Oregon Legal Research Blog

Published on: June 18, 2009

Right to Honest Services: 18 USC 1346

By Laura Orr

…happened to rights to honest services, thefts of intangibles, and other legal puzzles? Apparently, quite a bit, so maybe I need to catch up. The entire text of 18 USC…

Published on: October 6, 2008

Online Law Blues: Life Without Lawyers (and Law Libraries)?

By Laura Orr

Inter-Alia is one of those blawgs that I almost never miss, though its guru, Tom Mighell, sure makes it easy to catch up on past posts and newsletters if…

Published on: July 30, 2012

Portland Airport (PDX) Naked Passenger vs. TSA Case

By Laura Orr

Now that WWDTM (Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me) has included this case in their radio quiz program, maybe I should catch up on blogging about it – especially since…

Published on: October 24, 2005

By Laura Orr

STATE LEGISLATIVE HISTORY GUIDES: For those who didn’t catch this on Boley Blogs, here’s a link to a marvelous compilation of state legislative history guides on the web….

Published on: December 26, 2012

Law eBooks are not pBooks: Sharing, Privacy, and Cost

By Laura Orr

Lawyers, law firms, and law libraries have historically shared books with each other. We now have some important eBook purchsing, borrowing, lending, and licensing issues to catch up on….

Published on: June 17, 2013

Access to Justice and Simplifying the Legal System

By Laura Orr

If Access to Justice (A2J) is to be something other than a catch-phrase or a pipe dream, lawyers, judges, court administrators, and law librarians need to think, plan, and…

Published on: September 20, 2013

A U.S. College Campus Free Speech Story Worthy of a Entry in “News of the Weird”?

By Laura Orr

…one not love News of the Weird, which I usually catch up on through my Funny Times subscription? (You can also check out the News of the Weird Archive.)…

Published on: November 12, 2014

Cite-Checking: A Thousand Points of Citator-Speak

By Laura Orr

…a citator. Or a citation index, if you prefer using more words. We use “citators.” Online citator service. From https://lib.law.washington.edu/content/guides/citators. Similarly, the noun I use as a catch-all is “citator”…

Published on: March 26, 2015

My, My, My: Auntie Mame Would Have Made a Hoot of a Law Librarian

By Laura Orr

…our favorite Auntie Mame (Rosalind Russell). (The rest of us fall about laughing. Auntie Mame was nothing if not a classy dame.) Start with these if you dare or catch…

Published on: November 8, 2017

UPL and Oregon’s New Public Law Library Employees

By Laura Orr

…discussion, catch up on the information that currently exists, whether it’s reading the reports by, or talking to, members of AALL Government Law Library section or the SRLN Law Librarian…