Oregon Legal Research BlogBaseball’s Magna Carta: Setting the Rules of America’s Game: An exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society.
(See also the Battered Bastards of Baseball, a documentary.)
“July 1 – October 9, 2016
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A Reading List for People Planning to “Occupy” Public Property
Short of performing a bundy-ectomy (formerly reserved for Al or Ted), let’s get another view of this particular cathedral. Here is an old Law Librarian’s take on protest and occupation:
Read a Book, Read the Law:
The history of protest goes back to the beginning of human time (check out the Flintstones if you doubt me).
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Private For Hire Transportation (Uber, Lyft, Taxis) Forum (Portland, OR)
If you think this June 16, 2015, PFHT Open House sounds boring and you live in the Portland-metro area, you haven’t been paying attention to Sharing Economy news:
Portland’s Private For Hire Transportation (PFHT) Program and the Task Force Meeting Schedule.
From the Open House notification sent to NextDoor members:
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California Court Documents: Trial Court Documents and Appellate Court Briefs
California Superior (trial) Court documents note: availability and cost will vary from one Superior Court to another.
Visit the California Superior Court website where the case was filed and decided:
For example:
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Don’t Be a Legal Self-Help DIY April Fool
There is a lot of legal self-help you can do that really is DIY (do it yourself), but if there is a lot of money at stake, property, children, parents, dependents, your credit rating, your reputation, your heirs or inheritance, or anything else that matters to you, please be a smart legal self-helper by doing thorough legal research or consulting a lawyer. (Or both!)
You may need only to consult a lawyer or find one to coach you through your case. And you need to find the right lawyer, so take the time and read about how to find and work with lawyers.
But it’s worth taking the time to find that lawyer. You never know when you might need to consult a lawyer again, on a debt problem, a business start-up, a neighbor dispute, a landlord-tenant problem, an estate plan, or a family legal problem.
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20 Access to Legal Services and Information Apps
From the ABA Journal: “20 apps to help provide easier access to legal help,” by Joe Dysart, April 1, 2015.
Words to the Wise: DIY Lawyering can be risky – and expensive – if you have to pay a lawyer later to fix what you could have done correctly, and cost effectively, from the start. If you need to respond to a summons, draft a lease, a power of attorney, a contract, or a will, or take any legal action that requires you to know not only how to research the law, which rules of procedure to follow, and how the courts interpret the law, please consult an attorney. As a very wise lawyer/librarian says:
“If you read only what is written in the statutes, the cases, and the constitutions you will be absolutely wrong about what the law is.”
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Are Law-Lib Archives 35 years old in March 2015? Happy Birthday!
Law Librarians Rock and Rule!
I was checking the Law-Lib archives recently and noticed that the first archived Law-Lib email message appeared in March 1980. There was another one in January 1988, but the archiving didn’t pick up speed until August 1991. (Visit the Law-Lib FAQ for Law-Lib instructions.)
Can 3,564 dedicated subscribers (on 3/23/15) be wrong? Well, yes, they can! But not when it comes to crowd-sourcing our patrons’ legal research needs. The accumulated knowledge, kindness, and humor on law-lib is still awesome.
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Read the 180 Day Rule Regarding “Required disclosure of customer communications or records”
U.S. Congress at Work:
“(a) Contents of Wire or Electronic Communications in Electronic Storage.— A governmental entity may require the disclosure by a provider of electronic communication service of the contents of a wire or electronic communication, that is in electronic storage in an electronic communications system for one hundred and eighty days or less, only pursuant to a warrant issued using the procedures described in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (or, in the case of a State court, issued using State warrant procedures) by a court of competent jurisdiction….” [Link to the full text of 18 USC 2703 at the Cornell Legal Information website.]
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Open Access and the Law (Symposium, May 2015, Texas)
The University of North Texas is sponsoring an annual symposium on topics relevant to Open Access initiatives:
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$60 a Year for 75,000 (NYLI) Law eBooks?!!
Visit the New York Law Institute (NYLI) website for details about the service and the free trial, which would give you access to all NYLI electronic resources.
Read the DeweyBStrategic blog post for back story and information: