From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:
This question comes to law librarians with a variety of different back stories, but the gist of the question remains:
Question: What DO you do with a check that keeps getting returned for insufficient or non-sufficient funds?
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:
Rental property Habitability questions can be separate from Repair questions for landlord and tenants, but the two can overlap, as you might imagine.
Habitability questions we hear in the law library can be a broad as: what does a habitable apartment looks like? Or, as specific as: does an apartment have to have a window large enough for me to climb out?
There are a number of excellent sources of information on Oregon landlord-tenant law, online (e.g. this from the Oregon State Bar (OSB) and these) and in print (note: the OSB link has been fixed.) The latter print resources include Janay Haas’s “Landlord/Tenant Rights in Oregon,” which most public and law libraries have (unless their copies have been stolen – sigh) and some other landlord-tenant resources not online but available at your county law library.
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:
See the press release at the FTC: Marketers of Mystery Shopper Scam Settle with FTC
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:
Hot on the heels of yet another law library patron asking me to refer them to a paralegal instead of a lawyer (and we never, ever refer anyone to paralegals (aghhhh) or to specific lawyers – just lawyer referral services) and my posting the other day about Liability for Lawyer Referrals, I read this decision by the Oregon Court of Appeals, Wythe v. Harrell (docket number A133382).
Here’s an excerpt from the OJD Media Release, dated December 3, 2008, but the case itself is worth reading (and it’s only 4 pages):
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:
The flurry of debt collector news stories this past week leads me to post a few of the places to start your research if you have unpaid bills and debt collectors contacting you – and if you want to speak out to your state legislators (just in time for the beginning of the 2009 Oregon Legislative Session).
The (mostly local) stories I refer to (and surely not a comprehensive list in this economic climate) include:
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:
There is an interesting article in the Fall 2008 Litigation Journal, The Diminishing Viability of Wrongful Discharge Claims, pp. 6-9.
(I also want to express my gratitude to the members of the OSB Litigation Section for making this newsletter freely available online.)
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:
The Neuroethics & Law Blog reports on (and links to) this article: Ten Years of “Death with Dignity” in the New Atlantis.
The New Atlantis (a Journal of Technology & Society) article is here.
I posted previously on Oregon’s Death with Dignity law here.
1) I just came across the American Bar Association’s Ten Steps to Protecting the Legal Rights of Breast Cancer Patients, including their Breast Cancer Legal Advocacy Project initiative.
2) In Washington State, the Bar Association has released a resource guide (the link from this article may not work, in which case, link to the resource guide here).
3) In Oregon, I blogged a while ago about the Breast Cancer Legal Advocacy Project and updates on the Project can be read at the Susan G. Komen webpage.
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:
There are a lot of questions law librarians respond to that we would never, ever in a million years blog about, but others are, uh, fair game. This is one of them:
Q: Are there laws about road kill, what we can do with it, what happens if we come upon it, etc.?
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:
(This is a companion blog post to the previous ones on Writing (and Finding) Oregon Appellate Court Briefs and on Filing and Drafting Oregon Appellate Court Documents.)
We’re working on a more comprehensive research guide of resources for people who are [contemplating] appealing their cases to the Oregon courts of appeals, but in the meantime, look for these at your law library. These resources are in print only, unless otherwise noted:
Oregon Legal Research Blog