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An event in the Portland metro area (previously blogged about), open to all Oregonians, to assist people who facing possible foreclosure:

Home Ownership Preservation Event

FREE
Open to the public
Saturday, May 2, 2009
10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Portland Memorial Coliseum
300 Winning Way, Portland, OR 97208
Free parking
On the TriMet MAX line, Rose Quarter Transit Center

To register, please click here or call (in Salem) 503-947-7854 or 503-947-7068. Please note that childcare will not be provided.

Other foreclosure posts on the Oregon Legal Research blog.

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Government website on the flu: PandemicFlu dot gov. Also, from the CDC , WHO, Wikipedia and beyond, learn about Endemics, and pandemics and Epidemics.

Those of you who have read some histories of the Flu of 1918 (as opposed to reading just headlines), or some of the less overwrought news (e.g. at the CDC) may recall that there was a 1918 Springtime outbreak of flu that preceded the more virulent Autumn one. (I liked John Barry’s book, the Great Influenza, but there are others, many others.) You may also recall that those who caught the early, less virulent form either didn’t get the deadly one or had a better outcome if they did (they lived) than those who had not been exposed previously. They were, in purely layperson’s terms, “vaccinated.”

As my father used to say about Calculus 101. If you survived it, you had been vaccinated and were immune; you didn’t have to get it (take it) again. You might go on to get Calculus 201, but you had a better chance of survival than if you hadn’t been exposed previously to Calculus 101.

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If you missed the Maira Kalman and Justice Ginsburg May it Please the Court (and Pursuit of Happiness) illustrated article, from the New York Times, 4/23/09, catch it now.

If you were wondering about Maira Kalman, try her webpage or Wikipedia entry. She also has a presentation at the TED conference, a source of much other inspiration (about which I blogged a while ago).

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A question frequently asked in law libraries: What is the highest interest rate imposed on debts allowed by Oregon law?

Here is my 2009 (before the end of the current 2009 Legislative Session) answer to the general question, when it comes to me via email.

(Note: if your situation is more complex than trying to figure out what the interest rate on that unpaid parking ticket is going to be, or what to charge your adult child for a car loan, I recommend you talk to an attorney. Answers to questions about interest rates on credit cards, on debts, on child support, on money judgments, etc. need more research than the average person can do “on the web.” NO, no, no – it is NOT all online.)

The very shortest answer to the general question is “It Depends!”

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The Oregonian’s Business section of the daily print paper has had such good consumer law and small business stories and information lately that I’m wondering why they call it Business, rather than Law or Working or Buying & Selling. (I’m sure one of their readers or reporters could come up with something better – naming newspaper sections is clearly not my bailiwick.)

That said, be sure to look at their consumer info, especially, but not only, the Complaint Desk. I cut out some of the best Oregon consumer news from local newspapers and more than one of my library patrons has benefited from that old-fashioned “vertical file” of articles. Some samples from the Complaint Desk:

1) Get past the operator; find real people

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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Town Hall / Conference on DRM

Given how complex EULAs are (to the tune of whatever EULA wants, EULA gets), we don’t get enough questions about them from the public. (Librarians are always agonzing over them, law abiding souls that we are.)

Also, Ars Technica has this interesting post about real-people reactions to DRM:

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PI Buzz has a post, with Comments, about a Mexican court records database: Mexico Court Record Index Online.

Finding other countries’ court records databases doesn’t appear to be that difficult in a Google World, however, you should always try and talk to people who use those databases professionally to find out the pitfalls, the shortcomings, the strengths, and the alternatives. Private investigators and librarians who specialized in public and criminal records searching are excellent resources for database evaluations.

(PI Buzz also has a series of articles about Sunshine Week and government transparency.)

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An Oregon county law library colleague found the “pig” case we were looking for (previous pig post), except it turns out to be cows, not pigs – yoinks!

(In everyone’s defense, the students thought they were looking for a case about foreseeability or proximate cause, not res ipsa loquitur – and a pig and a gate and The Law – or so their instructors told them.)

From my colleague: “Perhaps we are seeking the wrong barnyard animal? There is a similar Tillamook County case involving a cow and an open gate: Watzig v Tobin, 292 Or 645 (1982) 50 Or App 539 (1981).”

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During a recent search for an old Oregon case* (at least we think it is an Oregon case – and even that it is old may be debatable), a colleague sent me a link to this news story about some feral pig legislation working its way through the Oregon Legislature: HB 2221 (PDF or HTML):

Man vs. pig like Ahab vs. Moby Dick, by MARK FREEMAN, Medford Mail Tribune, April 11, 2009:

Excerpt: “POWERS, Ore. — There’s a big pig rooting its way around Jody Cyr’s 400 acres of southern Coos County rangeland, and Cyr has spent the better part of the past three years doing his best to kill him.

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People seeking to divorce often don’t realize how entwined their lives have become, with each other and with the law. It’s hard enough to deal with finances (and the dreaded QDRO) and “telling the children,” but what do you do when the benefited children get their own divorces, and the will doesn’t specify what share, if any, the ex-spouse gets?

A recent article in the April 2009 issue of the OSB Estate Planning and Administration Section newsletter (previous issues of the newsletter are free online) addresses some of these issues and looks at some recent Oregon cases:

“How to Avoid Unintended Consequences of Estate Planning in Dissolution Court,” by Lisa Bertalan and Melissa Lande.

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