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GPO Library of the Year: San Bernardino County Law Library

It’s pretty special in my world (where public law libraries are constantly under threat of losing funding) for a county law library to win such a national award. Congratulations to Larry Meyer and his incredible staff at the San Bernardino County Law Library for winning this award. In addition to their usual excellent public law library services (and they have rescued me on more than one occasion when on the prowl for elusive CA docs), they are also a Federal Government Depository Library (and I know how much work that is, former gov docs law librarian that I am).

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Today’s story in the Oregonian, “High court backs pickup owner over insurer,” is more interesting than the headline might lead you to believe.

The case it refers to is: Gonzales v. Farmers Insurance (S054486):

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Legal Research Tip: When doing your research, remember, keep notes on who you talked to and when (even what time!), what was said, what website, book, or brochure you looked at, who you want to contact next, etc.

And away we go:

GENERAL INFORMATION ON FORECLOSURE:

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UPDATE: Read Kama’s Comment below: NOT ALL of us have really heavy election ballots requiring extra postage!

You ballot is heavy and MAY require more than a 41 cent stamp!

Here’s an excerpt from the Register-Guard story, One stamp isn’t enough Long ballot needs 59 cents of postage, Oct 21, 2008 09:12AM

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Public Resource dot com has started putting various state building, fire, mechanical, etc. codes online, at their codes dot com site.

Keep an eye on the site – and on everything else they are doing at Public Resource dot org – very exciting.

(But, please, be sure to check with your own jurisdiction’s code enforcement staff. Building codes are updated piecemeal and in full, and it takes time for third-party database vendors to update their own holdings from official sources. Links to my previous posts on Building Codes are here and here.)

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Did you know that there was a Pacific Northwest Paralegal Association (PNPA)?

The association offers members training and networking opportunities. PNPA members and employers of paralegals can also make use, for no cost, of their Job Bank.

If you have questions, look at their Contacts Us list.

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My previous post on Oregon appellate court briefs should perhaps have been prefaced with links to materials on the appellate process itself, that is, to all the materials at the Oregon Judicial Department (OJD).

1) From here, you can get to these, and many other documents:

a) Oregon Appellate Court Style Manual
b) Court Rules and Rule Amendments

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This blog post is written primarily for the new appellate court brief writer, either the new lawyer or the pro se litigant.

Not all materials on briefs writing are online (surprise, surprise), so be prepared to visit an Oregon law library:

1) OSB “Appeal and Review” (loose leaf) (from the Oregon State Bar or an Oregon law library)

2) Various CLE course materials on the Oregon appeals process (titles vary from law library to law library depending on collection size and purchasing decisions).

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More than one lawyer I know is an avid reader of poetry and prose and they will all appreciate the Kurzban’s haiku contest winners and contestants.

Samples:

Big toe is throbbing.
I dropped Kurzban’s upon it.
A weighty treatise.
-by David N. Simmons, Denver, CO

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