The 2011 OSB & LASO Bankruptcy Clinic schedule is out:
The Bankruptcy Clinic classes are held on Tuesday evenings, from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. Appointments follow the classes. There is no child-care available.
The Clinics begin at 6:15 p.m. and start with a bankruptcy class taught by a judge or experienced bankruptcy lawyer. Class are open to all residents of Clackamas, Columbia, Multnomah, Washington, and Yamhill Counties.
We not infrequently get questions from people worried about some new animal law they heard about or who just have an “animal law” question. You can start with one or more of these resources to find an answer to your question:
1) Oregon Legislature: searching for bills and laws by session
“The Portland and Spokane Field Offices of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will hold a Citizenship Instructor Workshop – via webinar – on Monday, March 21st, 2011 at 9:15 a.m.
Please re-register if you would like to take this webinar.
The webinar is a continuation of the on-location workshops presented around Oregon over the last seven years that are aimed at instructors who are currently teaching classes – and those who anticipate teaching in the near the future. Topics covered include teaching civics, basic naturalization laws and procedures, the exam and tests, and resources for instructors. The webinar allows participants to interact with the instructor and ask questions.
What DO public law librarians do? We all do pretty much what public law librarians do in Texas, Maryland, Wisconsin, Georgia, Ohio, Colorado … and California, whose county law librarians made this excellent 2 minute, 35 second video.
Among other things, we save people time, money, aggravation, and fear:
CA County Law Library Video now on YouTube: Who Have You Helped Today?
Legal Research for Parents of Adult Children with Disabilities
Questions from parents about adult children with disabilities can cover a very wide range of legal issues. The following resources (and our new Disability Law Legal Research Guide) cover a few popular topics.
Special Needs Trusts:
1) The Arc of Oregon has a website on the Oregon Special Needs Trust. The Oregon Special Needs Trust is a “pooled trust” fund that provides supplemental needs to disabled individuals.
2) The National Special Needs Network offers answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Supplemental Needs Trusts.
State and county resources:
1) The Oregon Department of Human Services has a list of County Developmental Disabilities Programs and a Support Services Brokerages List by county/region.
2) The Washington County Developmental Disability Program offers a number of useful agency links on their website.
3) Lifespan Respite, from the Oregon DHS, provides information for families and providers about caring for a child or adult with special needs.
We have a new legal research guide, Disability Law, available on the law library’s website. The new legal research guide provides resources on a variety of disability law-related issues including ABA, ADA, disability rights, and employment rights. In related news, a proposed bill impacting the rights of disabled children in public schools, HB 2939, has been introduced to the Oregon State Legislature. The following is a brief synopsis of House Bill 2939 from the bill’s summary:
“Prohibits use of mechanical restraint, chemical restraint or prone restraint on student in public education program. Allows use of physical restraint or seclusion on student in public education program under specific circumstances. Describes procedures to be followed if physical restraint or seclusion is used. Requires preparation of annual report related to use of physical restraint or seclusion. Directs Department of Human Services to approve training programs in physical restraint and seclusion.”
You can read more about House Bill 2939 in this recent article from The Oregonian.
Thursday, March 10, 2011 program:
Sponsored by: Health & Human Services Department, Commission on Children & Families Division:
Washington County’s Children of Incarcerated Parents Committee (CIPC) will present a report to the community about its four years of progress to improve the lives of children whose parents are incarcerated. The free program will take place at the Hillsboro Civic Center, 150 E. Main Street in Hillsboro, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 10.
Curious about redistricting?
1) State of Oregon Redistricting Information, including maps, definitions, upcoming hearings, and much more.
U.S. Supreme Court: Camreta v. Greene; Alford v. Greene (09-1454; 09-1478)
Oral argument: March 1, 2011
Ninth Circuit case: Greene v. Camreta (2009: #06-35333), excerpt:
Civil disobedience, and its close cousin, civil resistance, has existed for centuries, maybe longer. The recent Gene Sharp article in the New York Times (2/17/11) had a long list of related links for further research, including a link to his Albert Einstein Institution and his e-book, “From Dictatorship to Democracy.”
We all know the most visible of the nineteenth and twentieth century peace-makers, Thoreau, Gandhi, King, but there are dozens, hundreds, thousands of others, some of whom have won Nobel Peace Prizes (as Gene Sharp may very well do next year) and most who have not.
Clarence Jones, lawyer to Martin Luther King, wrote his own book recently about a peacemaker and it is a wonderful read. It is a deeply moving account of a missing piece of our recent history: “Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation.”
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