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Living Legally Sustain-ably (or sustain-fully) is about more than reducing our use of tangible resources. We need to pay equal attention to those intangible resources: truth, justice, equal opportunity, and legal health.

Today’s Oregonian article about a visit to Portland by Myron Orfield and an October 2009 article in the Oregon State Bar Bulletin by Barry Woods, “Advancing the new economy: Oregon lawyers embrace sustainability” nudged a buried thought, until I remembered (among other buried treasure) a June 2009 Oregon State Bar Bulletin article by Ritchie Eppink:

1) “A Case for public legal health: Are we missing something?”

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You can also find a searchable PDF copy of the 2008 Oregon AG’s Public Records and Meetings Manual at the Public Resource’s Bulk Resource archive, courtesy of Carl Malamud.

Previous OLR blog posts on this subject.

Thank you to Professor Bill Harbaugh for the lead and the link.

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RE: 2007 SB 10 in the Oregon Supreme Court (not in the ORS, but you can find the enrolled bill at the Oregon Legislature’s website).

I’m well overdue with my post about this case, but maybe I will be just in time if the Oregon Supreme Court hands down their decision soon.

1) The name of the case is: VanNatta v Oregon Government Ethics Commission (docket number S057570) and the decision will be posted at the Oregon Judicial Department website (also from here or here).

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Last Reminder from the OLR Blogger:

NIST: “Standard Time begins each year at 2:00 a.m. (local time) on the first Sunday of November. Move your clocks back one hour at the resumption of Standard Time….

In 2009, DST is from 2:00 a.m. (local time) on March 8th until 2:00 a.m. (local time) on November 1st….” (link)

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We get this question fairly regularly:

How can I get my relative to move out of my house? Help!

It’s not really nice, or even very useful, for us to remind you that you let them move in, that you should have had a lease even if it was your nearest and dearest, or that you have too big a heart and trust FAMILY too much.

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One of the toughest lessons on the law for non-attorneys is that The Law is not black and white and that searching for The Law, or The Answer, in the texts of statutes and constitutions is only the beginning of the research adventure. Analysis, persuasion, persistence, and luck must also be stirred into the mix.

As a colleague of mine always tells his students: “If you read only what is written in the statutes and the constitutions you will be absolutely wrong about what the law is.”

Here’s one case, among thousands, but perhaps it can serve as a useful example. I recommend you read the whole case – the excerpts below are only to whet your appetite (notice also the complete absence of a retelling of the facts – frustrating to those who love the law in part for its stories). (And we don’t yet know if there will be an appeal, so this may not be the final word from the Oregon Courts.)

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In case you hadn’t heard, the Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR) Bulletin (the monthly updates to the OAR), will be online only, starting January 2010.

The multi-volume Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR) itself will still be available in print.

Law and government documents librarians have been active for many years (especially the AALL Government Affairs office) on this issue of authenticity of government documents.

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Practice makes perfect?

Each legislative session we see new laws about towing. Add these to updated local towing ordinances and we could probably write book on Oregon towing laws!

We won’t though (aren’t you glad?), but can try to keep you updated, to a degree, if only to alert you to the fact that you should check both state and local laws on towing before deciding on your next course of action, that is, calling someone to complain, e.g. your newspaper, your legislators, city council members, the mayor, your lawyer, your favorite blogger, etc..

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I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who noticed this on the front page of the print Sunday Oregonian Metro section.

Coincidence is a fact of life, but it did give me reason to pause – and muse on names, class, lawyers (and those without lawyers), and clients. I don’t think anyone came out ahead in either of these two (and counting) legal skirmishes:

1) Steve Duin story: “Contrite? Davis Wright? Not Quite” (online version: Contrite? Davis Wright? Not quite, by Steve Duin, The Oregonian, October 24, 2009):

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