A complete answer to this question depends on where you live. IF you are in a city with a federal court library or, lucky you, in a city where a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Library is located, you may have a few other options.
You may also have access to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (official name) briefs that are available on Westlaw or Lexis.
In time the briefs may appear on PACER (and a few may be there now, but I’ve not ever seen one there myself).
In the good old days (uh, maybe not so good), this statement meant something very different from what it means today. In fact, it could be a test of how reference desk-qualified you are. Those library staffers who don’t see both meanings need some retraining.
“I can’t remotely use x law journal?”
Speaking of seeing “both (all!) meanings,” don’t forget these classics: Old Woman or Young Woman or the Vase or Face.
And Mona, from the Exploratorium online collection.
If you haven’t tried out the streaming video at the Oregon State Bar’s (OSB) website, now’s the time to make yourself comfortable and settle in for 30 minutes of some good old fashioned law-learnin’. Think how much smarter you will be afterward!
Topics include animal law, small claims, landlord-tenant law, police stops, charitable giving, legal assistance for military personnel, consumer bankruptcy, immigration law, bicycle law, and MORE.
There are no bells and whistles with these videos, and you might need some coffee or tea to give yourself a boost, but you will be so much wiser after listening to these. And they are only 30-minutes, which I know is a lifetime in this world of 25 second u-tube moving pictures. But lower your heart rate, live longer, impress your friends, your dates, your parents even!
This week’s Willamette Week’s story on Ken Kesey and The Screenplay (Sometimes a Great Lawsuit) is terrific – and a dream for [at least] this public law librarian who is always looking for stories that warn people about the perils of how Too Much Legal Self-Help is Not a Great Idea, especially when it comes time to drafting “agreements.”
Mr. Kesey could have dropped by his Lane County Law Library for some, uh, sample forms. Although, at that time he’d more likely have bumped into a zillion Eugene, Oregon lawyers who would been more than happy to help him draft the darn contract.
Keep in mind too, that the Lane County Law Library has been around for over 60 years!
From BoleyBlogs, and not just for law students:
For you non-lawyers out there, yes this sometimes happens. Lawyers really do learn useful things in law school and know things mere mortals don’t! (But not everything, so it doesn’t hurt to do your homework.)
From the OSB Litigation Section Newsletter (and they put it online – thank you!), July 2008 issue, this article by Caroline Harris Crowne & Julia E. Markley: “Federal Arbitration Act Preempts Oregon’s Legislature’s 2007 Amendement to Oregon Arbitration Act.”
“… In 2007, the Oregon legislature imposed a restriction on certain kinds of arbitration agreements that flies in the face of U.S. Supreme Court case law. ORS 36.620(5), part of Oregon’s version of the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act (“OUAA”), now requires that, in order for an arbitration agreement between an employer and employee to be valid, either the employer must give the employee two weeks’ notice before the first day of employment that an arbitration agreement is required as a condition of employment or the arbitration agreement must be entered into upon a “subsequent bona fide advancement” of the employee….” (full article from here, p. 4)
As if there wasn’t already more great legal research info than we could use in a lifetime, Nolo Press is now blogging (thanks to Law Librarian Blog for lead):
Shakespeare and Lawyers, from f/k/a (with links):
Excerpt (quote):
“… ‘Service to others is a worthy goal for an aspiring professional and the best response all lawyers can make to our critics. We might also urge the bashers to read their Shakespeare more carefully
I was looking at the Google Insights service (prompted by PI Buzz’s exploration of the service) and thought I’d run my [free, online] Online Consumer Reports “test” on it, i.e., just how many people do search for Consumer Reports via Google and how do they search for it?
The results were interesting to say the least. I limited my search to United States and the past 12 months, 9 months, and 30 days (all different results, all useful).
Three possible conclusions (of many others one could likely draw):
Welcome the new KCLL Klues: Washington State Legal Research Blog: Tips and tricks for Legal Research in Washington State. This is the official blog of the King County Law Library and adds even more legal research information than we already find at their main website – wowsers!
Oregon Legal Research Blog