We came across another useful legal research resource for those frequently asked couch-potato questions:
* Can I throw my brother-in-law out of my apartment?
* My sister tells me that under the 3-days-on-the-couch rule, she’s now a tenant and I can’t throw her sorry self out and change the locks.
I was talking to a researcher recently about submitting an “idea” to a company. They had come across an Idea Submission Agreement “online” and thought, “Jackpot!”
Not so fast, pal.
You’ll find many generic idea submission agreements online and companies also have their own submission agreement templates on their websites.
Guidelines for Open Data Policies (and more from the Sunlight Foundation and Open Congress)
Everyone likes open data, government transparency, consumer protections, and life online, but do you ever think about what it costs to make these happen?
Librarians and lawyers are watching this U.S. Supreme Court case on copyright law:
Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (11-697)
You can link to filed documents from SCOTUS Blog (and at PACER for the full docket).
We love voting in Oregon. Not only can we vote by mail, but we get a honkin’ huge Voter Pamphlet to read on long commutes and rainy afternoons, and for pure reading pleasure.
There is even a little comedy in the Voter’s Pamphlet, and I haven’t even gotten past Measure 78 on page 52 (out of 151 pages).
On page 52 of the Voter’s Pamphlet you will find the “Estimate of Financial Impact” of Measure 78, a fairly routine though slightly comic proposal to change some of the language of the Oregon Constitution. (It brings to mind a charming speaker at a county public meeting who said in all seriousness that “he liked Government but does not understand it.”)
The Law Librarian Blog alerts us to the Google Books Litigation Family Tree, developed by Jonathan Band, Library Copyright Alliance, et al.
There’s nothing like a flow chart for tracking complex processes.
You will need to research statutes and regulations on adult adoption in Oregon, but the following might be good places to start to get an overview of the process, sample forms, and other helpful tips:
1) Link to the Oregon State Bar (OSB) brochure on adoption, from the OSB website (if this direct link doesn’t work). (There is a small section on Adult Adoptions in the Adoption brochure.)
2) A 2003 Oregon State Bar CLE, “The ABC’s of Adoption” (in print only): this is not current law, but will give a good overview of the whys and wherefores of adult adoption.
It is next to impossible to feel confident about voting for one judge over another, or even voting for one who is unopposed, unless you are active in the legal community in a way that puts you in regular contact with judges and the people who work with them.
Even if you are an avid news-hound, even if you have served on a jury, even if you know someone who appeared before a judge, even if you know someone who says, “Judge x has my vote,” you may not feel that love, that trust, that confidence that your vote was well cast.
But vote we must – or at least we must give it the old college try:
2012 OSB House of Delegates Meeting will consider this resolution, too:
Resolution 21
“Resolved, The House of Delegates of the Oregon State Bar instructs the Board of Governors to support and to seek legislative approval for a centralized legal notice system to be operated for the benefit of all Oregonians under the auspices of either the state judicial department or a private nonprofit such as the Oregon Law Foundation.”
The “Law via the Internet Conference” will be held in Ithaca, NY, October 7-9, 2012:
Among other programs, this one promises to be provocative:
“Can We Trust What’s Online? Conclusions from the National Inventory of Legal Materials.”
Oregon Legal Research Blog