Oregon Legal Research BlogWhen and how should a judge intervene when parties represent themselves in court?
Richard Zorza has published an article on the subject in the ABA Judges Journal, which you can link to from Zorza’s Access to Justice blog post:
Articles Posted in United States Federal Resources
Published on:
State Court Budget Cuts and Access to Justice
We may have 3 equal branches of government, but the Legislative Branch decides how much money each branch gets – and voters get to decide who the legislators are:
“Critics Say Budget Cuts for Courts Risk Rights,” by Jon Schwartz, NYT, November 26, 2011:
‘…“The justice system’s funding has been decreasing in constant dollars for at least two decades,” said David Boies, co-chairman of a commission formed by the American Bar Association to study court budget issues. “We are now at the point where funding failures are not merely causing inconvenience, annoyances and burdens; the current funding failures are resulting in the failure to deliver basic justice.”….‘ [Link to full article.]
Published on:
Electronic Recording of Conversations
Here is some additional information on our previous “right to record” blog posts.
From the Digital Media and Data Privacy Law Blog, May 2, 2011 by Elizabeth Spainhour:
Published on:
Free Federal Court Opinions in FDsys
Find free U.S. court opinions at the FDsys website. This is a pilot project and not yet fully populated, but take a look:
Reported on in:
Published on:
Free Federal Rules Ebooks
Free Federal Rules Ebooks, from the Legal Information Institute (compatible with iPad, Kindle, and more.)
Read: “About our Federal Rules ebooks.
If you know LII, you know free doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice quality. The books are based on LII’s federal rules collections, the premiere, free versions of the federal rules online. Our federal rules ebooks include:
Published on:
Locating Mailing Addresses for Military Personnel
A fellow law librarian compiled this list of resources for finding military personnel and enlistees and I’ve adapted it for this blog post:
Published on:
FBI Mortgage Fraud Website
As if homeowners didn’t have enough to worry about, we now need the FBI to step in with a Mortgage Fraud website.
Published on:
New Legal Research Guide – Appeals
The Washington County Law Library has a new legal research guide on appeals, available on our website in a number of places: the What’s New page; the Subjects Guide page; and our lovely Document Index. If you are ever at a loss to find a document on our website, the Document Index page includes every document uploaded to the website. You can also use the labels on the right-hand sidebar of this blog to find posts about appeals.
Published on:
“Twelve Nasty Work-From-Home Scams,” from Forbes
Forbes dot com brings us this story:
More scam and other consumer protection information from the:
Published on:
Oregon Concealed Handgun & Medical Marijuana Case on Journey to U.S. Supreme Court
Sansone v. Gordon and releated cases:
“Who better than the nation’s highest court to decide if medical marijuana users have a right to concealed handgun licenses?