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IT’S CALLED OSB BARBOOKS.
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Where are the 2010 and 2011 Oregon Revised Statutes?
This is the time of year when we start getting questions from people wanting the 2010 and 2011 Oregon Revised Statutes.
I’ve blogged about this before so just substitute the years 2010 (or 11) for 2009 (or 10) …. You can also read this post: Where is the 2009 ORS? Hold Your Oregon Horses ….
Of course we still don’t know if there will be even-year ORS compilations or if the Legislature will still publish the odd-year ones with an even-year session law compilation. We’ll wait to hear from Legislative Counsel on that decision. They are the ones who do the almost thankless job of codifying the Oregon Laws. (But we thank them!)
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Justice Bedsworth’s (Typographical) Stink-Bomb Misses the Strike-Zone
The O(range) C(ounty) Bar Association monthly OC Lawyer Magazine, once again brings us Justice Bedsworth with a cautionary tale (and a guffaw):
“Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Typos . . .,” by Justice William W. Bedsworth
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New Legal Research Guide – Estate Planning
We have a new legal research guide on Estate Planning available on the law library’s website. You can find previously posted information on estate planning through the “estate planning” tag at the bottom of this post or through this link. Along those same lines, The Oregonian published an interesting article last Sunday, March 27, on estate sale fraud:
“Complaints to the DOJ concerning estate sellers, secondhand stores and auction houses have doubled since 2008. Among those lodging complaints are an elderly widower, a woman with breast cancer trying to fund her care and adult children selling the family home. All told the state they were never paid for heirlooms, which were either sold at garage sale prices or simply vanished. But when things go wrong, many people don’t know where to turn — and don’t want to shell out as much for legal fees as they’re looking to recoup.”
Consumers with complaints about Oregon businesses, including estate sellers and auction houses, can contact the Financial Fraud/Consumer Protection section of the Oregon Department of Justice’s Civil Enforcement Division. The Attorney General’s Consumer Hotline (1-877-877-9392) is available between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30 pm. Consumers can also search the DOJ’s consumer complaints database for complaints filed after January 1, 2008.
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Oregon Legislative History: Exhibits and Minutes
If you need to know the legislative history of a Oregon statute, please remember:
1) Prior to 1995, Legislative Minutes and Exhibits were microfilmed. The microfilm isn’t complete, and won’t include many other documents that are required when you need to compile a thorough legislative history, but it is still a very useful research resource.
2) From 1995 – 2007: Legislative tracings and minutes are on the Oregon State Archives website. Legislative bills, session law, and some calendars are on the Legislature’s website.
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100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March 25, 1911
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Wikipedia entry) changed the lives of working people, at least in this country, and at least for a while. (Further tragedies needed to occur for other workplace safety improvements to be made.)
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Revised Link to the “Revised FAPA Benchguide 2006” (and other Oregon domestic violence resources)
I recently had a question about restraining orders, which sent me looking up information about Oregon’s Family Abuse and Prevention Act, known as FAPA. In the process, I realized that our blog’s link to the useful “Revised FAPA Benchguide 2006” had moved far, far away – well, just to the Oregon Judicial Department’s FAPA forms website. Once there, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the link to the .pdf.
The State of Oregon FAPA forms on that same page may also be of interest, although it is important to first see if you local circuit court has FAPA forms specific to your county. If they do exist, they are usually found in the Family Law section of the website. For instance, the Washington County Circuit Court’s restraining order forms can be found here.
Other important and related resources concerning restraining orders, abuse prevention, and domestic violence include:
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Small-Estate Affidavits
We frequently have patrons requesting small-estate affidavit forms (it was also a very popular request when I worked in Texas). Here are a few places you can find small-estate affidavit forms and information:
1) Check with the applicable circuit court’s website for the form and/or information on filing a small-estate affidavit. Our circuit court does not offer a small estate form, but they do provide information on filing an Affidavit of Claiming Successor, including the related statutes. Marion county’s circuit court does provide a small estate affidavit form, as do Deschutes and Clackamas (be sure to check your county’s circuit court website as I did not check every county).
2) A common referral for frequently-used forms is the Stevens-Ness Law Publishing Company. They sell Oregon-specific small-estate affidavit forms for both testate and intestate estates (in paper and electronic formats).
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Oregon Superseded ORS Digitization Project: 1953-1987
The Washington County (Oregon) Law Library is scanning the 1953-1987 Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS).
These particular volumes are also known as the “Gutbusters,” because the pages are filed in 7-10” gut-busting (to lift) loose-leaf binders.
Read the project description and view a sample 1955 Chapter:
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Farewell to the U.S. Statistical Abstract (on the budget chopping block)
It will not be continued online, although there is talk about a pilot project for publishing some of the data, not all of which is available to the public even if researchers wanted to make their own data compilations.
1) What is (or was) the U.S. Statistical Abstract? (You may remember the book, but the data is (or was) also online.) (See the Wikipedia entry also.)