Oregon Legal Research BlogThe OSB Real Estate and Land Use Digest, vol. 30, no. 5, December 2008) discusses Ramsum v. Woldridge, 222 Or App 109, 192 P.3d 851 (2008):
“EDMONDS, P. J.
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Sailboats Can Be “Floating Homes” in Oregon
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More Stunning Peanut Recall News
More news today on the peanut recall front, from the Washington Post, in a rather stunning announcement:
Every Peanut Product From Ga. Plant Recalled: FDA: Toss Out Anything Made in 2007-08
By Lyndsey Layton, Washington Post Staff Writer, Thursday, January 29, 2009; Page A01
Excerpt: “In one of the largest food recalls in history, the Food and Drug Administration asked retailers, manufacturers and consumers yesterday to throw out every product made in the past two years from peanuts processed by a Georgia plant at the heart of a deadly nationwide outbreak of salmonella illness….
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The action came after federal officials discovered this month that the company, Peanut Corporation of America, knowingly shipped products contaminated with salmonella 12 times in 2007 and 2008, prompting a congresswoman to call yesterday for a criminal investigation by the Justice Department.
Michael Rogers of the FDA said the company violated good manufacturing practices by selling peanut products that had tested positive for salmonella bacteria in inspections commissioned by the firm. He said it turned over records of its inspections only after the FDA invoked special authority given to it by Congress in 2002 under laws to prevent bioterrorism….” (source)
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What Peanut Paste (butter) Recall?
I still run into people (parents! yikes!) who say,”what peanut paste (or butter) recall?” Duh.
** FDA website and here and here.
** CDC website and here and here.
Maybe we still need paper boys (and girls) running through the streets shouting out headlines: PEANUT PASTE RECALL! READ ALL ABOUT IT! DON’T EAT YOUR PEANUT PASTE!
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Metro (Oregon) Regional Illegal Dumping Patrol
For your inner-detective/sleuth … bet you didn’t know this could be a career – and maybe a darned interesting one for some!
Metro’s Regional Illegal Dumping Patrol
“Metro’s RID Patrol tackles the problem of illegal dumping in multiple ways: cleaning up dump sites, investigating evidence found at the dump sites, issuing citations to the guilty parties, investigating haulers that are illegally dumping and working with communities that need education and help to reduce dumping in their neighborhood.
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Obama’s “Difficult Tasks” and Lawyers Who Need Web Sites
As President Obama has said, “… there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.” (Inaugural Address, 1/20/09) …
My view (below) is from the perspective of a law librarian and of someone who hires lawyers, so think of me as a Super (and maybe very annoying) Client, but who also talks to hundreds of people who are trying to find the right lawyer:
Two things lawyers who want to make a living (as lawyers) should never say, but that I hear said every day:
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Does Your Car Repair Shop Give You an Estimate Before Making Repairs?
It should and you can always refuse to do business with them if they don’t (and put it in writing, please). But that’s too easy. There needs to be legislation requiring them to do this!
For a public policy wonk there are few things more fun than watching the Bills Go By. Visit the Oregon Legislature’s web pages to all sorts of bill searching options. Then you can track its path through Committees, Committee hearings, reports (e.g. these), floor votes, and maybe even a Governor’s signature.
Here’s a bill on requiring car repair estimates: 2009 HB 2268
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Popular Mechanics and the Law (worst case scenarios, limousines, and plane crashes)
I’m thinking about adding Popular Mechanics website to my list of places to visit weekly.
Interesting, and well written, stuff. Take a look:
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Libraries, Peace Processes, and Equal Access
If you know anything at all about Columbia, this article will be a fascinating counterpoint:
Libraries sow urban peace in Colombia, by Andrea Domínguez 14/01/2009
Excerpts:
“According to Prada, Bogotá libraries have become an important tool for social equality, they are open to all regardless of their social, economic or cultural background. They have become an important place for the city’s youths, not only for reading but as a place where they can carry out activities related to culture and leisure.
The libraries have also helped to restore the sense of public space and an empowermnet of their users. The libraries have helped better their surroundings, improving security in areas previously considered highly dangerous, and which are today very active and secure….
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One of the facts that allows us to reinforce the thesis that libraries have contributed to lowering levels of violence is the case of Medellin that launched a master plan for library services in 2004 and which resulted in 5 library-parks, all located in depressed areas of the city.
According to Jorge Melguizo, Medellín Secretary of Culture, the fact the city has currently a mere 9% of the violent deaths it had five years ago is certainly associated with the library-parks. “I am not saying that the libraries single-handedly lowered levels of violence, since there are a series of factors in the city that have generated a new climate, but these spaces for social inclusion, for gathering, and for opportunities have made a contribution….” (link to full article)
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Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #14 (Article IV, Legislative Department, Sections 2-6)
Links to Previous Bites can be found here at, “Oregon Consitution in Small Bites: So Far“
Today: Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #14 (Article IV, Legislative Department, Sections 2-6, copied from this version at the Oregon Legislature’s website)
ARTICLE IV
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
… (previous sections found in this Small Bite)
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WHO Surgical Checklist: This SOP May Save Lives and Lawsuits
The stories (e.g. here and here) we’ve been reading recently about the surgical checklist from the World Health Organization (their Safe Surgery Saves Lives Challenge) have some of us wondering why all surgical teams aren’t required to use them.
Even under the extreme emergency of “birds in engines,” the pilots of that plane that landed in the Hudson pulled out their own checklist.
It also has us wondering if we can’t just take the Checklist into the operating room with us and insist that the hospital staff use it and sign off on it (a big X marking the place where the knife is supposed to be inserted wouldn’t hurt either, so to speak).