Read the Oregon Law Office Management blog post: Encryption: Essential Best Practice or Much Ado About Nothing? and find, among other tidbits, a link to “C’mon, C’mon, C’mon, Let Me Show You What It’s All About: Encryption ABC’s, Easy as 1-2-3.“
OJD’s Oregon eCourt Implementation News website will keep you posted on where and when eCourt is going live and on related news stories. It’s fun watching it grow and spread, not like a virus but like an oasis in a desert. Water, we need water! Data, we need online data!
Many, many years ago (2006!) I challenged readers of this OLR blog with a question AND promised to post an answer: “Do any and all of these rules allow for “out of cycle” amendments: UTCR, SLR, ORCP, and ORAP?” I can’t find a 2006 blog post that would have answered the question so here is my “I’m still learning” answer and corrections are welcome:
UTCR (August 1st) — Qualified. See UTCR 1.050(1)(c).
SLR (February 1st) — Qualified. See ORS 3.220(2)(b).
The new Oregon Legislature’s website goes live Oct 1, 2013. This is great news for legislative and legal researchers (and government wonks, too).
1) Superseded ORS, 1953 – present: Legislative Counsel been posting their superseded digital ORS files and soon all the superseded ORS images scanned by the Washington County Law Library, 1953-1993, will be added to the Legislature’s database. (Now you can find those superseded statutes from the Bills/Laws pages of the Legislature’s website, but we’re not sure where they’ll reside in the update. Maybe the same place or not. Either way, research is a grand adventure!)
2) Click on the Legislature’s New Website Going Live October 1st link for a list of many more updates.
Read the Guest Opinion “Oregon Supreme Court protects tenants from landlord retaliation,” by Tracy White, attorney, in the Hillsboro Argus, August 14, 2013.
“Premeditated, wilful and wanton slaying” of Bigfoot was once a Felony (Ordinance 69-01).
Not anymore, but read the whole Ordinance 1984-2 from the county’s website:
Bigfoot Ordinances (Skamania County, Washington State) (scroll to bottom of the screen).
Do you know where the most pedestrian fatalities occur? What about those Crosswalk Laws?
Take the Look Before Crossing quiz. It’s quick and fun and educational. What more can you want?! If you live in Portland, take the quiz soon and win a free “I Break for People” bag.
Take the quiz with your children or your walking-buddies!
A “committee pony” is a document created by the Legislative Fiscal Office mainly for the bill carriers as the bill is favorably passed out of a Ways & Means committee.
What’s a Bill Carrier? Read on:
A Bill Carrier: “The legislator assigned by the Committee Chair to explain and speak in favor of a measure on the floor and to answer questions about it.” (See more definitions at the Oregon Legislature’s Glossary.)
The 2013 NCSC Trends in State Courts includes an article by OJD’s David Moon, “Oregon Courts Turn Crisis into Opportunity.”
[If that direct link doesn’t work, try this TinyURL or search “2013 NCSC Trends in State Courts” and follow the links.]
The Legal Genealogist tells an interesting Oregon genealogical, name change, and legislative history story: “The Grandson”
Visit the Legal Genealogist website and blog for lots more fascinating legal genealogical stories.
Oregon Legal Research Blog