Oregon Legal Research BlogBet you thought I forgot Bedsworth this month. I did! (It’s been some month, I tell you.) But here he is, in all his robed and wigged glory:
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Bedsworth vs. The (English) Horse He Rode In With
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Small Claims Court in Oregon: What Do You Want to Know?
Do you have any questions about filing a case in Small Claims Court in Oregon?
I’m helping (in a networking, researching, law librarian sort of way) an Oregon attorney write a book about Small Claims Court in Oregon, i.e. how to file, how to prepare, how to serve, etc.
One of my most important jobs is to give the lawyer/author the Public Librarian perspective.
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Oregon Pedestrian Rights Legal Guidebook
Read the legal guide book (156 pages!) “Oregon Pedestrian Rights: A Legal Guide for Persons on Foot,” from one of the lawyers who brought us these other guides, which I posted about here (including the bicyclist legal guide, Pedal Power) (and don’t forget about this bicycle manual from DMV).
Previous pedestrian posts here and here, on how not to die walking across the Morrison Bridge.
Thanks to Jack Bog’s Blog for the lead.
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Traffic” (by Tom Vanderbilt): An alternate title for the book might be “Idiots.”
Traffic, by Tom Vanderbilt: “…An alternate title for the book might be “Idiots” (from the NYT review of Traffic).
See also this recent news story:
Use turn signal? Why?: $75 TICKET: It’s an all-too-common attitude, and it can cost you, cops say,” Chicago Sun-Times (online), August 11, 2008, by Mary Wisniewski.
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Traffic Deaths: 40,000 and counting?
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Asset Searches in Dissolutions of Marriage (Oregon)
“Asset Searches in Dissolutions of Marriage,” by Ann Richards & R.T. Tavey, in the Oregon State Bar (OSB) Family Law Newsletter, June 2008, pp. 1-3.
(These useful newsletters from OSB Sections are not well-indexed so I try to highlight some of their articles when they land on my desk/top. You can contact your nearest law school or county law library (see sidebar for links) and ask about reading a copy.)
There is lots of information on the Internet about locating public records, but makes sure you know about the dangers of taking at face value everything you see on the Internet (or read in a book or a magazine or hear on the radio – shall I go on?). Always turn on your crap detectors (e.g. try this How to Evaluate Legal Web Sites guide from the excellent Maryland People’s Law Library website).
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Consumer Reports (Magazine) Free, Online and the Google Insights Service
I was looking at the Google Insights service (prompted by PI Buzz’s exploration of the service) and thought I’d run my [free, online] Online Consumer Reports “test” on it, i.e., just how many people do search for Consumer Reports via Google and how do they search for it?
The results were interesting to say the least. I limited my search to United States and the past 12 months, 9 months, and 30 days (all different results, all useful).
Three possible conclusions (of many others one could likely draw):
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Oregon Nov 2008 Election Ballot Measures (so far)
From the Salem Statesman Journal, we read “Measures assigned their numerical designations: A dozen items will appear on Nov. 4 ballot, state says,” by Peter Wong, August 2, 2008
Measure approved for the ballot to date include these:
MEASURE 54: Allows 18-year-olds to vote in school board elections, consistent with their eligibility to vote in state and federal elections. The minimum voting age for school board elections is 21, set by voters in a 1948 constitutional amendment. The voting age for state and federal elections was lowered to 18 in 1971.
MEASURE 55: Allows legislators to complete their elected terms in their original districts even if they are placed elsewhere through redistricting plans, which are drawn every 10 years after each census. The next plan is set for 2011, after the 2010 Census.
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Online Oregon Criminal Records Searches (re CriminalSearches dot com)
The Oregon Judicial Department has this official NOTICE ABOUT ONLINE CRIMINAL RECORDS SEARCHES:
“July 31, 2008
We have received many complaints since July 21 about inaccurate and outdated information on a new website called CriminalSearches.com, which offers to search for “criminal” records throughout the US for free.
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Washington State Legal Research Blog
Welcome the new KCLL Klues: Washington State Legal Research Blog: Tips and tricks for Legal Research in Washington State. This is the official blog of the King County Law Library and adds even more legal research information than we already find at their main website – wowsers!