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If you need a reminder that there are funny, honest, and treacle-free people in this world and who are law librarians – and Ray is one – read on for a charming and very funny article about such a mensch:

“His madcap recaps of Berkeley softball games have been a hit for 25 years

Raymond Weschler has organized an egalitarian pick-up softball league since 1997, but he prefers writing emails about the games to playing in them,” by Joanne Furio, Feb. 27, 2022, at the Berkeleyside (nonprofit news, free for all, funded by readers):

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The contest’s essay topic for 2022: The First Amendment and the Schoolhouse Gate: Students’ Free Speech Rights

High school students who live within U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit jurisdiction may enter the contest.

“An essay and video contest for high school students in the western United States and Pacific Islands….”

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Our Oregon Historical Society, and its Oregon Encyclopedia, commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the President’s Executive Order 9066 (2/19/1942).

Visit the OHS Oregon Encyclopedia for this and other documents on the incarceration of Japanese people during World War 2. (Use the Explore tab for an A to Z index.)

Primary Source documents: Overview: Japanese American Wartime Incarceration in Oregon

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Mandamus Proceeding: Kristof v. Fagan (Feb 2022)

Filed: February 17, 2022

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON

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Recommended reading for anyone who thinks more tech, online forms, and better legal design will substitute for professional legal services, i.e. People Need Lawyers (and lawyers in public service need more support):

“They Had Access, But They Didn’t Get Justice: Why Prevailing Access To Justice Initiatives Fail Rural Americans,” by Michele Statz, Hon. Robert Friday, and Jon Bredeson, published in:

Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy, Volume XXVIII, Number 3, Spring 2021, 321

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The Oregon State Bar (OSB) is requesting feedback on their proposal on licensing paralegals:

“… to provide some legal services that currently only lawyers may provide….”

Read the OSB summary of the proposal, view the video, and link to the questionnaire:

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“Oregon advances alternative routes to becoming a licensed lawyer” (OSB article, 1/17/2022)

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OREGON STATE BAR ALTERNATIVE PATHWAYS TASKFORCE COMMITTEE REPORT & RECOMMENDATIONS (undated report, circa 2021)

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