Who appoints the Circuit Court Presiding Judges?
Read the Statute: ORS 1.003 (and always check the index and the annotations for more)
Experienced lawyers tell new lawyers this all the time: Read the Statute!
Finding a qualified, licensed, affordable, and available in-home caregiver is almost a full-time job in itself, as anyone who has tried to do this knows well.
The best place to begin your research is with the: State of Oregon Home Care Commission and their Consumer / Employer Tools website.
Their contact information is:
I bet you didn’t know there was a professional association that advocated for publications that publish public notices:
Public Notice Resource Center, Inc
You can read their Mission Statement:
I meet more Oregon attorneys who don’t know about this wonderful news than attorneys who do know, so here goes:
Starting January 1, 2010, the OSB BarBooks database will be available and free to ALL members of the Oregon State Bar.
(Many Oregon county law libraries will have subscriptions to the database, too.)
Read more about the database or contact the OSB (not me, please), if you have questions.
This question usually comes to the law librarian in this form:
Is it legal (lawful) to own and use a personal stun gun (or taser) in Oregon?
But related questions may include the following the following:
(Note: An ECD is an Electronic Control Device)
A recent media release from the Washington County Health and Human Services Department describes their Mental Health Court:
Mental Health Court: Moving From Jail and Hospital to Stability in the Community
“Washington County’s Department of Health and Human Services Mental Health Division is partnering with other County agencies to help people with severe and persistent mental illness and criminal justice involvement live in the community safely. This is intended to help people avoid both hospitalization and going to jail as the result of their mental illness….
In the library world, one always meets people who want to learn something new every day. It’s not hard to do, but what if you want to get really serious about acquiring knowledge:
8 Awesome Websites to Take Free College Courses Online, posted by Dave Drager on Sep. 30th, 2010
(Thank you to iLibrarian, which always entertains and informs!)
Register to VOTE!
Register to VOTE!
Everyone should vote, but here’s “Why Women Vote: Iron Jawed Angels”
On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment granted the ballot to American women.
“Section 1. The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
If you Google the words: Oregon citizen arrest, you’ll get an immediate answer to just about anyone’s question about citizens arrests in Oregon, you’ll get a link to attorney Ray Thomas’s excellent and detailed website posts on the subject and links to the statute, ORS 153.058, and even to my previous OLR posts on citizen arrest rights.
Sarah Mirk wrote a recent article about a “citizens arrest” communication gap, which has nothing to do with a generation gap. I bet all these police officers and bicyclists have Internet at home and if anyone asked them a question, they would imediately go online.
If you walk or bicycle, I highly recommend that you keep a reference to the statute on a sticky note or on your smart-phone, and read the article:
(If you are reading this in 2011, or later, make sure the statute has not been amended or repealed.)
The text of 2009 ORS 153.058 Initiation of violation proceeding by private party:
“(1) A person other than an enforcement officer may commence a violation proceeding by filing a complaint with a court that has jurisdiction over the alleged violation. The filing of the complaint is subject to ORS 153.048. The complaint shall be entered by the court in the court record.
Oregon Legal Research Blog