Oregon Legal Research BlogHere are some starting points if you want to research daycare licensing issues.
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Power to Children and the Poor: Utility (power, light, and water) Service
Another type of law library question that we, and public libraries, start hearing as the weather gets colder:
Where do I find the law that that says power companies cannot turn power off if you are very poor, have children, or are elderly?
Quick answer, if the utility has been or soon will be turned off:
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A Healthy Food Tax Credit, Not a Fat Tax
An interesting article from a recent Oregon Law Review:
A Healthy Food Tax Credit, Not a Fat Tax
Chris L. Winstanley (J.D. 2008, Oregon) has published Comment, A Healthy Food Tax Credit: Moving Away From the Fat Tax and its Fault-Based Paradigm, 86 Or. L. Rev. 1151 (2007).
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LegalLinks from OSB: Small Claims, Animal Law, Legal Myths, and MORE
If you haven’t tried out the streaming video at the Oregon State Bar’s (OSB) website, now’s the time to make yourself comfortable and settle in for 30 minutes of some good old fashioned law-learnin’. Think how much smarter you will be afterward!
Topics include animal law, small claims, landlord-tenant law, police stops, charitable giving, legal assistance for military personnel, consumer bankruptcy, immigration law, bicycle law, and MORE.
There are no bells and whistles with these videos, and you might need some coffee or tea to give yourself a boost, but you will be so much wiser after listening to these. And they are only 30-minutes, which I know is a lifetime in this world of 25 second u-tube moving pictures. But lower your heart rate, live longer, impress your friends, your dates, your parents even!
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Statutes of Frauds in Oregon
I haven’t posted lately any of our law library’s reference questions. Here is one and others will follow:
Where do I find the statute of fraud?
1) If you are asking out of curiosity:
Statutes of frauds are laws that specify when contracts must be in writing. An Internet search will give you basic information, e.g. at wikipedia.
In Oregon specifically, you will find references to various statutes of frauds in the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS). Use the online index to the ORS to locate which section you need or you can look in the print edition, available at many public libraries. Further research into how those laws are applied can be done by looking at the annotations to the statute. These annotations are in the last volume of the ORS.
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Yes, Virginia, You CAN Make a Citizen’s Arrest in Oregon: Who Knew?
Another hitherto little noticed section of the ORS (see also the Jury “Duty” post about ORS 10.235): this time, it’s ORS 153.058, Initiation of violation proceeding by private party.
(Perhaps I should have my readers working on the ORS instead of the Oregon Constitution?)
See the story in the Willamette Week, by Corey Pein, 9/3/08: DIY Justice: In Oregon, The Man lets you be The Man, too. Here’s how to play traffic cop.
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Jury Duty: We’re walking, we’re walking … we’re summoned, we’re summoned!
I’m not the only one who found this story (also in the Oregonian, print on 8/30/08) interesting – see Jack Bog’s Blog post (and Comments). And this is not the first jury-duty story I’ve read recently about jurors in Oregon not showing up, and what happens when they don’t. (My previous posts about jury service here and here.)
Text of ORS 10.235: Additional jurors; selection; notice.
(1) When an additional number of jurors is needed for a jury service term in a county because the term jury list for the term becomes exhausted, or in the opinion of the presiding judge for the judicial district is likely to become exhausted, before the end of the term, additional jurors may be selected and summoned as provided in this section.
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Bogging Down in Blogs: Expert Witnesses Who Blog
Expert Blogs: Loose Lips Sink…Trials?, by Robert Ambrogi, Editor, BullsEye Newsletter: August 20
Ambrogi’s blog-article is may be a logical companion my previous posts:
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Multnomah County (Oregon) Jail Report
Blog post, “Does Jail Work as an Intermediate Sanction,” linking to:
Sentencing Law and Policy blog post about Multnomah County jail report and the Vera Institute Report
Excerpt from Grits for Breakfast blog post:
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Naughty, Naughty: Lawyers and Public Officials: Disciplinary Records
Words are tricky, and powerful, things. I bet what you imagine when you read the words naughty, naughty (oooooh or sorry, mom) is completely different from the thoughts that surface when you hear disciplinary records (yawn). Oh, the power of words.
On to yawn, uh, disciplinary records:
From PI Buzz, both posts by Tamara Thompson: