If you’ve been following the news stories about this case, you might want to read the full LUBA opinion:
MICHELLE BARNES, Petitioner, vs. CITY OF HILLSBORO, Respondent, and THE PORT OF PORTLAND, Intervenors-Respondent:
2010-011 Barnes v. City of Hillsboro (or link to Order from the LUBA homepage)
Question: WHO uses the Oregon county law libraries and for what purpose(s)?
Answer: Thousands of people use the Oregon county law libraries, because no other publicly accessible library has their specialized legal research resources, including databases, books, and professional law librarians.
More WHO answers: Government attorneys and other employees, metro-area residents, solo and small law firm attorneys who assist clients with limited income, pro se (self-represented) litigants, especially those with family, small estate, debt collection, landlord-tenant, and traffic court questions, middle and high school students, college, law school, and paralegal students, tax professionals, out of state and non-U.S. attorneys and self-represented litigants with legal interests in Oregon, and more all use the public (county) law library.
Read full, and official, text of measures at Oregon Secretary of State Elections Division (and the Initiative, Referendum and Referral search form).
Measure 70: home ownership loans for Oregon veterans
Measure 71: changes biennial legislature to annual sessions
Research guide on Solitary Confinement, by Ken Strutin, August 10, 2010:
Excerpt from introduction: “Solitary confinement is the most extreme penalty in the hierarchy of incarcerative punishment. 1 Depending on the institution, length of detention and purpose, this “prison within prison” 2 has been described in many ways: administrative segregation, communications management unit, 3 control unit, disciplinary housing unit, the hole, intensive management unit, lockdown, punitive isolation, segregation, SHU (special housing unit, special handling unit, segregated housing unit, security housing unit), and Supermax (Super-Maximum Security Confinement). 4 And these “inner prisons,” 5 have come under constitutional scrutiny by the way of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, 6 and procedural due process challenges to prison conditions and special status, e.g., death row or gang affiliation. 7
The selected materials collected here represent current research and thinking about the physical, psychological and legal implications of isolation as punishment, and the policy issues behind continuing this practice in the light of national and international standards and human rights declarations. Additional bibliographic resources are noted throughout….” (Link to full guide.)
If you thought blogs were dead, think again. They are evolving!
Robert Ambrogi, at his Law Sites, posts about some new and noteworthy blogs, including Legal Divas.
You can then flit over to these 15 Excellent Corporate Blogs To Learn From (from iLibrarian).
Those of you who, as I do, remember booting up from and formatting a floppy disk and slide rules, might enjoy this website: Obsolete Skills
(The loading a musket entry could use some input.)
A lot of us don’t think of Oregon as horse-country, but it is! Notwithstanding the fantasies (though, not mine – I’m more a chill out on the deck with a tall drink sort of person) of riding barebacked on the Oregon coast (still the People’s Coast from North to South), there is plenty of legal work for horse lawyers, aka equine lawyers.
If you need a “horse lawyer” you can contact the Oregon State Bar Information and Referral Service and ask for one. While you’re waiting for that first appointment, read a little about equine law: University of Vermont Equine Law website.
You might notice that horse law requires knowledge of civil procedure, contracts, sales, torts, bankruptcy, debtor-creditor law, and more! There can also multi-state disputes so the attorneys need to be knowledgable about other states’ laws and procedures.
Flynn’s Harp: Capital punishment, hanging reflections (7-28-10)
Excerpt: “… Only men have been executed in Washington and of the 14 who have gone to their deaths since 1949, 13 were Caucasian and one was Hispanic. Two of the last four men to suffer the death penalty chose hanging, the last being Charles Campbell in 1995.
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… Spenser, the young man who contacted me for the interview for his project, told me he and a friend had decided to do a paper on the death penalty and had searched the Internet but found “mostly factual, neutral stuff. It was difficult to find sites that gave us opinions.”
I shared with him the details of the June evening of 1963 when two other young journalists and I were among the group of about 35 people on hand for Self’s hanging, by tradition just past midnight, “the first minute of the new day.”
It’s not too early to start reading up on how the new health care law will affect you.
1) Healthcare dot gov is a good place to start.
2) If you want to read the act, visit the Gallaher blog post for some quick links: Read the Big Health Care Act. It includes a full cite to the act itself:
I love the Wisconsin State Law Library Newsletter and always learn something new when I read it. This month, August 2010, in addition to other useful legal research tools (e.g. CiteGenie), they had links to two handy-dandy published reviews / comparisons of Smart Phones. We can’t get enough of those, our mini-brains!
