The Oregon DMV offers print (English and Spanish) and audio versions of the driver manuals:
From the Oregon DMV website, click through to their Manuals webpage.
And more from their Forms and Publications webpage.
May 20-26, 2012, is Dog Bite Prevention Week. Who knew?!
“Important Tips for Preventing Bites from Man’s Best Friend” with a link to DogGoneSafe.
Hatfield U.S. Courthouse Sculpture: Cat on Trial in Law of Nature
I only today discovered this garden while looking at the Judith Resnik, Dennis Curtis online edition of their book: “Representing Justice,” but locals may recognize the sculptures. There is a field trip in my future.
The “Law of Nature” sculpture might be more familiar.
Legal Research Plus blogs about: govDelivery “Email Best Practices Guide”
You can link to the govDelivery website and the “Public Sector Digital Communication Management: Best Practices” guide from the Legal Research Plus website.
The Columbia Human Rights Law Review (publisher of the Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual) presents the evidence in its website publication of:
“An Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution,”
including court records, photos, news stories, audiotapes, interviews, maps, etc.
If you’re not a lawyer, law librarian, or have never researched the law, where do you begin?
No, it’s not enough to find cases and statutes online. It’s also not enough to toss a question into cyberspace and expect someone to answer it with anything more than research tips.
Think about it.
Excellent CFR News: CFR Table of Contents
“Cornell Legal Information Institute has released an online version of the CFR. This new online edition of the CFR is the result of an unprecedented two-year collaboration between the Government Printing Office (GPO), the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School (LII), and the Cornell Law Library. …
The project implemented features that have been often requested by government regulators, corporate counsel, and law librarians. The LII’s edition of the CFR has the same search and navigation features that have made its edition of the United States Code the leading free, online source for Federal statutes for over a decade.”
There is a new website from the Immigration Advocates Network for low and moderate-income immigrants:
The website includes a searchable directory of free or low-cost nonprofit immigration legal services providers in 50 states. Users can search by state, county, or detention facility and refine their search by types and areas of legal assistance provided, populations served and languages spoken.
“Law and Order, Then and Now: Animals and inanimate objects, including human corpses, put on trial,” from a March 2, 2012, Law Librarian Blog post, regarding:
Animals on Trial:
“…. In the history of animal trials, typically to adjudicate criminal complaints based on their behavior. Today’s animal rights advocates who are campaigning against breed-specific legislation might want to take note that in the annuals [sic] of animal litigation, defendants — the accused animal — oftentimes enjoyed the benefits of due process. In Bugs and Beasts Before the Law, Nicholas Humphrey, a theoretical psychologist who is known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness, reports….” [Link to full blog post.]
(Sometimes people call this 2009-2010 law the Health Care Reform Act, ObamaCare, the Affordable Health Care Act, etc.)
Do you want the enrolled bill, the session law, a section number, or a page number? (If the latter, you’ll need to be specific about which version of the law the page number appears.)
This information may help – or so we can hope:
Oregon Legal Research Blog