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Visit SCOTUS blog for a report and links: New Policy on Tapes Release

In Oregon, CD’s of the Oregon Supreme and Appellate Courts’ oral arguments are usually available the day after the hearing, depending on the bailiff’s work flow. To obtain a copy of the CD, contact OJD at 503-986-5553. The cost is $10 per argument (as of today). A form must be completed and payment is required in advance unless an attorney is requesting, in which case the attorney can be billed.

If you’re not an attorney, call and ask for specific instructions. Don’t try and find the information on the OJD website, unless you have a lot of time. There is a lot of information on the OJD website, but it’s difficult to find specific information. (All of us who work on websites know and understand the problem! We just have too much information to post for our customers, patrons, constituents, etc. and it seems not enough time to organize it all properly.) Sometimes THE TELEPHONE is your Best Friend!

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Georgetown Law Center has a super-duper, extra-delicious and wondrous guide to free and low-cost legal research databases. I refer people to it so often that it has become my friend. (If corporations can be “persons” then a research guide can be a “friend.” Yes, no, maybe? Please let’s not discuss. Sigh.)

Use it and enjoy – and give a big THANK YOU to law librarian Todd Venie who keeps it stocked, chock full of goodness and well within any sell-by dates. (If you’ve created guides like these you know just how much work goes into them. Wowsers.)

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I meet more Oregon attorneys who don’t know about this wonderful news than attorneys who do know, so here goes:

Starting January 1, 2010, the OSB BarBooks database will be available and free to ALL members of the Oregon State Bar.

(Many Oregon county law libraries will have subscriptions to the database, too.)

Read more about the database or contact the OSB (not me, please), if you have questions.

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Gallagher (UW Law Library) Blog brings us news of this:

“Sample Interesting New Writing About Law with Jotwell, The ‘Journal Of Things We Like (Lots)’ — is a blog where a several law professors post substantive comments about recent scholarship. It’s supposed to help people keep up with interesting writing from different fields….” (Link to GLB post or Jotwell)

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I have written before about how you cannot prepare for a serious court proceeding using just the resources you find on the “free” web. (And, aren’t all court proceedings serious?)

That is, if you have an adversary who knows how to research law and legal procedure, if you will appear before a judge in a court of record (as opposed to, e.g. a small claims court or traffic court where you are not expected to know “the law”), if you want a fair shot a winning your case, then:

You need to do the research – and that means researching case law and statutes, And, that is just the BEGINNING:

(And, even in small claims and traffic court it helps to do your research.)

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From Robert Ambrogi’s Law Sites 9/23/10 post: Thomson Unveils Global Hub for Free Legal Help:

Excerpt: “At an event today in New York City, Thomson Reuters will formally announce the launch of TrustLaw, a Web-based service that is intended to promote “the culture and practice of pro bono” around the world….” (Link to full blog post)

The TrustLaw site says: “TrustLaw is a global centre for free legal assistance and anti-corruption news, run by Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the world’s leading provider of news and information, Thomson Reuters.

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Dewsnup v. Farmers Insurance Company of Oregon, (SC 057895), decided September 16, 2010:

Supreme Court Media Release:

“…Today, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that, based on plaintiffs’ expert’s affidavit, the question whether a roof, after a homeowner has begun to disassemble and repair it, remained a “roof” for the purposes of a homeowners’ insurance policy, was a question of fact that must be decided by a jury rather than being determined by a judge on summary judgment….” (Read full 9/16/10, Media Release or full opinion.)

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The OSB has had a winning line-up of new books released this year, and the latest one “Rights of Foreign Nationals“is as welcome to lawyers and law librarians as the previous titles were, which include:

1) Interpreting Oregon Law

2) Oregon Trial Objections

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The excellent (and fun!) Mighell Marker, a Legal Technology Weekly, Volume 11, Issue 26 September 12, 2010, alerts us to this:

Marcus Zillman’s Factchecker Directory (homepage):

“The Directory of Fact Checkers is a Subject Tracer Information Blog designed to be a comprehensive listing of the available fact checkers and sources on the Internet and is being compiled and edited by Internet expert and guru Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. and Executive Directory of the Virtual Private Library” (link to Directory)

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After highlighting Yale Law School Dogs in a previous blog post, I would be remiss if I omit a blog post on their rare book exhibit on Courtrooms in Comic Books.

(From the exhibit, “Superheroes in Court! Lawyers, Law and Comic Books“, curated by Mark S. Zaid, Esq., and on display Sept. 4-Dec, 16, 2010 in the Rare Book Exhibition Gallery, Level L2, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School.)

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