LLRX dot com has a December 2008 article that may help you disentangle the settlement agreement: A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries and the Google Library Settlement
Did you know that Mensa has a Constitution (linked to from their Other Resources page)?
I wonder if Densa does.
Have you seen this Moving toward a 21st Century Right to Know Agenda from OMB Watch (Recommendations to President-elect Obama and Congress)?
See also the professor who Commented on my post, Oregon Public Records Law Disclosure and Email: about how the DOJ website can be less than helpful, though I am optimistic that 2009 will bring improvements. The Commenter’s link is to this Oregon public records search tool: OpenUpOregon.
The Oregon State Bar (OSB) Information and Referral Service can refer you to an attorney who will handle your case OR they can refer you to a coach. The OSB is exploring more unbundled (aka limited scope) legal assistance options. In the meantime, you can phone them and ask for an attorney to help you with:
* Small Claims Coaching
* Pro Se Coaching
* Document Review
(I previously posted about unbundling, limited scope legal assistance, and lawyers fees here.)
Information and phone numbers from the DEQ News Release:
Resolve to Opt out of Phone Books in 2009
Excerpt from news release:
1) The Oregon Constitution has been wikified, but not just here (or the Ballotpedia version or this Indopedia version) but also by the good people at WikiProject Oregon who are wikifiing the Oregon Constitution, creating a Wikisource edition.
2) How to Find the Most Current Additions to the Oregon Constitution:
a) Given our rather interesting (you can’t make me use those other adjectives that spring to mind) system of amending the Oregon Constitution, I thought a few remarks on finding the most current version of the Oregon Constitution might be in order:
b) The version at the Oregon Legislature’s website does not now (as of this date) include changes to the Constitution made in Special Sessions. For example, as of today, the Oregon Legislature’s Constitution is dated 2007. However … there were changes in the 2008 Special Session.
One doesn’t think of Clackamas County, Oregon as being on the cutting edge, but sometimes ….
1) Four-day work week: A lot of the country is watching how Clackamas County’s one-year experiment with a four-day work week fares. For some (e.g. commuters), it’s a winner, but not for all:
Clackamas County government’s four-day workweek draws protests, by Peter Zuckerman, The Oregonian, Thursday December 25, 2008:
An interesting (but not earth shattering) case from Australia: the court (Master Harper) allowed a mortgage lender to serve the homeowners – at their Facebook page.
Find stories on the web, using these search words (or others of your choosing): australia court service mortgage facebook Canberra
Make sure you read at least a few stories out of Australia, not just the U.S. papers reporting the story. E.g.:
My previous post, Ayyoub, Clackamas County (Oregon) Blogging Case, and SCRIBD, did not identify the documents that I uploaded to SCRIBD about this case. They are:
1) Judge Redman, Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge, Pro Tem September 30, 2008, decision
2) Order Denying Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel
3) Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel Production of Documents from Webhosts
4) Third-party The Portland Mercury’s Opposition to Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel
5) Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel
6) Civil Subpoena Duces Tecum
Re: 2007 ORS 44.510 et seq.
Another reason to read Bruce Schneier on Security – the (often) dark humor of the people who Comment on his blog. See, for example, this post Food in Defense of a Crime and the Comments. (The Comment I quote in the title field was posted at 7:44 on 12/22/08.)
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