“The Oregon Innocence Project (OIP) is a joint project of the Oregon Justice Resource Center (an independent nonprofit based out of Lewis & Clark Law School) and Metropolitan Public Defender whose mission is to (1) exonerate the innocent, (2) educate and train law students, and (3) promote legal reforms aimed at preventing wrongful convictions….” [Link to the OIP.]
The Oregon Innocence Project Launch and Benefit Party, April 9, 2014
The Oregon Legal Publications blog has a round up of some Legal Blogs on Criminal Law. You can add to the list via the blog post’s Comments.
If you ever wondered (and I’m sure you have – ahem), if there was a legislative session in any given year, here are some handy-dandy lists, courtesy of the Secretary of State’s Oregon Blue Book:
Have you visited the updated State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States?
Idaho Governor Butch Otter signed S 1356, Idaho’s version of the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, on 26 March making Idaho the fifth state in our region, after California, Hawaii, Nevada and Oregon, to enact this uniform law.
Alaska, Utah and Wyoming might be next to introduce UELMA.
More information about UELMA and the states that have enacted versions of the uniform law.
If you find a “law” on The Internet, doesn’t it mean it’s “The Law?” (hahaha)?
Not everything you read on the Internet is accurate. (I know! Hard to believe, but it’s true!)
Make sure the “law” you find online is accurate and know how to correct and update it if necessary.
Read the 2014 Oregon Secretary of State Trimet Audit. If the PDF doesn’t open, link to it from the Recently Released Audits page.
When this shortcut works, use the ORS Archives page and look for the Statutes Affected by Measures Tables (on the right as of today).
A longer or alternate way around to the same information for each Legislative Session:
This example assumes you have a print set of the 2011 ORS and want to know which ORS sections changed in 2013.
The superseded ORSs are starting to reappear at the Legislature’s website:
b) A backup source: Internet Archive resource (work in progress from the Oregon State Library): Historic Oregon Statutes
If you’ve ever come across one of these “see Preface” notes in the ORS, you might be wondering where you can find that Preface:
Example: “192.715 to 192.760 were enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but were not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 192 or any series therin by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.“
In the print, this is easy. You just open up Volume 1 and start reading.
Oregon Legal Research Blog