Oregon Legal Research Blog1) Lest you think lawyers and law librarians don’t have no fun, take a look at these:
2) Hollywood Librarians (the movie) coming to Portland (Oregon).
3) Thousands of Law Librarians (!) coming to Portland, July 12-15th, 2008.
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Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) Copyright Dispute: June 20th Update
There will be news on the blogs (especially here and here) about this hearing later, but, unless I misunderstood completely (possible given the sound quality):
… the Oregon Legislative Counsel Committee passed a motion to disclaim all copyright claims and not to enforce existing copyright claims against Justia, Public resource dot com, etc.
This is NOT the exact text of the motion and this is just Committee action. I don’t know exactly what happens next to make this official, but we’ll find out in due course.
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Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) Copyright Dispute: Live Hearing TODAY, June 19th
Don’t forget that the hearing before Oregon Legislative Counsel Committee is today and you can listen live. For details on how to listen, go here.
You can listen to it after the fact too, but will need to install Real Player, if you don’t have it already. (See here for instructions.)
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Oregon Revised Statutes Copyright Dispute: Listen online to the June 19th hearing
The Legislative Council Committee hearing on the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) copyright dispute between Legislative Counsel and Public Resource dot org will be held:
Thursday, June 19, 10:30 AM, Hearing Room A
There are numerous, and overlapping, links into these live links, so try the one that works for you:
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Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) Copyright Dispute: June 17th update
Latest posts on the upcoming June 19th hearing in Salem:
1) From Wikiprojectoregon, Time to Get Political! (which also posts time/place of hearing)
2) Jack Bog’s Blog, State of Oregon as cyberbully
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Legal Research for the Intrepid but (honorably) Clueless
If you’ve never, ever researched the law, I recommend you start at the beginning and work your way up:
1) This quick online (and PDF) guide from AALL LISP is an excellent starting point: How to Research a Legal Problem: A Guide for Non-Lawyers
2) Next, if you are brave enough, move on to the hard-core books on legal research, many of which you can find at your local libraries, including books from Nolo Press and HALT, both of which have excellent legal research guides, online and in print.
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Oregon Revised Statute error/correction: 2007 ORS 680.505
The print 2007 ORS has a printing error affecting §ORS 680.505.
The online version or the ORS has been corrected. Legislative Counsel has a PDF document with the correct text that can be inserted into the 21-volume print set.
In case you were wondering, yes, these things do happen, which is why one should usually take a quick look, or a longer one as the case may be, at the session law, at least in those instances where something doesn’t seem quite right about the code.
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Oregon Revised Statutes Copyright Dispute: June 19th Hearing
June 19th, 2008, hearing in Salem, on this copyright dispute. (I last posted about this dispute here.) No details yet about time, where, or who.
Letter here (via Public Resource dot org).
SCRIBD documents on this matter are located in this Scribd group, also courtesy of Public Resource dot org.
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Session Law (Oregon Laws) vs. Codes (Oregon Revised Statutes)
In response to the person who asked (in a Comment to this post – and thank you for the question – it is an excellent one!) the difference between a session law and a code, specifically between the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) and the Oregon Laws, I offer this. It is about as brief a description as can be made, but it is followed by suggestions for further reading.
(Keep in mind, that this is interesting stuff to law librarians and not necessarily to others, so you can always visit your local law library to see and hear and not just read about these government publications. We love this stuff: a previous Washington D.C. tour highlight for a bunch of us law librarians was a visit to the Office of Law Revision Counsel that prepares the U.S. Code (not to be confused with the session law, the U.S. Statutes at Large).
Oregon Laws: a chronological compilation of laws passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor. Published officially by Oregon in a set called, Oregon Laws.
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Oregon Association of Parliamentarians, 2008 Convention
The Oregon Association of Parliamentarians will be holding their 2008 Convention in Portland, March 15th, 2008.
These are the people who second rather than strike motions.