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On September 13th, 2012, California Governor Brown signed SB1075 into law, enacting the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act in California (UELMA).

From Law Librarian listserv:

“SB1075 provides that the California Constitution, the state statutes, and the California codes will be authentic and permanently available online to the citizens of California.   The bill, sponsored by the Senate Committee on Rules, leaves open the option to include additional categories of material through amendment and it establishes that the Legislative Counsel Bureau is the official publisher.

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We are working with our 9th Circuit Court of Appeals law librarians to update our existing guide to briefs from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In the meantime:

1) In a nutshell, you will find 9th Circuit Court of Appeals briefs filed since 2008 on PACER.

2) Read the previous blog post, “How Do I Find Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Briefs?”

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An interesting book review by Richard A. Posner (Judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit) of:

“Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts,” by Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner
(Thomson/West, 567 pp., $49.95)

Excerpt: “The Incoherence of Antonin Scalia, by Richard Posner, by Richard A. Posner, August 24, 2012, The New Republic:

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I was visiting the ever-enlightening FGI blog (Free Government Information) and came across a blog post about this treasure: State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States

You can link directly to the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States and if you do, make sure to click on the Oregon link, which was set up by the very talented Oregon librarian, Liz Paulus.

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Take your research skills to the limit:

1) Read “The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet: Conducting Effective Investigative & Legal Research on the Internet” 12th edition (as of 8/12)

2) Read: “Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Completely Updated – July 2012,” by Sabrina I. Pacifici, Published on July 14, 2012:

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Lawyers and other legal researchers rely on the West Key Number system and the Lexis equivalent headnote system to find relevant case law.

If you want to know how these indexing systems work “behind the scenes,” here’s an article for you:

“The Case for Curation: The Relevance of Digest and Citator Results in Westlaw and Lexis,” by Susan Nevelow Mart and Jeffrey Luftig.

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Sincere apologies, but there is no way to make this a short blog post for those new to this task, so bear with me.

This blog post will cover these topics:

I) Online Court Documents: A Brief Primer

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In case you were wondering (and especially if one day you ask me if I remember when and where this article was published):

Zack Mazur, “Crime and Contempt: One of these things is not like the other,” Oregon Defense Attorney, July/August 2011, vol. 32, No. 4., pp. 6-7

This is a copyrighted publication from OCDLA so you may need to get a copy from them or from a law library that subscribes to the publication – though for now, OCDLA very kindly and generously makes previous issues available publicly at their website.

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Now that WWDTM (Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me) has included this case in their radio quiz program, maybe I should catch up on blogging about it – especially since the contestant didn’t know the answer.

On July 18th, 2012, Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge David Rees acquitted John E. Brennan of an indecent exposure charge.

The decision (order or opinion) is not at the Multnomah County Circuit Court website so you’ll need to contact the court if you want a copy. (Look for a future OLR blog post about e-Court and locating circuit court documents.)

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