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In the latest issue (Vol. XXV, No. 3, July 2008) of the newsletter from the Estate Planning and Administration section of the Oregon State Bar (OSB) reports on this story in its “Looking Ahead: Legislative Proposals for 2009” section:

“Proposed Limits on Fees Allowed in Probate to Heir Search Firms: This proposal regulates the activities of heir search firms. The proposal addresses several concerns with the way these firms operate. The fee is often one-third to one-half of the inheritance the person found by the search firm will receive ….”

(Only past issues are online, but you can contact your nearest law school or county law library (see sidebar for links) and ask to see a copy.)

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A new Bedsworth at A Criminal Waste of Space to mark the day – July First! And it is, of course, almost the funniest thing you’ll ever read by an appellate court judge.

(I’ll not say anything more or will get into very hot water. But he does mention law librarians, which ought to merit a Yeah!, but will get more of a snerck (you know what kind of sound that is – the ones librarians everywhere contain valiantly (though not forever) when we’ve just been asked the Question of the Week at the reference desk.)

To sample a few previous Bedsworth columns, visit this site.

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Guilt by Association, here (aka collective responsibility), and here (association fallacy) and here*.

1) “She’s spent two years in a Mexican prison — now they want 23 more,” by Margie Boule, Sunday, June 1, 2008.

“…More than two years ago Rebecca and a Canadian woman named Brenda Martin were arrested by Mexican authorities and thrown in an overcrowded prison. They were charged with organized crime and money laundering.

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I’m a big believer in reading widely, from A to Z, from potboiling genre fiction to the turgid Russians (though I do tend to avoid what has been coined, Misery-Lit). (I posted about reading widely here too – especially the Delgado article.)

A story in today’s (5/28/08) Willamette Week Murmurs column reminded me again of the value of this reading pattern for lawyers. The story (excerpt):

“A man doing 25 months in state prison for assault is seeking $6.75 million in a lawsuit against Multnomah County and a Philadelphia-based food distributor for serving food he says led to a near-fatal heart fibrillation. In a federal lawsuit, Richard Orr, 46, of Wilsonville, claims he was subjected to “criminal inhumanity” in 2007 at the county’s Inverness Jail, where he says food did not comply with the low-fat diet prescribed by his cardiologist.” (read full Murmur)

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I bet you thought I forgot to post about the new Bedsworth, Criminal Waste of Space. You lose. This month’s episode is titled: Schaddenfreude a la Spitzer, so brace yourself.

(More on what a spitzer is, here at f/k/a. David has been in especially fine writing fettle lately, so read on from his very own f/k/a home.)

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I read Kevin Kelly as often as possible but still miss many of his writings, so thank you to Dennis Kennedy for zeroing in on this KK post, Better than Free. It’s a wonderful read:

Excerpt from Better than Free:

“The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it. In order to send a message from one corner of the internet to another, the protocols of communication demand that the whole message be copied along the way several times. IT companies make a lot of money selling equipment that facilitates this ceaseless copying. Every bit of data ever produced on any computer is copied somewhere. The digital economy is thus run on a river of copies. Unlike the mass-produced reproductions of the machine age, these copies are not just cheap, they are free….” (continue reading full post)

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A new Bedsworth (no April Fool, he :-), who once again feels the pain of the Legislator, among others:

“I try really hard not to throw rocks at legislators. For one thing, they have a very tough job, a very boring job, a job most of us wouldn’t take unless they’d stopped hiring at the steel mill. For another thing, if you throw a rock at a legislator, you’re gonna hit him; they’re as defenseless as an animal with opposable thumbs can be…” (Read the Full Bedworth, here.)

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The Friday, 3/28/08, Oregonian story by Anne Saker, “Oregon patient sues over sexual abuse.” According to this story, Oregon “does not require medical professionals to report sexual abuse of sedated patients”:

‘A woman who was sexually abused while sedated for surgery shed her public anonymity Thursday to file a civil suit and to promise she would fight to require medical professionals to report sexual crimes against patients under anesthesia.

“I’m dedicated to seeing some change happen, doing whatever I can, because I think it’s necessary. Something has to change,” Katherine Edson said….

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