part of Oregon’s version of the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act (“OUAA”), now requires that, in order for an arbitration agreement between an employer and employee to be valid, either the employer must give the employee two weeks’ notice before the first day of employment that an arbitration agreement is required as a condition of employment or the arbitration agreement must be entered into upon a “subsequent bona fide advancement” of the employee….” (full article from here, p. 4)
The OSB Litigation Section Newsletter, July 2008 issue, also has this article, “Oregon Condemnation Procedure Revisited,” on page 8, by Mark J. Fucile.
I found this post about blog bullying (inter alia) interesting, primarily because it addresses some tough issues that need to be discussed among bloggers, who are becoming better and better at their craft: A Kierkegaardian Leap of Faith in Social Media: Does a Critical Remark About Opinions Expressed By a Commenter or Blogger On Another Blog Constitute Bullying (posted 8/18/08 on the Law Librarian blog).
I am often asked by new (and potentially new) bloggers to talk about blogging and this is a useful blog post to have them read before (homework!) we have that Talking Seriously About Blogging meeting. Most of what I talk, and am asked, about during these meetings are those Blog Housekeeping issues (hosting, domains, design, layout, etc.).
But there are also Blog Ethics, Blog Etiquette, Blog Protocol, and related issues that are equally important. For the sake of brevity, and the What Were You Thinking?! factor that is sometimes forgotten, I will call these the Grown-up Blogger Issues, for those of us who blog seriously or simply with an eye to staying on the side of the angels.
Online Research Resources:
From Reference at Cedar Mill (thank you Liz!), we hear about this, “is it protected by copyright” tool, DigitalSlider.
Another great place to learn interesting copyright news, without being overwhelmed, is the LibraryLaw blog (thank you Mary!). From the Grateful Dead to Digital Promise Legislation .
Oregon Legal Research Blog