Articles Posted in Legal Subject Area Guides

This is worth spreading around (I got the link from Tom Mighell’s Internet Legal Research Weekly and here.)

14 Numbers link, from the CrankingWidgets:

“So, if your cell phone has no other numbers stored in its memory, make sure it has these numbers:

Do you listen to Oregon legislative hearings and other online recordings?

Take their Public Survey for Improving Legislative Recordings (link is also here).

“The Oregon Legislature is conducting a survey to determine ways to improve its recordings of floor sessions and committee hearings. Your responses will help us design a new recording system that will make it easier to access legislative content.”

The Oregon Legislature wants to hear from you, here or here.

BoleyBlogs links us to a School Law Blog (not to be confused with Law SCHOOL blogs :-).

I had a classmate in law school who planned to practice “school law.” At the time I hadn’t a clue what I wanted to do with my J.D (as is true of many but not all law students) and only later realized what a rich field she was entering. School Law covers a lot of ground including labor and employment law, civil rights, criminal, juvenile, family, torts, religion, government benefits and entitlements, discrimination, contract, disability, athletics, and of course, education law. (Local government law is similarly diverse, vibrant, and relevant to people’s lives.)

Here are a few other School Law links:

The ever alert Tamara Thompson at PI Buzz alerts us to offender registries popping up around the country: sex offenders, domestic violence offenders, methamphetamine offenders, DWI offenders, and more.

We get a lot of requests from people wanting to know if official records exist online for everything from divorce to death to dog fighting to drugs. They seem disappointed when I say “yes and no.”

Here’s the link to Judge Mosman’s opinion. You can find it also from here (link may move over time). This is a transcript of the judge’s ruling from the bench rather than a formal written opinion.

The subject of the lawsuit was the Oregon Family Fairness Act, 2007 HB 2007.

I’m not the only Portlander (or pedestrian) reading this story, Man Jailed for Creating Crosswalk, Vows More, who thought it might have originated in “my own” neighborhood. But this is an Everywhere problem. Let s/he who hasn’t been tempted to do the same as Mr. Stump step off the sidewalk first. (Dare I make the point that Portland is also known as Stumptown?)

Excerpt from the news story:

“Whitney Stump didn’t like watching drivers ignore the stop signs at the intersection outside his home, so he asked the city to paint crosswalks there.