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The good news out of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon is that overall bankruptcy filings for the district were down in 2011 compared to 2010.  There were 17,151 cases filed in 2011, compared with 19,741 in 2010.  If you compare the 2011 numbers with the total case filings from 2005 (32,168 total case filings), the 2011 statistics appear promising.  However, we still receive many questions about filing for bankruptcy.  So, we’ve created a new legal research guide on bankruptcy, available on the Washington County Law Library’s website.  As usual, if you can’t find a document on our website, check out our handy, alphabetical document index.    

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Oregonian article: “Oregon Court of Appeals says consumers with unpaid credit-card debt aren’t off the hook unless six years have passed and no lawsuits are filed,” by Aimee Green, The Oregonian, March 30, 2012, and Sunday, April 01, 2012.

Oregon Court of Appeals Cases (link from OJD COA opinions website or from OJD homepage):

1) Unifund CCR Partners vs. Rigoberto Porras (Docket # A146957)

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I came across a couple of good articles with tips for people who use fill-in-the-blank estate planning form.

One is from a Consumer Reports story, “Write Your Own Will?”

The other was from the Oregonian’s Brent Hunsberger March 12, 2012, article: “Fill-in-the-blank wills can be a little skimpy.”   He used some web-based legal services and then solicited comments and feedback from Oregon attorneys.

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If you’ve been following the news regarding the proposed administrative rule eliminating Native American mascots in Oregon public schools, and wanted to know more administrative rules and administrative law in general, you’re in luck. The Washington County Law Library has a brand new administrative law legal research guide available on its website.  You can find more Oregon Legal Research blog posts on administrative law, including an invaluable post on researching the history of an OAR, using the “administrative law” tag.  As always, many other legal research guides are available on the law library’s website, and you can always peruse the document index for quick document retrieval.

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Interested in following the U.S. Supreme Courts arguments in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Cases?

They plan to allow same-day audio of the oral arguments, so keep an eye on the Supreme Court’s website March 26-28, 2012.

Or, maybe you’d rather do a crossword puzzle? Gallagher blogs about: NPR’s Legal Crossword Puzzle

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If you want to read the legislation behind all the news coverage about Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industry (BOLI) Labor Commissioner election dates:

Assuming the link has not changed – read a PDF version or an HTML version of 2009 HB 2095 (session law: Chapter 511, (2009 Laws): Effective date June 24, 2009)

If the link has changed, go to the Oregon State Legislature Measure Search and type in the session date (2009) and the bill type and number (house bill 2095).

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Carl Malamud, of Public Resource dot org, wrote an interesting BoingBoing blog post: “Liberating America’s secret, for-pay laws”

Previous OLR blog post on building codes and Veeck (Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress, 293 F.3d 791 (5th Circuit, 2002)

 

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I was working on a blog post featuring studies that show the flow of tax dollars from taxpayers, to federal general funds pools, and then back to the states (and then presumably back to taxpayers), when I ran across a blogger’s instructions to readers who Comment. The instructions are worth quoting, and worth reading.

From Barry Ritholtz at Think Tank (scroll down to the post’s Comments section to see these instructions):

“Comments
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.” [Link to blog post and instructions to Comment writers.]

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“If you want to keep law resources, contact your legislator,” Feb 8, 2012, letter by a Columbia County attorney, published in the South County Spotlight.

This is an important reminder that, no, not all legal research resources are online, and even if they were, people still need to learn how to research the law, how to compile legislative histories, and where to find legal assistance services in their communities.

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