In this political campaign season (365 days a year), I hope you have learned not to believe much of what you hear, read, or see online, or on the grapevine, or through a beery haze without first doing some serious fact-checking.
This admonition to fact-check also applies to any rumors about your county law library:
The law library is closing? (Maybe, maybe not.)
Carl Malamud, of Public Resource dot org, wrote an interesting BoingBoing blog post: “Liberating America’s secret, for-pay laws”
Previous OLR blog post on building codes and Veeck (Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress, 293 F.3d 791 (5th Circuit, 2002)
From the Oregon Judicial Department (OJD) website:
“Reminder — Oregon State Courts Closed Friday, March 23 for Mandatory Furlough
Oregon state courts and their offices will be closed Friday, March 23, 2012, because of budget cuts. All statewide court closure dates for 2011-13 legal holidays and mandated furlough days are posted here. Some courts also have limited public access hours to address staff cutbacks.”
Due to state budget cuts affecting county law library staffing levels and related service cuts, the Oregon Legal Research Blog will cease regular publication until further notice.
There is still a lot of useful legal research content on the blog. Use the search button or click on one of the subject labels (aka tags).
If you are interested in guest blogging, please contact the Washington County Oregon Law Library at lawlibrary@co.washington.or.us
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