Published on:

By
The O(range) C(ounty) Bar Association monthly OC Lawyer Magazine, June 2011 issue, brings us another wise and wacky article from our favorite appellate court judge:
A New Kind of Custody Battle, by Justice William W. Bedsworth:
Excerpt:  “… And the adults you see in divorce court are usually going out of their way to be unlikable. I’m afraid with my background, I would have found myself sentencing most of those people instead of divorcing them.(3)
Continue reading →
By
Posted in: Other
Tagged: Justice Bedsworth
Published on:
Updated:
Published on:

By
More than 3,700 Oregon nonprofits have lost their tax-exempt status due to a Failure to File.
The Nonprofit Association of Oregon (formerly known as TACS) has posted the news.
DATABASE: You can search the IRS database, titled: Automatic Revocation of Exemption List (use those keywords in your search engine if this link stops working) or link to it from the main IRS website for Charities and Nonprofits.
Continue reading →
Published on:

By
Not all statutes are codified, that is, not all laws passed (by Congress and signed by the President) appear in the numbered sections of the U.S. Code.  Sometimes they appear in the code section’s note.
This blog post may not mean anything to you right now, but one day you’ll say “so that’s what Laura was talking about!”
I used to teach this to law students, using the Privacy Act of 1974 as an example, but a federal agency law librarian has written a useful and short memo on the subject so you don’t need me anymore (at least not to explain this!):
Continue reading →
Published on:

By
All Oregon county circuit courts (and most if not all county, justice, and municipal courts) allow free on-site (in the courthouse) access to OJIN.Few if any public libraries will subscribe to OJIN. It is not an easy database to use, due primarily to the fact that it was designed many decades ago for court staff and lawyers. Keep in mind also that few full-text documents are in OJIN. If you need copies of actual documents filed in a particular case, rather than just reading the docket entry, you would have to go to the courthouse file room or clerk’s office anyway, so remote access will not save you a trip to the courthouse.Some county law libraries have OJIN subscriptions, but not many, for the same reason – the actual documents are only at the courthouse so lawyers, litigants, or researchers may as well be right in the court’s file room when they do their searches – and where they can get expert search assistance.Note, OJIN is not like PACER, the federal electronic case filing database, which does have full text. But it too requires you to register – and there are charges, with some exceptions.

None of these public databases is free. It is very expensive to create and maintain good databases and people who use them are asked to help pay for them, even if all taxpayers contribute most of the money to support these databases.

Online databases, of any kind, are not free or even cheaper than paper files – they just allow greater access, at a cost. The price of remote access is high since you need skilled and experienced programmers and designers and network specialists who can build databases that everyone can use – not to mention the skills, hardware, and software that are needed to keep a database secure and properly backed up – and have 24/7 user support. These skilled workers cost a whole lot more than people who sort and file paper documents.

Continue reading →
Published on:

By
You can find lots of free telephone and address information from:
1) “The Internet” (your search engine of choice, e.g. google, bing, yahoo, etc.).  If you want to find a telephone number and you have internet access, search the business or agency or person by name, for example: if you want the Washington County (Oregon) Watermaster, type this into your search engine: washingon county oregon watermaster.  You’ll get up to date contact info (especially if you make sure you click on your search engine’s link to get the most current info).
2) Your local public library information and quick reference lines during their open hours (e.g. Multnomah County public libraries and Washington County public libraries) and don’t forget L-net, the statewide online reference service).
Continue reading →
Published on:

By

For those who might be wondering – as I still am:

1) You can find Resolution A at the Multnomah County website simply by entering Resolution A into the seach box.

2) You can also search Portland Online.  It’s not easy to find Resolution A, but you can find references to it. Let us know if you can find a direct link.  We should be able to presume that the Multnomah County Resolution A is the same as a City of Portland one, and everyone does refer to it as an “agreement between Portland and Multnomah County,” but … I can’t find a version with signatures from both entities.  It’s possible there was sign-off at a 1983 meeting or that things were done differently back then or simply that I don’t know enough about these inter-governmental agreements (IGAs), which is most likely.  On a regular workday, I’d just phone the city auditor’s office to ask.  We all have much to learn about how laws are made!

Continue reading →
Published on:

By
Excerpt: “”There is no comprehensive federal privacy statute that protects personal information. Instead, a patchwork of federal laws and regulations govern the collection and disclosure of personal information and has been addressed by Congress on a sector-by-sector basis….” (Link to full beSpacific blog post.)
Continue reading →
Published on:

By
The short answer is, “it depends on the business.”  You can bet that Jeffrey Archer worked on his novels while in prison, but I’m pretty sure Bernie Madoff isn’t “investing” (or whatever he called it – what’s a verb for running a Ponzi Scheme?) anyone’s money, although one can never be too sure with some people.
It also depends on the crime for which you have been incarcerated, the prison, and the state’s laws, regulations and prison policies.  It’s not inconceivable that if you invent, say, a better mousetrap, while incarcerated, you might be granted more leeway than if you invent a designer high-tech shiv (just sayin’), but whatever you do, please read up on the law, ask the prison authorities, and ask a lawyer.
Here in Oregon that means starting with the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) and the Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR), e.g. Chapter 291 Department of Corrections, perhaps including but not limited to 291-105-0015 Rules of Misconduct.
Continue reading →
Contact Information
The information provided on the Oregon Legal Research website and blog is for research purposes only. We do not provide legal advice, nor do we endorse any person, product, or company

Please do not include any confidential or sensitive information in a contact form, text message, or voicemail. The contact form sends information by non-encrypted email, which is not secure. Submitting a contact form, sending a text message, making a phone call, or leaving a voicemail does not create an attorney-client relationship.

Copyright © 2015 – 2025, Oregon Legal Research
JUSTIA Law Firm Blog Design