Oregon Legal Research BlogbeSpacific links to three Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports including the Impact of Unauthorized Immigrants on the Budgets of State and Local Governments.
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Book: Scalia and Garner on Judicial Persuasion
Good heavens, what next? A non-jurisprurient U.S. Supreme Court book that will possibly become a best-seller, at least among the wonkish: legal, political, librarian, and chattering all.
Thanks to Law Librarian Blog for the link to the law dot com (Legal Times, 11/27) story, “Scalia to Join Supreme Court Book Club.”
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The Oregon FISA (Brandon Mayfield) Decision
One easy way to keep up with Oregon legal news is to use Justia’s search engine on their web site. A recent search turned up this link to a Volokh Conspiracy post, The Oregon FISA Decision. (And do read the Comments.)
Since I’m in the legal research business, not the legal news business, I’ll gladly show you how to do this yourself:
On a regular basis (I don’t post here everything I read there) visit the Justia Blawg Search and type the word Oregon into the search box (do I also need to tell you to click “search? Nah :-) Easy as pie. (Their home site is Justia )
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“Insanely Useful Websites” for Tracking Government Transparency”
These really are, “Insanely Useful Websites” for tracking government (primarily federal) transparency. Thanks to the Law Librarian blog for the link.
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Military Status Verification (SCRA)
See March 18, 2010, OLR blog post for updated links.
If you need to verify non-military status for the purpose of complying with new SMCRA (aka SCRA – these are the amendments to the Soldier and Sailor Civil Relief Act of 1940), here is one place to go if you have a Social Security number. If you don’t have a SS#, here is a list of addresses for 5 branches of the military. Additional information about SCRA (Servicemember Civil Relief Act) can be found at the ABA web site, here. Let me know if you find other useful sources.