Even the Periodic Table of Comic Books has a Disclaimer.
“Even” you may ask? Of course! Copyright (and trademark): the ever present bugaboo.
(This and other fun stuff at Neat New Stuff, from the “librarian without walls.”)
As reported in the Oregonian’s In Portland 11/15/07 insert, in the Keeping It Weird column (which is eluding me online but read on for details), headline: “Did you hear what the semi-colon said, ” you will find an announcement of a fund-raising for Portland’s (Oregon) Independent Publishing Resource Center.
“Guests are encouraged to come ‘dressed as text.’” Dressing up as punctuation seems popular, but other bookish, typesetting, or literary costumes will be seen, if not heard. (Aren’t most people blissfully quiet while they read?)
What: Elements of Style fundraiser
When: Saturday, November 17th, 8 p.m.
Where: Portland Art Center, 32 NW Fifth Ave. (details)
How much: $5-15
Music: Pete Krebs Trio
Contact: 503-236-3322
Due to a blogger’s strike (well, one might be happening somewhere), we interrupt the currently scheduled program to bring you Art and the Law.
(Please don’t blame me for this. I got the link from Tom Mighell’s Internet Legal Research Weekly! 🙂
Law Librarian Blog links to a new CRS report, “State Statutes That Proscribe the Use of Symbols of Fear and Violence with the Intent to Threaten.”
Incidents at OSU and Reed come to mind.
Excerpt from the blog post and the report:
Both the Oregonian AND the City of Portland got the name of the court wrong (or wonky) in this federal court case, City of Portland v. EPA. I expect this from one, but not from the other (and no I’m not going to say which).
There is no “District Court of Appeals” and the Oregonian story just weaseled out of precision (and accuracy) by referring to “the” Court of Appeals, of which there is no such thing. The definite article does not belong to any one U.S. Court of Appeals. There are 13 of them, so either say, “a” U.S. Court of Appeals or identify WHICH U.S. Court of Appeals you are referring to.
In this case, City of Portland v. EPA, it was the U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE D.C. CIRCUIT that issued this opinion (and you could know that by looking at page 1 of the case).
(URL = Uniform Resource Locator, e.g. this is a url: http://www.tinyurl.com/ and so is this: http://oregonlegalresearch.blogspot.com/)
TinyURL has been around for donkey’s years, but it’s never too late be the latest person to learn about TinyURL. And, best of all, the service has about a 3-second learning curve. Paste in your long URL, wait a second, and voila, out comes your TinyURL:
From their web page:
Sources of information on the FRCP:
1) The U.S. Courts Rulemaking pages.
2) The U.S. Courts homepage on rules of practice, procedure, and evidence.
I don’t know if a lunch pail lawyer is different from a brown-bag lawyer, but it’s a useful question to ponder if you don’t have anything at hand to read, that is to say, from the f/k/a post on lunch pail lawyering – as always, haiku-bountiful:
lunch alone
without a book
i read my mind
(haiku by tom clausen)
A fellow law librarian alerted us to this report from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics on State Court Organization, 1987-2004.
From the Virtual Chase (their Research News Alerts), comes this:
“Urban Legend: Expunged Records Disappear
(30 Oct) BRB Publications, Inc. reprints an excellent article by Lester S. Rosen, an employment law attorney, on what happens to expunged criminal records. “[J]ob applicants [generally believe] that after a judge vacates, expunges, sets aside, defers the adjudication or otherwise judicially erases a criminal record in some fashion, the records disappear and can never be found. With limited exceptions, the general rule is that the government does not destroy records. In the typical scenario, even if the judge orders a set aside, the consumer’s name can still be found by searching the court indexes and the case can still be viewed as a public record.”
Oregon Legal Research Blog