Elections: An informed citizenry, democracy at its best:
There are two local option levies on the ballot in Washington County, Oregon:
The county has an information website and has scheduled many Service Fairs around the county where you can get answers to your questions and talk to county employees and officials about the levies.
As a blogger with a busy “day-job,” I really appreciate it when others do the research for me.
Oregon attorney blogs and consumer and financial law websites offer a wealth of useful information, e.g.
1) Foreclosures: Attorney Ben Knaupp has been blogging a lot about foreclosure law, including an 8-part series on: Dealing with Foreclosure in Oregon, that he ran in October and September 2009.
Our favorite Justice William W. Bedsworth (not to be confused with Justice William T. Bedsworth), regales us with tales of European travel in his September 2010, Criminal Waste of Space column, in the OC Lawyer Magazine:
The Justice visits his first biergarten and lurches about on a rooftop tour, in harness — the mind boggles, so read the column yourself – and laugh:
The Same Only Different, by Justice William W. Bedsworth:
Excerpt:
I have written often about the wonderful Oregon Legislative Liaisons, but sadly they are no more.
Instead, you need to visit the Legislature’s Support and Contact Information website, where you will find lots of contact information.
You can also email Legislative Help, or call 1-800-332-2313 and leave a message.
The OSB Or Con Law section’s Spring 2010 newsletter is an eye-popping 73 pages – that’s not a newsletter, that’s a book!
If you want to immerse yourself in some heavy, but interesting reading, here’s a link to the newsletter’s PDF. (I can’t promise that the link won’t change, so remember the link to the OSB Constitutional Law Section website.)
There is a lot of information in this issue:
Craig Colby v. Karen Gunson, State Medical Examiner (SC S057691) (August 26, 2010)
Excerpt (from August 26, 2010, OJD Media Release):
“On review from the Court of Appeals in an appeal from the Marion County Circuit Court, Albin W. Norblad, Judge. 229 Or App 167, 210 P3d 917 (2009).
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Jury Instructions Committee has completed an extensive revision of the Ninth Circuit Manual of Model Criminal Jury Instructions. The 2010 edition of the Manual contains a number of new instructions. It is updated with cases and statutes through July 2010.
The 2010 edition includes renumbered instructions from the 2003 edition; a conversion table is posted online and provides equivalent jury instruction numbers in the 2003 edition.
There are excellent consumer law websites all over the web, but sometimes you just need the local touch and a local story. This is because a lot of consumer law is local, that is, you need to know state and local law, practice, and procedure in order to determine your rights.
I love this story – and it is so familiar to a public law librarian: many, many people come into the law library to ask, “Where and How Do I Appeal?”
Complete answers to questions people ask are often as elusive as it almost was here for Laura Gunderson – and kudos to her for persistent research, which is often exactly what one has to do – persist, persist, persist. But you can see why legal solutions so often elude those without the aptitute, resources, and time to pursue fairness, if not justice.
Steve Duin’s column in today’s Oregonian (8/24/10) points us to an interesting report on the Oregon business climate:
Taxes feel different here, Monday, August 23, 2010, Steve Duin, The Oregonian
Excerpt: “Politicians, economist Joe Cortright says, tend to view recessions as Greek tragedies: “If something bad is happening in the Oregon economy, it’s because the gods are punishing us for our sins.”
“A 52-year-old Aloha man was arrested Friday night for firing a gun at his own wall after his neighbors complained about him doing loud bird impersonations.”
You can’t make this stuff up! This is why you should always have friends in code enforcement, emergency rooms, and law enforcement. They have the most amazing stories and make even the crankiest amongst us feel downright normal:
A recent story reported on at OregonLive, from the Hillsboro Argus:
