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Justice Bedsworth: Why God Made Misdemeanors and the NCAA Sanctioned Cal Tech
Justice Bedsworth’s take on these matters makes as much sense as anyone’s – and maybe a little more. And he’s a real judge! (Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.)
OC Lawyer, A Criminal Waste of Space: September 2012: Schools by the NCAA
Excerpt: “…. So we, greenhorns all, learned the rules of evidence and the complexities of human nature by trying misdemeanors. If you dropped the blood vial in a driving-under-the-influence case and watched it shatter on the floor—as actually happened to one of my contemporaries—you were not turning a puppy-raper loose on society. If you over-prosecuted a petty theft case, it was unlikely your mistake would change the earth’s rotational rate.
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Some Students CAN Discharge Student Loans in Bankruptcy
Marketplace Money ran an interview with Ron Lieber, author of the recent NYT story on discharging student loan debt in bankruptcy:
1) Marketplace Money (9/7/12) podcast: Student loans and bankruptcy
2) Ron Lieber’s (9/31/12) New York Times article:
Last Plea on School Loans: Proving a Hopeless Future
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13 (law of nature) things that do not make sense
Lawyers aren’t the only ones who are confused, befuddled, and bedeviled:
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Want to search our catalog? There’s an app for that
Have you ever been caught away from your computer with the desperate need to see if the law library has the latest collecting judgments CLE? If so, you’re in luck as you can now download the LibraryWorld Search app for Android and iOS (available through their respective app stores). Washington County Law Library’s catalog is available to search under the library name WCLL2. LibraryWorld also has a mobile website: http://www.libraryworld.com/mobile. You do not need a password to search our catalog using the app or the mobile website.
More information about the law library’s catalog can be found on our website: http://www.co.washington.or.us/LawLibrary/catalog.cfm.
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3rd Annual Oregon Archives Crawl, October 6, 2012
Mark your calendars, make new friends, learn new research skills at the:
Third Annual Oregon Archives Crawl
Saturday, October 6, 2012
10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Free and Open to the Public
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Neil Armstrong: A Moment of Silence, Please
Neil Armstrong, his predecessors, and his successors hold a permanent spot in the hearts of many of us who dreamed the “I could be an astronaut!” dream and remember the tragedies and triumphs of our outer space pioneers, whether they wielded slide rules at ground control or landing gear on spaceships or died in the pursuit of knowledge, adventure, and a chance to touch the stars.
Governor Kitzhaber orders flags at half-staff in honor of Neil Armstrong.
“DEATH OF NEIL ARMSTRONG, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION
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Posner vs. Scalia: a Case of the War on Words
An interesting book review by Richard A. Posner (Judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit) of:
“Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts,” by Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner
(Thomson/West, 567 pp., $49.95)
Excerpt: “The Incoherence of Antonin Scalia, by Richard Posner, by Richard A. Posner, August 24, 2012, The New Republic:
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Verisimilitude: Cops, Crooks, & Fictional Lawyers: Just the Facts, Ma’am
Writers: if you are not a cop, a lawyer, or a librarian (to name only 3 professions that appear a lot in fiction), please do your homework. There are lots of cops, lawyers, and librarians who would be happy as clams to advise you on whether or not your character meets the verisimilitude test.
1) An NPR Saturday Edition (8/25/12) interview “For Writers, The School Of Hard Cops” with Crime Writers Consultation made me wonder if real police officers “learn” how to be cops from TV cops the way some ordinary folks think one can learn court civil and criminal procedure from watching TV
2) While wandering the Multnomah Central Library shelves one cold, rainy afternoon not long ago, I came across this book: “Just the facts, ma’am : a writer’s guide to investigators and investigation techniques,” by Greg Fallis, Writer’s Digest Books, c1998.
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Is Hyperlocal Journalism a Partial Cure for Journalists’ and Writers’ Panic Attacks?
Writers, journalists: do you need an antidote to Newspaper Death Watch?
Regain your excitement for the written word, for news, for the world around you: Explore Hyperlocal Journalism: Local Independent News Publishers
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