Law and the Multiverse: Superheroes, supervillains, and the law is a fun, new blog dealing with theoretical legal issues in relation to superheroes and comic books. The authors, licensed attorneys, apply existent laws to fantastic situations. For example, recent posts include “Supers and Social Secutiry,” “Costumes and the Confrontation Clause,” and “Supers and the Eighth Amendment.”
While playing around with our newly installed OSB BarBooks database and came across this mysterious Boolean search: variable: 4 and weights:7
While waiting for the answer to reveal itself, I went off to catch up with my law library blogs and ran across this excellent research tip post at the KCCLL (King County Law Library) Klues blog:
“Cheat sheet” comparing Lexis and Westlaw search syntax Research Tips
It links to:
It’s time to update my 2008 post on Researching Oregon Paternity Law
Depending on your specific question (and they do run the gamut!), here are some updated resources and links.
1) Oregon DOJ Child Support Program: Determining Paternity and more
Oregon territorial laws (Acts of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oregon (July 1849- May, 1950)) are now in Google Books.
The simplest way to find them is to type the words “oregon territorial laws” into Google Books.
You can also search “Oregon statutes” to find more.
Start the new year with Justice Bedworth, who cuts to the chase, and the chuckle, when it comes to electing judges.
“Electoral Processpool,” by Justice William W. Bedsworth
Excerpt: “…I’m pleased that my friends(2) have been impressed by the margin of my victory. With no opponent, I received 73.3% of the vote. Just call me Landslide Bedsworth.
Despite cries from legislators and others that It’s All Online, in Oregon at least (and we really do know it’s the same in other places), IT IS NOT ALL ONLINE!
For example:
Have you ever tried to find an Oregon city or county code without these dance steps?
Multnomah County Library has created a web-guide to Veteran’s Resources.
Other Oregon counties also have local Veteran Services offices, e.g. Washington County.
Lewis & Clark Law School Library’s “Law in the News” roundup, brings us this story:
“Law Libraries Struggle with More Patrons, Less Funding,” by Jose Pagliery, Daily Business Review, December 15, 2010
‘… Pro se litigants, who often can’t afford attorneys and instead choose to represent themselves, are quickly becoming the largest share of users of public law libraries, according to a statewide law library nonprofit. As lawyers more frequently choose to study case law from their desktop computers, common folk are shuffling into brick-and-mortar institutions.
For my regular readers who might want a break from the holiday madness and might (ho ho ho) be wondering about that $5.2m verdict win in the lawsuit filed by 2 law professors against “West publishing” (now a family member of theThomson Reuters corporation) here are a some links:
The funniest Comment: “Regardless of such appeals, these two professors should be given credit for finally finding a way to become millionaires from a state law treatise. That alone will make them living Gods among legal academics.”
Every blogger has a “Comment” policy, written or unwritten. As “public sector” bloggers, we have responsibilities (to readers and employers) beyond our own narrow personal preferences.
I really like the Rules for Commenting that are posted at the Multnomah Law Library’s Social Software Policy for Multnomah County Library Users, and generally adhere to them myself:
Excerpt: “Rules for commenting
Protect your privacy. Do not post personally identifying information. Young people under age 18, especially, should not post information such as last name, school, age, phone number, address.
