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But when you’re in the early stages of research, or just curious, try these websites:
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Forbes dot com brings us this story:
More scam and other consumer protection information from the:
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The Uniform Law Commission (ULC) recently approved the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act. Find links to the latest UELMA draft and other documents and more at the June 11, 2011, Legal Informatics blog post: Uniform Electronic Material Act Approved by ULC.
For more about official, authenticated laws, follow the links at the June 11, 2011, AACPLL blog post, National inventory of primary legal materials, including a link to the seminal AALL State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources and updates.
Law librarians, lawyers, legislators, and others have been working on this problem for a very long time.  The problem: most digital (including online) statutes and other legal research materials are not official, authenticated, and are only prima facie evidence of the law.
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You can read more about Sara Rose, Kid Lawyer, a 4th grader who likes to argue!
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Sansone v. Gordon and releated cases:
“Who better than the nation’s highest court to decide if medical marijuana users have a right to concealed handgun licenses?
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The Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (OCDLA) Legislative Committee has posted a list of the criminal laws that were passed in the 2011 Oregon Legislative (General) Session. (See upper right link on their webpage.)

Thank you OCDLA.  This compilation represents a lot of hard work.

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Take a spin in the beta-test version:
“The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP) is an initiative to digitize historic Oregon newspaper content and make it freely available to the public through a keyword-searchable online database. The initial phase of the program will concentrate on newspapers published between 1860 and 1922, with a goal of approximately 150,000 pages freely available online in the first two years (2009-2011).”
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“No right to prosecute: With no district attorney in office, defense lawyers say all ongoing criminal cases must be dismissed,” by Phil Wright, East Oregonian, July 14, 2011

Excerpt: “Defense lawyers in Umatilla County are pushing to end criminal prosecution for lack of a district attorney. Attorneys have filed multiple motions to dismiss in the wake of the Oregon Department of Justice’s criminal investigation and prosecution of Dean Gushwa, who resigned as district attorney effective May 31….” [Link to full East Oregonian article.]
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We at the Washington County Law Library are pleased to announce the premiere of our newly redesigned website.  We’ve reorganized our content and added some new navigation menus.  A new navigation tab has been added for CLE information, and we organized our legal research resources into subject-area subsites (general resources, Oregon resources, subject guides, etc.).  We’ve also added direct links from our home page to the library catalog and the subject guides page.  One of the most exciting additions to the website (at least to us) is the document index, where we have compiled all of the documents available on the website.  Another exciting new subsite is the Divorce/Family Law page, accessible through both our website and the county’s homepage (from the Key Services & Information menu).  We invite you to explore the redesigned site and discover all our library has to offer.     

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Back in March, OregonLive.com ran a David vs. Goliath story on a man from Philadelphia who “foreclosed” on a Wells Fargo Home Mortgage branch.  The man didn’t actually foreclose on the branch; he won a judgment against Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, resulting in a lien that would have led to a Sheriff’s sale of the branch’s contents.  Judgment collection situations aren’t always that interesting, but we do get quite a few questions about judgments and how to actually collect on them.  So, we recently added a new legal research guide on collecting judgments to the law library’s website. 


For information on setting up a debt-collection business in Oregon, see Laura’s post from January 4, 2009.

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