From NASA: Back it up, Commander, Back it up!!
(Can you go backwards or up or down in space? Or on earth, for that matter?)
On Sunday, 2 a.m., November 2nd, 2008, the clocks are turned back to 1 a.m – Hurrah! (Or is it Fall Forward instead of Fall Backward 😛) See Time and Date, which asks and answers:
Links to Previous Bites can be found here at, “Oregon Consitution in Small Bites: So Far“
Today: Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #10
Article II, Suffrage and Elections, Sections 11-17
ARTICLE II
SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS
11. When collector or holder of public moneys ineligible to office
12. Temporary appointments to office
13. Privileges of electors
14. Time of holding elections and assuming duties of office
14a. Time of holding elections in incorporated cities and towns
15. Method of voting in legislature
16. Election by plurality; proportional representation
17. Place of voting
I’ve been hearing about the Constitution-Free Zone of the United States but haven’t yet done any follow-up research, partly because I’m annoyed.
Here is the map and here is the “Fact Sheet.” What annoys me is that it is missing some facts I would like to see, in fact need to see and that it Creates Work for me when the authors don’t include the facts. (My mother always said, “don’t make work,” which was very clever of her. We could create whatever mayhem we wanted to as kids, but it was (mostly) ok as long as we cleaned up the mess and didn’t Make Work (for her or my dad). We got pretty good at cleaning up our own messes too, which has served us well in life 🙂
Lawyers and law librarians need, really need, cites to authority, whether or not the article (or claim in question) is likely to survive a “fact” check. E.g. when the “Fact Sheet” says, ‘The border, however, has always been an exception. There, the longstanding view is that the normal rules do not apply. For example the authorities do not need a warrant or probable cause to conduct a “routine search”,’ most law librarians (me!) would ask, “where’s the authority for that statement, what laws, what statutes, what cases?,” etc. Who and what says it is an exception? What is this “longstanding view?” Which “authorities” don’t need a warrant? The answers may be buried at this website, but they should be in plain view.
I have a few extra Fastcase pilot project passwords to give out. (The application is at our webpage – at the bottom of the page, or here is the direct link.) You do not need to be an attorney to be eligible for this trial.
Washington County (Oregon) residents (and litigants with cases in Washington County courts) get priority but if passwords remain, other counties’ residents will be eligible, so send in your application, and tell me why you would like to participate. If I get a lot of applications, your database searching skills will be considered in determining eligibility, but curiosity and aptitude will be also.
This trial is NOT for the novice. I do NO hand-holding. The two of us who work in the Washington County Law Library serve a county with over 500,000 people: I do NOT offer Fastcase training for this pilot project. You will need to be comfortable with their excellent online tutorials and their telephone and email help services. (This level of (non) service on my part is intentional and part of the trial. Among other things, I want to know how easy it was for you to use this database.)
GPO Library of the Year: San Bernardino County Law Library
It’s pretty special in my world (where public law libraries are constantly under threat of losing funding) for a county law library to win such a national award. Congratulations to Larry Meyer and his incredible staff at the San Bernardino County Law Library for winning this award. In addition to their usual excellent public law library services (and they have rescued me on more than one occasion when on the prowl for elusive CA docs), they are also a Federal Government Depository Library (and I know how much work that is, former gov docs law librarian that I am).
Many talk a lot about a paperless office, but few actually succeed in creating one. These two lawyers not only talk but teach the rest of us about the paperless law office: CLE seminar on Paperless Law Practice.
See Ernie the Attorney’s 10/16/08 blog post about how this CLE came about, Upcoming CLE on Digital Workflow, and see his earlier post on paperless = mobile, which might make a lot of you say, “aha! Now I get it!” (I almost forgot I already posted about it here! (See, isn’t a blog useful? :-))
The Oregonians’ West Bureau ran a story by Dana Tierney in their Thursday, October 16th, 2008, print Washington County Weekly insert, “Food allergy group is nothing to sneeze at.” There was an interesting local resource featured, as well as the usual national ones. (Newspaper handy-dandy little text boxes don’t always appear, or aren’t easy to find, in the online editions of the newspaper.)
The Oregon Food Allergy Group (this is a Yahoo Group):
“This group was created to provide food allergy support, education, and advocacy to those living in the greater Portland area and Willamette Valley.We invite you to join in our online discussion and join in our monthly support meetings. At present, Portland meetings are held the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7:30pm. Salem meetings are held the 2nd Sunday of each month at 2pm. Our calendar and postings list food allergy related events and meetings in Portland and Salem area.”
Today’s story in the Oregonian, “High court backs pickup owner over insurer,” is more interesting than the headline might lead you to believe.
The case it refers to is: Gonzales v. Farmers Insurance (S054486):
Legal Research Tip: When doing your research, remember, keep notes on who you talked to and when (even what time!), what was said, what website, book, or brochure you looked at, who you want to contact next, etc.
GENERAL INFORMATION ON FORECLOSURE:
UPDATE: Read Kama’s Comment below: NOT ALL of us have really heavy election ballots requiring extra postage!
You ballot is heavy and MAY require more than a 41 cent stamp!
Here’s an excerpt from the Register-Guard story, One stamp isn’t enough Long ballot needs 59 cents of postage, Oct 21, 2008 09:12AM
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