ABA Journal’s annual Blawg 100 list is ready for you. You can vote for one in each these 12 categories. (This is also an excellent opportunity to visit some new blawgs, for your own edification, of course.)
Court Watch
Law Biz
News
Law Prof Plus
Torts
In Labor
IP Law
Criminal Justice
IMHO
Niche
For Fun
Legal Tech
The Willamette Law School’s “United States Supreme Court News: Willamette Law Online” service, with case summaries and law updates, tells us about this latest U.S. Supreme Court decision:
“On December 13th, 2010 the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in the case sumarized below:
Copyright Law (The first sale doctrine of 17 U.S.C. §109(a) does not apply to goods manufactured abroad and later imported into the United States).
Starting in January 2011 Oregon Legislature will meet annually:
In 2011, opening ceremonies will take place Monday, January 10th. The Legislature will be in session for three days (until January 13th) to organize committees and adopt rules. The full-session begins on February 1st and expects to adjourn by June 30, 2011.
The November 2010 ballot measure 71 changed the biennial sessions (not to be confused with the word biannual) to annual sessions.
If you’re not keeping up with the National Inventory of Legal Materials, then you’re not keeping up with the effort to make all online U.S. laws easily accessible to everyone. (But you are forgiven. It’s definitely a project for the government or law wonk – at least until you need to do some legal research of your own.)
1) National Inventory of Oregon Legal Materials
2) National Inventory of Legal Materials Bug Tracker
3) Previous posts on the National Inventory of Legal Materials (and Law dot Gov)
Do you need to find a lawyer in another state? Do you need to find the laws of another state?
Think about it. If you’re looking for reliable legal information, a law library is one good place to begin, online or on the phone or in person.
I posted previously about other state’s law libraries:
Oregon’s Department of Housing and Community Services Oregon Homeownership Stabilization Initiative:
Homeowners can apply online for the Mortgage Payment Assistance program at oregonhomeownerhelp.org. Applications for the program will be accepted until Jan. 14, 2011.
Homeowners who need help immediately should call 1-800-SAFE NET (1-800-723-3638).
Life, which is not Black or White or On or Off, and that may or may not be “as it is written,” gives us much to think about if we are so inclined.
In Law: Anyone who teaches law, thinks about law, or is faced with the law has to think about the “What Ifs” in life.
Here is a simplified example of “What if” dialogues – and anyone who has taken a criminal law class or thought about crime and punishment in the face of actual crimes committed by actual people is familiar with this mental gyration:
If you’re interested in redistricting, among other places to learn about the process, attend the Oregon Legislature’s December 14, 2010, hearing:
SENATE INTERIM COMMITTEE ON RULES
AGENDA: ISSUED 12-02-2010
December 14, 2010
1:00 P.M., Room: HR C
900 Court Street NE, Room 453, Salem, Oregon 97301
I’ve written before about the difference between the public perception of “library work” and the reality of working in a library.
One needs to do little more than read library job descriptions to get the point. Here is a recent job posting for a Content Librarian in Washington County (Oregon).
I picked up the paper Multnomah County Library brochure on Finding Local Newspaper Articles and thought the information might be useful to my readers here at the OLR blog.
1) You can see their online list of newspaper and other media web resources.
2) A similar list is at the University of Oregon website, Finding Articles in Oregon Newspapers
