“Honda loses Civic hybrid Small Claims Court lawsuit,” by Jerry Hirsch, LA Times, Feb. 1, 2012
Link to the plaintiff’s website and twitter account and my previous posts.
The 2011 Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) are now online – yay!
You can find the 2011 ORS online at the Legislature’s website.
Visit the Oregon Secretary of State’s elections website for general information and links.
Check with your county’s elections office for drop-off instructions:
1) List of all County Election Officials
From a 1/25/12, Law in the News link, we travel to this story from England:
“Jurors: leave the information age—or go to jail,” by Peter Bright:
Excerpt: “An English court has sentenced a juror to six months in prison for contempt of court after she performed research on the Internet and forced the abandonment of a criminal trial.
Travelers and Aviation Buffs: FAA Mobile App
Infodocket brings us news of the first release of the FAA Mobile app.
News, travel advisories, updates, and more.
If you’re following the Honda Civic Hybrid Lawsuit, that Small Claims Court vs. Class Action Settlement case, you can find updates at the plaintiff’s website and twitter feed.
If you want to read about a Small Claims Court advocate, visit the HALT website.
If you want Oregon Small Claims Court information specifically, no, there isn’t a book or a guide, yet (one is coming later in 2012), but there are other research resources, including Oregon attorneys who can serve as Small Claims coaches:
Andy Zimmerman, of Zimmerman’s Research Guide, brings us this update:
All things must pass: the demise of the free Social Security Death Index
You can read more about this story by using these keywords – social security death index free (and making sure you read stories from late 2011 to the present).
Legal Research Plus brings our attention to the California Office of Legislative Counsel’s report on: “Authentication of Primary Legal Materials and Pricing Options, December 2011″
Stephen Elias, lawyer to the people, died last month. You can read an obituary at the Nolo website and a Nolo blog.
Law librarians knew Stephen as a mentor, a role-model, and as the writer of Nolo’s “Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law.”
Oregon Legal Research Blog