There are many new federal government websites (and some that appear to be official government websites but are not, though they can be very useful too – just be aware of the difference). Here are some U.S. government websites I’ve visited recently:
1) U.S.A. dot gov: the red, white, and blue of government websites
2) Data dot gov: for the statistician within
The Oregon Supreme Court case that limited mandatory measure 11 sentences and that garnered a lot of headlines and commentary in September, was:
STATE OF OREGON v. RODRIGUEZ / BUCK (SC S055720), filed September 24, 2009:
The decisions of the Court of Appeals are affirmed in part and reversed in part. The judgments of the circuit courts are affirmed.
The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program fall trainings are co-sponsored by the Veterans Law Section of the Federal Bar Association and supporting law firms. The trainings will be in Portland OR, Salt Lake City UT, Phoenix, AZ, and Washington, DC.
(The Portland, Oregon, training will be on Monday, October 26, 2009, at Perkins Coie LLP.)
There is specific information about these daylong trainings at the Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program website.
Is the engagement ring yours, mine, ours, or theirs (e.g. creditors or charities)?
This post is for those who want or need to resolve the Engagement Ring Dispute by delving into the Law (mostly Oregon), which, given what I’ve unearthed, isn’t that far from simply asking oneself, “What would Miss Manners (or Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, or even George Mitchell) Do?”
Warning: Do not expect An Answer, at least not a simple one. But you may find your own answer in all of this (or at least another view of the “marriage catastrophe” a la Zorba).
While you are channeling Your Inner Sherlock Holmes, you can also engage your inner Consumer Self-Help resourcefulness.
The Oregonian’s Complaint Desk had an excellent story of how you can resolve a consumer mystery and find your missing mo-ped, by following the trail of a missing-in-action company, aptly named Knuckle Head (but still nice guys and not out to harm anyone – librarians love happy endings!).
A bit of online sleuthing brings mo-ped reunion, from the Sunday Oregonian (print) and online, September 20, 2009.
Unshelved Comic Strip (published Sunday, September 27, 2009) features the book “Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing and Ethical Guidelines, 12th edition.”
Don’t you love it when you learn from comic book? (And, how about a comic book on copyright law, which I blogged about here.)
Records flap has ironic twist: Activists publish the state’s public records manual on the Internet over the Justice Department’s objections, by David Steves, The Register-Guard, appeared in print: Wednesday, Sep 23, 2009.
Excerpt: “Right-to-know advocates are defying Oregon’s attorney general by putting a restricted government document on the Web for everyone to see.
But the document at the center of this dispute isn’t a sensitive record such as a list of Oregonians’ Social Security numbers or names of concealed-handgun-permit holders.
Just a reminder that the 2009 Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) will not be available in print or online until 2010.
But you can still read the 2009 Oregon laws enacted by the Legislature and the Governor.
(Note: Oregon “Effective Date of Legislation”: “In accordance with ORS 171.022, “Except as otherwise provided in the Act, an Act of the Legislative Assembly takes effect on January 1 of the year after passage of the Act.”)
It’s been a busy season for people (and librarians) wanting to find missing documents, from policies and certificates last seen 40 years ago to ones misplaced last month, from trusts, insurance policies, case files, and beyond.
So, here are some important tips:
1) Don’t panic, not now, and not as you keep crossing possibilities off your list.
I recently gathered information about where to find public video-conferencing sites around the state, for use by government and non-profit organizations. I’ve posted my list at the Washington County (Oregon) Law Library website.
Look for the link to the guide under What’s New or under Other, at the bottom of the Legal Research Guides webpage.
Oregon Legal Research Blog