These sound like itsy-bitsy-TEDs, at about 1,500 times the horsepower. How can you resist?
Here is the March 3, 2010, Ignite! Announcement and here is the link to previous Portland Ignite! events.
(Thanks to Ernie the Attorney for the Ignite! Reminder.)
If you want or need to research the practical aspects of juries (as opposed to historical, jurisprudential, or philosophical jury research), here’s a terrific research guide from fellow law librarians:
Jury Verdicts & Jury Instructions Research Guide, from the Georgetown Law Library
There are also various Oregon sources of jury instructions and jury verdict compilations:
Attorney General’s Government Transparency Initiative
“Government transparency is vital to a healthy democracy. Public scrutiny helps ensure that government works for the people and spends their tax dollars wisely. The best way to hold government accountable is to make government records and public meetings accessible to the people. That’s why I’ve made enforcement of government transparency laws a major priority. Here are some major changes I recently put in place:
The Law Librarian Blog (with a hat tip to beSpacific) links to the report:
Humane Society Ranks 50 States on Laws to Protect Animals
The press release.
You read that right. It’s almost, but not quite, DSM-V time.
The editors of the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (expected publication in 2013) are soliciting input from people who have information of value to those who use the DSM — the current edition DSM-IV-R.
Did you know that ORS 132.440 requires that each year a grand jury inquire into the conditions and management of corrections facilities in each county in Oregon?
2009 ORS 132.440: “Inquiry into conditions in correctional and youth correction facilities. (1) At least once yearly, a grand jury shall inquire into the condition and management of every correctional facility and youth correction facility as defined in ORS 162.135 in the county.
(2) The grand jury is entitled to free access at all reasonable times to such correctional facilities and juvenile facilities, and, without charge, to all public records in the county pertaining thereto.
(3) Other than indictments presented under ORS 132.310 or presentments presented under ORS 132.370, the grand jury shall issue no report other than a report of an inquiry made under this section. [Amended by 1973 c.836 §55; 1985 c.565 §11; 1997 c.249 §44]”
Oregon Department of Veteran’s Affairs: Criminal Justice Portal:
“The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs is pleased to share this resource page intended for use by the criminal justice system. On this page you will find resources for incarcerated veterans, information about veteran benefits, links to strategic partners, important phone numbers for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Administration facilities in Oregon and more. If you have questions or would like to see additions to this page, please contact the ODVA’s Public Information Office at 503-373-2386…” (link to portal)
Don’t forget to check your own county’s department of veteran services, e.g. Washington County Department of Veteran Services.
Oregon 2010 HB 3686 (only the engrossed bill is available now. If it passes both Chambers, look for the enrolled bill, and later, after the Governor signs it, look for a 2010 Oregon Law, chapter xxx.)
This Summary is from the html version of the engrossed bill (also in PDF):
“SUMMARY
Richard Lee Simmons: Pursuit Of Justice: A lawyer fights for a young man he says was wrongly prosecuted, by Karen McCowan, The Register-Guard, Appeared in print: Monday, Feb 8, 2010:
Excerpt: “A small-town Oregon lawyer remains so outraged over what prosecutors did to a Central Oregon teenager in 2006 that he intends to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to seek redress.
For now, University of Oregon Law School graduate Steve Richkind, aided by several current students at the school, is asking the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to allow him to press a $3.5 million civil rights lawsuit against state prosecutors on behalf of Richard Lee Simmons….
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Joseph Rose, over at the Oregonian’s Commuting blog (aka Hard Drive) answers the question we are all asking. No, not that question or this one; the other one, this one:
What’s with the Flashing Yellow Arrows and how are they different from the not-flashing yellow and red lights?
Excerpt from: Of cleanups and flashing yellow arrows, by Joseph Rose, The Oregonian, February 01, 2010:
Oregon Legal Research Blog