Oregon Legal Research BlogThis week’s (1/10/07) Willamette Week’s cover story is titled “Loopy Laws.” For the “real thing,” go to the Oregon Legislature’s web sites, here and here.
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WW Cover Story: Loopy Laws
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Jury Duty at Jack Bogs Blog
Jack Bogdanski has been blogging about his jury duty at the Multnomah County Courthouse. It’s interesting to read and hear what people think of jury duty. I was first called to serve (sounds good doesn’t it) donkey’s years ago in Philadelphia, one of the first cities to use the One Day One Trial system. I loved it. When else can you get a day off from work, the freedom to read newspapers and magazines with few disturbances, and to be entertained (the jury foreman practically did his part as if it was a comedy standup routine – very effective). This was way back before the days of computers and cell phones (cripes, the typewriters were made out of wood back then!) – it was all very peaceful in that room, hushed even. For a future librarian this was bliss. I wasn’t selected that first time, but was many jury-calls later when I lived in New Haven. I still loved it (it was a personal injury case). I would be first in line if anyone wanted to turn it into a real job. Sure it’s tough, but someone’s got to do it.
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Jordaan Clark and OHSH Arguments
KATU reports on the Jordaan Clark and OHSU arguments in the Oregon Supreme Court on Tuesday, January 9th. Last line in the story:
“In the meantime, State Senator Vicki Walker has submitted a bill in the legislature that would effectively overturn the cap and remove OHSU’s protection from lawsuits.”
You can now search this 2007 legislative session’s bills, here.
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Personal Injury and The Cartoon
If you need a laugh about law, libraries, MP3 players, and personal injury, here you are.
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Web 2.0?
More and more librarians and IT people are talking about Web 2.0. If you don’t know what they are talking about, don’t feel bad. A lot of them don’t either, but a lot of them do! Here, and here, are a couple of places to look so you don’t feel completely out of the loop and these articles will give you ideas for questions the next time someone who seems knowledgable talks to you about Web 2.0.
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Zines and the Law
To me, zines are print blogs. I’m not talking about e-zines (they are just blogs – aren’t they?). I think print zines should be encouraged because 1) lots of creative young, and not so young, people are making zines, 2) zine creators are obviously still enjoying the tactile pleasures of print, paper, binding, and books. Isn’t this to be celebrated by bibliophiles? I love looking at zines – the artwork, the bookmaking, the writing (not always good but usually smile-inducing) are all pleasing and stimulate the bibliophile brain the way looking at art stimulates the artist in us all.
I don’t know of any print LAW zines, though. Surely there is a place for a law zine, isn’t there? The new-ish Oregon Appellate Almanac, a publication of the Appellate Practice Section of the Oregon State Bar, could have been a zine. The editors might have had a bit more fun with it if it had been. Not that they didn’t have fun, but I’m just saying they would have had MORE fun, if they could have had the freedom of creating a Zine. See, that’s the other thing I like about Zines – creative license and fun.
Anyway, if you live in the Portland metro area, here’s the Multnomah County public library’s Zine zone and their Zine Collection Party.
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Ode to the Oregon OSHA Code
From Oregon OSHA:
“For those who struggle to remember division distinctions, we offer:
An Ode to the Code (link and then scroll to the bottom of the OSHA web page 🙂
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Gavel to Gavel Coverage of Oregon Legislature
The Oregon Channel will launch on January 8th, 2007, when the 74th Legislative Assembly convenes. Their web page says:
The Oregon Channel provides gavel-to-gavel, unedited television coverage of state government and public affairs including:
Floor Sessions/Committees
State Supreme Court hearings
State agency hearings
Boards/Commission hearings
Capitol news conferences and special events
Other public affairs, civic and cultural programming, provided by partner organizations
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A Visit to the Oregon Court of Appeals
A fresh look at the Oregon Court of Appeals, from Shelley MacTyre, an Oregon lawyer, who has another blog, her legal one, here. (By the way, I’m not sure why but a lot of people fall down in and outside the Supreme Court building in Salem. Or, maybe I just know a lot of people who have. It’s a mystery. Maybe there is a heavy gravity canopy around the building.)
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Low-Cost Online Legal Databases
I could swear I posted this information before, but as the question keeps arising, there is no harm to posting it again. It’s also a chance to plug both the University of Washington Law Library and the King County Law Library web pages. Some of the links are naturally Washington State-based, but not all. Between them they have some of the best, most practical, and sometimes even fun legal research information web pages. Thanks for sharing!
Here’s the UW Low-Cost Legal Research Services on the Web guide.