Oregon Legal Research BlogYou’ll find lots to laugh and wonder about in the May 15th, 2012, Gallagher blogs posting:
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Job Opening: Oregon Legislative Administrator
Oregon Legislative Administrator:
(Closing date/time for application: Friday, 06/08/12, 11:59 PM, Pacific Time)
“The Legislative Administrator is selected by and serves as the full-time executive officer of the Legislative Administration Committee, a statutory joint legislative committee. (See ORS 173.710.) The committee has a continuing existence and functions whether or not the Legislative Assembly is in session. The Office of the Legislative Administrator coordinates the operations of the Legislative Assembly and the State Capitol. The Legislative Administrator manages the following departments critical to the operations of the Legislative Branch: Committee Services, Facilities, Purchasing, Information Services, Media Services, Employee Services, Financial Services and Visitors Services….”
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Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution: You Decide.
The Columbia Human Rights Law Review (publisher of the Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual) presents the evidence in its website publication of:
“An Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution,”
including court records, photos, news stories, audiotapes, interviews, maps, etc.
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Free Legal Information, Research, and Food: Think About It
If you’re not a lawyer, law librarian, or have never researched the law, where do you begin?
No, it’s not enough to find cases and statutes online. It’s also not enough to toss a question into cyberspace and expect someone to answer it with anything more than research tips.
Think about it.
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How do you Cite to a CFR Appendix?
Librarians, like mathematicians, find humor in the oddest places, so unless you’re one of us, don’t expect to find this as funny as I did:
While catching up on the back-issue research tip wonders to be found in the excellent LLSDC Law Library Lights newsletters, I came upon this article:
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Online CFR (Code of Federal Regulations)
Excellent CFR News: CFR Table of Contents
“Cornell Legal Information Institute has released an online version of the CFR. This new online edition of the CFR is the result of an unprecedented two-year collaboration between the Government Printing Office (GPO), the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School (LII), and the Cornell Law Library. …
The project implemented features that have been often requested by government regulators, corporate counsel, and law librarians. The LII’s edition of the CFR has the same search and navigation features that have made its edition of the United States Code the leading free, online source for Federal statutes for over a decade.”
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Immigration Law Help from the Immigration Advocates Network
There is a new website from the Immigration Advocates Network for low and moderate-income immigrants:
The website includes a searchable directory of free or low-cost nonprofit immigration legal services providers in 50 states. Users can search by state, county, or detention facility and refine their search by types and areas of legal assistance provided, populations served and languages spoken.
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Animals and Due Process of Law
“Law and Order, Then and Now: Animals and inanimate objects, including human corpses, put on trial,” from a March 2, 2012, Law Librarian Blog post, regarding:
Animals on Trial:
“…. In the history of animal trials, typically to adjudicate criminal complaints based on their behavior. Today’s animal rights advocates who are campaigning against breed-specific legislation might want to take note that in the annuals [sic] of animal litigation, defendants — the accused animal — oftentimes enjoyed the benefits of due process. In Bugs and Beasts Before the Law, Nicholas Humphrey, a theoretical psychologist who is known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness, reports….” [Link to full blog post.]