(If you are reading this in 2011, or later, make sure the statute has not been amended or repealed.)
The text of 2009 ORS 153.058 Initiation of violation proceeding by private party:
“(1) A person other than an enforcement officer may commence a violation proceeding by filing a complaint with a court that has jurisdiction over the alleged violation. The filing of the complaint is subject to ORS 153.048. The complaint shall be entered by the court in the court record.
Justice Bedsworth isn’t the only one having fun on the job, while doing a GREAT JOB. When times are tough, you have to laugh – and keep up the fight:
Why should you read Justice Bedsworth? Who else would write a sentence like this in a judicial opinion? (Which also won him a Judicial Wisdom of the Year (2003) award.)
“There is no non-culpable explanation for monkeys in your underpants.”
For this month’s joyful ruminations from the Bedsworth bench:
This September 28, 2010, editorial in the Oregonian is worth reading:
Cutting off voters for no good reason: Oregon county clerks defend a 20-day voter registration deadline even though the early cutoff disenfranchises some first-time voters:
Excerpt: “Over the years, the county clerks that run Oregon elections have embraced vote-by-mail, online registration and other innovations that have helped build one of the nation’s most respected state elections systems.
As if parents didn’t have enough to worry about:
A beSpacific post: WSJ Investigates Extensive Web Tracking of Children Online:
September 17, 2010, Children Face Intensive Tracking, by Steve Stecklow:
Librarians and Libraries may look peaceful, but underneath all that quiet and deceptive-calm is a seething mass of email, chat, IM, and other reference Question-Answer activity that keeps us mighty busy.
But the big question, at least for some of us who participate in a lot of Digital Reference service (also called e-Reference), is how to identify oneself, that is, how to answer that dreaded question from utter strangers:
WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
It’s hard to believe, but there are still working people out there who need but don’t know about the Social Security Death Index.
So I’m doing my bit to spread the word one reader at a time.
I bet you don’t see those two subjects in the same sentence very often!
The Oregon Encyclopedia (The OE), an online resource of Oregon history and culture, is partnering with McMenamins on a series of History Nights.
1) Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 7:00 pm, Kerry Eggers presents “It’s War! Beavers vs. Ducks: The History of the Longest-and Greatest-Sports Rivalry in Oregon.”
One could fill a library with stories about redemption (in fact, most libraries ARE filled with stories about redemption, fictional and real), but the following came to mind recently when I spoke with a couple of young law library patrons about past transgressions and future promise:
1) Oregon case In re Beers, 339 Or 215, about a law student with a past.
2) Parade magazine, June 27, 2010, article about Richard Dyer: Judging the Value of Redemption, by Linda Himelstein.
I have written before about how you cannot prepare for a serious court proceeding using just the resources you find on the “free” web. (And, aren’t all court proceedings serious?)
That is, if you have an adversary who knows how to research law and legal procedure, if you will appear before a judge in a court of record (as opposed to, e.g. a small claims court or traffic court where you are not expected to know “the law”), if you want a fair shot a winning your case, then:
You need to do the research – and that means researching case law and statutes, And, that is just the BEGINNING:
(And, even in small claims and traffic court it helps to do your research.)
