The July 2010 report can be found at the Portland (Oregon) City Auditor’s Office:
Report to the City of Portland Concerning the In-Custody Death of James Chasse, Prepared by Michael Gennaco, Robert Miller & Julie Ruhlin, OIR Group, 323-890-5425, July 2010
If that link doesn’t work (or this one) and if you have trouble finding the report on the website, please contact the Office of the Ombudsman, 1221 SW 4th Ave, Rm. 140, Portland, OR 97204, phone: 503-823-0144
The Government Printing Office’s GPO Access is becoming FDsys, and includes access to the Code of Federal Regulations (FR), the Federal Register (FR), the Congressional Record (CR), U.S. Statutes at Large (Stat), and the U.S. Code (USC).
See the full list at the FDsys homepage.
(Brace yourself for another name change in the not so distant future. It would not surprise me if FDsys finds itself with a challenge to select a stickier, more memorable name. And then again, if you say it over and over again, FDsys, FDsys, FDsys – it becomes fidsis, fidsis – oh, never mind.)
We are not able to answer reader’s specific legal questions, although we do try to respond when the answer has legal research value to other readers.
Suggestions:
1) Look for updates to specific Oregon Legal Research blog posts, by clicking on the subject Tags at the end of the post. Or, link to the Oregon Law Help website, which has excellent guides for real Oregonians with real legal problems and questions. (Or, check the Oregon Legal Assistance Resource Guide.)
No, there isn’t really an Oregon Metaphor of the Week Prize, but maybe there should be!
(Wikipedia describes metaphor. For the record, my latest, favorite uber-metaphorist is Harry Markopolos.)
Willamette Week (homepage), cover story, July 28, 2010: Oregon’s Scariest Cops:
There are a number of online Oregon public library directories:
Justice Bedsworth in August 2010 Criminal Waste of Space column in the OC Lawyer Magazine, wondering what it all means, gives a small cry in the wilderness of misused, mispronounced, and made up words. Humpty-Dumpty would have been proud.**
Excerpt: ‘… When someone asks you to “tell us in your own words what happened,” they don’t mean you should use YOUR OWN WORDS! They mean, “Use OUR words—English words, real words, words we’re all familiar with—in your own combinations, to tell us what happened.”
What in . . . heck . . . does it mean to say, “My level of pissivity was pretty high”? That’s not communication, that’s the Red Queen’s Tea Party.
If the jury has the collective brains of a flock of sparrows, and comes back with a question about what that means, some poor judge is gonna have to give an instruction on it. What’s she gonna say, “It means maybe I shoulda stayed in the DA’s Office”?…‘ (Link to full August 2010 article in the OC Lawyer Magazine.)
Note: Website addresses change (such is life):
1) The current Oregon Judicial Department website portal may change.
2) The OJD Family Law website may also change from this to something else. If these links don’t work, use a search engine and search for:
In my previous post, What is a “Valid Signature” on an Oregon Initiative Petition?, I linked to a document titled, APPENDIX 1 (165-014-0030): Sampling to validate state petitions. It’s a doozy of a document so you might want to take a look at it.
It’s not as painful or as long as the Wikileaks documents, but still, you might want to make some coffee and take a comfortable seat before proceeding.
It begins, auspiciously, as follows, which is reminder to keep your kids in school as long as possible and make sure they take plenty of math and statistics classes. And for anyone who thinks a “civil service” job is a walk in the park, that is not always the case. Someone(s) had to write this guideline/directive:
As a public transit rider (3+ hours/day, yet – yeesh), I loved these, so forgive the digression from legal research topics, though I do write a fair number of traffic law posts.
Awesome Bus Stops Around the World
Thank you to The Mighell Marker: A Legal Technology Weekly, for the excellent tip! To subscribe, just visit Inter-Alia and sign up — it’s free!
If you haven’t heard or used Zimmerman’s Legal Research guide, give it a whirl. You might find you use it again and again.
Andy Zimmerman has now created a handy-dandy ZRG blog, which is an excellent way to keep atop his updates to the ZRG.
Recent updates include these, but you can find them all, including an RSS feed, from the ZRG blog homepage:
