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Periodically we are asked about jury instructions for the Oregon federal district court. We have the following on good authority, though in the world of legal research, all is subject to variation, circumstances, and change:

1) The Oregon Federal District Court has not (as of this date) produced its own jury instructions. They do make use of the ones from the Oregon State Bar (see Oregon Uniform Criminal and Civil Jury Instructions), Ninth Circuit Jury Instructions, and check federal court Local Rules.

2 ) There are jury instructions for the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. These are also available in print and online, free:

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If you follow HIPAA laws, or if you just now want to, don’t forget the February 2009 amendments, known as HITECH, which stands for Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.

You can find more information at the following places (among others):

1) U.S. HHS Health Information Privacy website

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Whew. The same week I’ve been thoroughly absorbed by the, what I can truly call thrilling, Harry Markopolos book, “No One Would Listen,” about Markopolos’ 8-year battle to get the SEC and others to listen to his warnings about Bernie Madoff, I bring you these two stories:

1) The April 22, 2010, OPB broadcast of The April 18th edition of Philosophy Talk on Lies Faces, Feelings, and Lies (blog post on the program). The April 18, 2010, program had guest Paul Ekman, author of “Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage.”

Professor Ekman teaches (free, online) a one-hour program on reading micro-expressions – and more!

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We just heard that Terry Gross’s April 13th, 2010, interview with Jeff Shesol, author of “Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court was highly entertaining and educational (a team that is hard to beat).

Those of us in the OPB “listening area” can hear it tonight at 7 p.m.

Or, link to the transcript and podcast of Fresh Air, “FDR’s Losing Battle To Pack The Supreme Court”.

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Massey Energy Company was in the news back in 2009, if you recall, in this U.S. Supreme Court case, which you can be sure that everyone who votes for, against, or rails about having to vote for or against, state judges will be interested in reading:

Caperton v. Massey Coal Co., U.S. Supreme Court, No. 08–22, June 8, 2009

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GPO Access will soon become FDsys (GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys)). It is still the Government Printing Office website, but new and improved and with a confusing name, FDsys. Two out of three isn’t bad at all and the important part is good content and a friendly interface.

Two useful articles from LLRX:

1) The Government Domain – Congressional Documents on FDsys: the Basics, by Peggy Garvin, July 27, 2009

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Did you ever wonder what a U.S. Supreme Court law librarian job description looks like? Here’s your chance – and it’s a part-time job too (well, at least you’ll be paid for only 30 hours a week).

Direct link or link from Law Librarian Blog:

Provides complex, interdisciplinary reference and highly technical research support services; uses resources in newly emerging information sources in all formats; creates new methods and formats for assembling, organizing and delivering knowledge and information to Court constituencies; participates in the design, implementation, and maintenance of a complex relational database incorporating imaging, indexing, data migration and file transfer across the Court intranet and extranet; serves as an expert in all aspects of the evaluation, navigation, access and retrieval of worldwide online and Internet resources and services; works under great time pressures; performs collection development and related collections services duties; conducts tours, briefings and orientations; and undertakes broad programmatic responsibilities for long-term projects and programs which impact the overall effectiveness of the Research Department.

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If you need access to this document before the 9th Circuit updates their website, read on:

We had a question recently about the Ninth Circuit (U.S. Court of Appeals) “Standards of Review,” but when the attorney and I went to the Ninth Circuit website, clicked on Attorneys, and then clicked on “Standards of Review,” nothing happened.

So, I got on the phone with my Ninth Circuit Law Library Guru and asked the question posed in one of those wonderful Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar jokes:

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