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Please note corrected effective date for this law – and thank you to the lawyers who alerted me to this!

The Oregon Small Claims Court jurisdictional limit has been raised to $10,000.

HB 2710 was signed by the Governor on June 30, 2011.  (Chapter 595, (2011 Laws): Some parts effective date July 1, 2011; the Small Claims Court amendments are effective October 1, 2011.)
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But when you’re in the early stages of research, or just curious, try these websites:
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Forbes dot com brings us this story:
More scam and other consumer protection information from the:
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The Uniform Law Commission (ULC) recently approved the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act. Find links to the latest UELMA draft and other documents and more at the June 11, 2011, Legal Informatics blog post: Uniform Electronic Material Act Approved by ULC.
For more about official, authenticated laws, follow the links at the June 11, 2011, AACPLL blog post, National inventory of primary legal materials, including a link to the seminal AALL State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources and updates.
Law librarians, lawyers, legislators, and others have been working on this problem for a very long time.  The problem: most digital (including online) statutes and other legal research materials are not official, authenticated, and are only prima facie evidence of the law.
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You can read more about Sara Rose, Kid Lawyer, a 4th grader who likes to argue!
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Sansone v. Gordon and releated cases:
“Who better than the nation’s highest court to decide if medical marijuana users have a right to concealed handgun licenses?
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The Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (OCDLA) Legislative Committee has posted a list of the criminal laws that were passed in the 2011 Oregon Legislative (General) Session. (See upper right link on their webpage.)

Thank you OCDLA.  This compilation represents a lot of hard work.

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If you run into broken links from this blog to documents on our website, the Washington County (Oregon) Law Library, we apologize.

When websites are upgraded, when webpages are moved, when links rot, we all know what happens.  Sigh.

We all try our best to clean up links, but sometimes we just need to move on, move forward.  (Maybe that was what James Joyce and Shakespeare decided too, when they looked at their published manuscripts and noticed typos or, heaven forbid, awkward sentences.  I bet they both said, “let it go, let’s just move on.  What’s past is prologue.” Well, it could have happened!)

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