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In the latest issue (Vol. XXV, No. 3, July 2008) of the newsletter from the Estate Planning and Administration section of the Oregon State Bar (OSB) reports on this story in its “Looking Ahead: Legislative Proposals for 2009” section:

“Proposed Limits on Fees Allowed in Probate to Heir Search Firms: This proposal regulates the activities of heir search firms. The proposal addresses several concerns with the way these firms operate. The fee is often one-third to one-half of the inheritance the person found by the search firm will receive ….”

(Only past issues are online, but you can contact your nearest law school or county law library (see sidebar for links) and ask to see a copy.)

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(Conferences (past and future) are as bad for blogging habits as are vacations, but I, and my readers, soldier on 🙂

This week, we’ve been getting quite a few Legislative History questions, from hither and yon, about new and old statutes. So, in the interest of those who would like a few hints on where to begin (and end), here are links to a few guides:

1) A quick and easy guide, from Oregon Dept of Admin Services (not pretty or well-formatted, but this guide does the trick without unnecessary bells and whistles).

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Please see the Oregon Curfew Laws July 1, 2009, update.

I bet you thought curfews were from the old days (or war-torn countries). Or of the classic corfu/curfew mixup sort (“Curfew will not ring tonight!”) from here).

But these are real curfews – for real children (and parents)!

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Local news reports make a big(ish) deal out of the fact that Oregon is the only hold out in the No Hand Held Cell Phones on the Left Coast race, with both California and Washington now signing onto similar laws.

For a more nuanced view of the issue, though not why Oregon is a holdout (and we all have our hypotheses), visit California’s Make Believe Car Phone Safety Law at f/k/a for some commentary, links, and poetry.

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Oregon has excellent resources for non-profits and volunteers, whether you run one, serve on a board, want to work at one, or want to start one:

1) Connectipedia (see 6/17/08 Oregonian article, by Steve Woodward: Nonprofits share the knowledge)

2) TACS: they write the Oregon non-profit source book, without which we would all flail about helplessly, with or without profit.

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One of my library patrons expressed some curiosity about the relative property tax rates of different Oregon counties (and cities). This was prompted by reading the “timber money” article in Sunday’s Oregonian, where a resident of Grants Pass/Josephine County was quoted as saying that local residents pay a property tax rate of $.58/$1,000 (see below for excerpts from the article).

And a few weeks ago, a speaker on Think Out Loud noted that the residents of his county paid nothing for the services of their sheriff’s department (it has been paid for out of the taxpayer-supported timber payments). (Compare this with my law library’s Washington County where the residents in the past two elections voted in special levies for Sheriff’s Department services.)

So, how does one compare the local taxes people across the state pay, including counties that want federal timber money, counties with Indian reservations, counties with prisons, with farmland, with desert, etc.?

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See also, Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law: An Opinionated Primer, by James Grimmelmann, New York Law School

See also: State of Oregon backs off claim that its law is copyrighted

(I last blogged about this here.)

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Final recount results are in, here.

Of course, there is also this:
Official Count from the Oregon Secretary of State’s election web page (which hasn’t been updated since the 11th, or so it says – it’s a mystery).

Last posted about here, here, and here

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Most headline news stories would benefit from better analysis (not to mention better research) than they are generally given by journalists in 500-1,000 (or even 5,000) word articles and sex offender registration stories are at the top of that list.

For another “view of the cathedral”, (with apologies to Guido Calabresi) on this difficult subject, see f/k/a, who has been blogging thoughtfully on this subject for quite a while now.

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