The good news is that the number (and weight) of Oregon corporation law research resources are a fraction of what they would be in Delaware, California, and New York. The bad news is – well, the same.
Keep in mind, though, that a lot of corporation/business legal research is not state-specific and you may need to use those non-Oregon research tools of the trade, too, depending on your question(s).
Top of the Oregon list:
1) Visit the Oregon Paralegal Association and Pacific Northwest Paralegal Association (PNWPA) websites.
2) Celebrate with the PCC Paralegal Program, which recently earned ABA approval, the first paralegal program in the state to achieve this honor — Congratulations!!
3) A few other paralegal websites to visit, among a cast of thousands:
There are all kinds of writs: execution, attachment, review, mandamus, and assistance, to name a few.
The one most commonly asked about by pro se litigants is the writ of assistance. Here are some sources of information and forms:
Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association Civil Process Manual (aka “Sheriffs’ Manual”)
Public Records Officer, University of Oregon
“The Public Records Officer (PRO) is a position in the new Public Records Office that reports directly to the President and is responsible for the effective, timely and thorough compliance with the public records law and managing, processing, and completing all public records requests submitted to the University of Oregon. The PRO analyzes each request, determines where responsive records are located, and communicates with other offices to gather the responsive records. With advice as needed from the Office of the General Counsel, the PRO will determine whether records are exempt from disclosure or prohibited from being disclosed and respond to the request accordingly. Currently the university receives 125 – 150 public records requests annually….” (Link to full post or U of O HR homepage.)
Note: I use the term “temporary” marriage below instead of “short-term” marriage because the latter is how marriages of very short duration are described and labeled in some courts. (*See below for more on “short-term” marriage in Oregon.)
Whenever someone asks why we (Americans, I presume, or maybe Oregonians) don’t have temporary or “short-term” marriage (meaning of limited duration by choice, not a marriage that lasts for a short-term), I refrain from playing the wedding-wag and saying, “what do you think a prenup is all about?”
Prenuptial agreements are about a whole lot more than money and power and can be extremely valuable marriage contracts, but if not managed seriously by each party to the marriage, I suppose they could be viewed as a back-door route to temporary marriage (e.g. in Islamic law), which may be one among other reasons they can raise some people’s blood pressure.
If you are planning to marry and are curious about prenups (curiosity is a good thing), in addition to reading some of those terrifying books, websites, and magazines on weddings, I recommend you read Nolo Press, “Prenuptial Agreements: How to Write a Fair & Lasting Contract,” 3rd ed., by Katherine Stoner & Shae Irving, J.D.
Some of the most difficult cases for lawyers, and social workers and judges, to resolve involve juvenile sex offenders, i.e. sex offenders who are under the age of 18 and very often under the age of 16. Work with juvenile offenders (and juvenile witnesses) is difficult under any circumstances, but sex offense criminal charges add another dimension to the complex equation.
I’ve been working on a juvenile sex-offender bibliography and thought I’d post here what I’ve found so far. I’m sure there are many other resources. These are, of course, in addition to case law and legal treatise resources.
ARTICLES and WEBSITES
· Bibliographies, Young offenders, Updated February 2010: This bibliography of recent research has been compiled from the library collection of the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
I loved this article by Conrad Jacoby:
“Of Refrigerators and E-Discovery,” by Conrad J. Jacoby, LLRX, April 21, 2010.
It brings to mind what Harry Markopolos had to say about the SEC (they were clueless at fraud detection, but thought they were the bomb) …and, in another context, conversations I have had with parents and computer scientists over whether their children and students, respectively, are Info Consumers or Info Producers. (Yes, one sometimes needs to be both, but an imbalance is fatal.)
Once upon a time, if you were researching Child Support Rules and wanted Commentary, you could find the documents on the agency website. But, alas, no more. The homepage refers to OAR Commentary, but you won’t find any.
You can find the archived Commentary, however, if you look at the Internet Archives (and Wayback Machine). Versions of the DHS Child Support Guidelines, with Commentary, are there. They are slow to load on my computer, but these searches in the Wayback Machine should get you there.
Option 1 (URL search): http://dcs.state.or.us/oregon_admin_rules/guidelines.htm
Option 2 (word search): Oregon child support guidelines rule commentary (this is just one possible word search)
If you’ve never had the pleasure of chuckling over a coffee and the London Review of Books Personals ads (some also collected in this book, featured in a 2006 NPR story ), here is a Small Claims Court one. Who knew?!
“I was recently victorious in a small claims court and with my compensation cheque I’d like to take you (F to 48) on a weekend bicycling trip to the Lake District Centre Parc. This offer doesn’t include meals or alcoholic beverages. M, 53. box no: 11/01”
If you plan to file in the Oregon Court of Appeals:
NOTICE: EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010, ORAP 5.05 is amended.
For cases in the Court of Appeals in which the notice of appeal (or other initiating document) is filed on or after July 1, 2010:
Oregon Legal Research Blog