Take a look at the Charlotte Law Library’s Guide to Free Online Family Law Resources. A few resources are North Carolina-specific, but there are lots of others that will be useful to lawyers in other states.
Oregon 2013 Senate Bill 123: Requires the Department of Human Services to adopt rules to establish Oregon Foster Children’s Bill of Rights. (Use this link if that one doesn’t work: text of the bill.)
This law will be codified in the 2013 Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) (to be published early 2014). The law’s effective date is January 1, 2014.
You can find the official text of the session law in Chapter 515 of the 2013 Oregon Laws.
If that dusty law book in your office hasn’t been scanned yet (assuming copyright allows you or another repository to do so), PLEASE Don’t Throw it Out!
(If you want to know how to get rid of used law books, read our “How to Dispose of Used Law Books” guide.)
Some very popular Oregon reports that are used a lot in print, but have also been scanned (yay!), including these:
Depending on your specific question, you will need to look at different parts of the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) or contact state regulatory or consumer agencies. Here are a few places to start your research (in no particular order):
1) Do a quick search for Oregon consumer law and car rentals. For example, Laura Gunderson at the Oregonian “Complaint Desk” and Brent Hunsberger at the Oregonian’s “It’s Only Money” column cover a lot of useful Oregon consumer-protection ground; they are worth reading. They are also the first to say whoops if they make a mistake or overlook something, so don’t stop there with your research. (These columns move around the Oregonian website, so you may need to use a search engine to find them.)
Currently you can find PDFs of the 1955-1967 and 1995-2009 ORS at the Oregon Legislature’s website. Soon, the 1969-1993 superseded ORSs will be there, too. (Look under: “Selected Archives of the Oregon Revised Statutes.”)
The Washington County Law Library has been scanning these pre-1995 ORSs for the Legislature and they have been making those images available to everyone from their website. We have scanned through 1989 (and started 1991), but for a publicly-hosted set of these superseded statutes for the years 1967-1993, you need to be patient.
We have been told that the Legislature is in the middle of a website redesign project and won’t be able to publish the 1967-1993 superseded ORSs until October. (We wish them luck and lots of pizza for sustenance! A redesign is lots of work, lots of fun work (at least for librarians, website designers, and content strategists), but it is a mega-ton of work from start to finish, especially on the scale of a state legislature’s website).
A citation/abstract database of intellectual freedom news articles and editorials: Joint project of the Oregon State Library’s Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse and the Oregon Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee
“Currently, this is a citation/abstract database of news articles and editorials related to intellectual freedom issues covered in Oregon community newspapers over the past 65 years. Full text of articles will be added and available for download as permission is obtained from individual newspaper publishers. To request the full text of an article, contact the coordinator of the Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse….” [Link to Intellectual Freedom database.]
There is now (hurrah!) a print and eBook: “Using Small Claims Court in Oregon,” by Janay Haas.
But there is still a lot of work to do if you are a party to a case filed in Oregon Small Claims Court – and want a verdict in your favor (that is, if you want to win) – and if you want to collect on the judgment:
If you are a plaintiff, a defendant, or otherwise need to appear in Oregon Small Claims Court ….
New marijuana laws in Washington and Colorado raise the bar for dog training: Here’s a blog post from the Gallagher Law Library (UW) blog:
Drug Dogs Going Back to School
The blog post also includes a reference to a recent Oregon Law Review article: “The current issue of the Oregon Law Review (available free in PDF) is a symposium on drug policy. It includes Jane Bambauer, Defending the Dog, 91 Or. L. Rev. 1203 (2013). The author says “This short essay makes the uneasy case for the narcotics dog….”
Gary D. Haugen v. John Kitzhaber, (TC 12C16560) (CA A152412) (SC S060761), filed 6/20/13.
Read OJD media releases (link directly to the June 20, 2013 summary).
Read the whole case. (Or locate via “How to Find a Case Online – using free resources”)
Oregon Legal Research Blog