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The Oregonian’s Business section of the daily print paper has had such good consumer law and small business stories and information lately that I’m wondering why they call it Business, rather than Law or Working or Buying & Selling. (I’m sure one of their readers or reporters could come up with something better – naming newspaper sections is clearly not my bailiwick.)

That said, be sure to look at their consumer info, especially, but not only, the Complaint Desk. I cut out some of the best Oregon consumer news from local newspapers and more than one of my library patrons has benefited from that old-fashioned “vertical file” of articles. Some samples from the Complaint Desk:

1) Get past the operator; find real people

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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Town Hall / Conference on DRM

Given how complex EULAs are (to the tune of whatever EULA wants, EULA gets), we don’t get enough questions about them from the public. (Librarians are always agonzing over them, law abiding souls that we are.)

Also, Ars Technica has this interesting post about real-people reactions to DRM:

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I don’t generally put Works in Progress up on this blog, but I get questions about these publications and have been working on the following list in my spare time. But it’s slow going – spare time is a rare gift. It may be useful even in its draft form:

OSB Section Newsletters (periodic): This is only a partial list. New ones will be added over time:

1) Administrative Law section (some newsletters are free online)

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Visit the Oregon Nonprofit Leaders Conference website for more information. And look at their sponsors and their resource lists too.

Meet with grant makers and grant writers, learn about managing staff and finances, and meet with others who have the same questions you do.

Nonprofits in Oregon have excellent resources for learning how to run effective and fiscally sound nonprofit organizations. Visit the TACS website.

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This is an interesting story:

Law Professors Seek Injunction over ‘Sham’ Treatise Supplement, by Shannon P. Duffy, The Legal Intelligencer, April 16, 2009.

Excerpt: “An ugly dispute has erupted between West Publishing and two law professors who claim they were falsely identified as the authors of an annual supplement to a treatise on Pennsylvania criminal law even though they had nothing to do with writing it.

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PI Buzz has a post, with Comments, about a Mexican court records database: Mexico Court Record Index Online.

Finding other countries’ court records databases doesn’t appear to be that difficult in a Google World, however, you should always try and talk to people who use those databases professionally to find out the pitfalls, the shortcomings, the strengths, and the alternatives. Private investigators and librarians who specialized in public and criminal records searching are excellent resources for database evaluations.

(PI Buzz also has a series of articles about Sunshine Week and government transparency.)

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An Oregon county law library colleague found the “pig” case we were looking for (previous pig post), except it turns out to be cows, not pigs – yoinks!

(In everyone’s defense, the students thought they were looking for a case about foreseeability or proximate cause, not res ipsa loquitur – and a pig and a gate and The Law – or so their instructors told them.)

From my colleague: “Perhaps we are seeking the wrong barnyard animal? There is a similar Tillamook County case involving a cow and an open gate: Watzig v Tobin, 292 Or 645 (1982) 50 Or App 539 (1981).”

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During a recent search for an old Oregon case* (at least we think it is an Oregon case – and even that it is old may be debatable), a colleague sent me a link to this news story about some feral pig legislation working its way through the Oregon Legislature: HB 2221 (PDF or HTML):

Man vs. pig like Ahab vs. Moby Dick, by MARK FREEMAN, Medford Mail Tribune, April 11, 2009:

Excerpt: “POWERS, Ore. — There’s a big pig rooting its way around Jody Cyr’s 400 acres of southern Coos County rangeland, and Cyr has spent the better part of the past three years doing his best to kill him.

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People seeking to divorce often don’t realize how entwined their lives have become, with each other and with the law. It’s hard enough to deal with finances (and the dreaded QDRO) and “telling the children,” but what do you do when the benefited children get their own divorces, and the will doesn’t specify what share, if any, the ex-spouse gets?

A recent article in the April 2009 issue of the OSB Estate Planning and Administration Section newsletter (previous issues of the newsletter are free online) addresses some of these issues and looks at some recent Oregon cases:

“How to Avoid Unintended Consequences of Estate Planning in Dissolution Court,” by Lisa Bertalan and Melissa Lande.

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A recent bill in the Oregon Legislature, 2009 HB 3274 (HTML or PDF), and a question from a patron, started me thinking about what my research strategy might look like if I had to draft legislation on this subject or if I had to argue for or against taxing marijuana sales (medical marijuana or other uses, if any).

(There was also this recent New York Times story: Struggling States Look to Unorthodox Taxes, by Jesse McKinley, February 28, 2009.)

And, I attended an interesting program recently on evidence-based research (origins in evidence-based medicine), which gave me even more ideas on sources one would need to consult to write the definitive guide to marijuana research, or even just marijuana taxation.

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