Previous Small Bites of the Oregon Constitution:
Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #1 and Bite #2 (Bill of Rights, 1-6)
Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #3 (Bill of Rights, 7-12)
Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: #4 (Bill of Rights, 13-20)
If you want to volunteer your time (vs. your money) but have only a few hours or days, here and there, don’t forget about this website for the Portland Metro Area: Hands On Greater Portland.
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:
If you are looking for AARP bylaws, either the national ones or for the Oregon Chapter, please contact AARP directly. The Washington County Law Librarian does not have them.
A couple of years ago, in response to a patron’s request, I sent out an email message to colleagues on a law librarian listserve asking if anyone had found an online source for AARP bylaws. No one had, but since then, I receive emails every couple of months from someone asking me to “please send me a copy of the AARP bylaws.”
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:
We came across this Oregon Department Human Services website, with a variety of legal links on the following topics:
1) Planning
2) Power of Attorney
3) Wills & trusts
4) Guardians & Conservators
5) Finding an elder law attorney
6) Disability issues
If you’ll allow me to go off-topic for a moment, the Portland Tuba Christmas (see here also) event is Saturday, December 13th, 2008.
This is definitely a Do Not Miss event for everyone – and I mean everyone – at least everyone who likes to laugh. We might even have snow!
I’ve blogged about this before (here), but it is worth mentioning again (in different words) – we get lots (and lots) of questions from people who would not have questions at all, or their legal reference questions would be quite different, if they understood the following. But we’re happy to explain as often as necessary – it feels very good when someone lights up and says, “I think I’ve got it!”
The Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) are different from the Oregon Laws. As I wrote in a previous blog post:
“… if you research “the law online,” please make sure you have the current, official, corrected, authentic, and updated laws of the jurisdiction. For example, the 2007 ORS is not the most current statutory compilation. You will also need to check the 2008 Laws (and Oregon case law, not free-text searchable free online, though individual cases can be found here) which won’t be included in the ORS until the 2009 enactments are codified and published in early 2010.”
The King County Law Library blogs about More People are Acting as their Own Lawyers, linking to this story:
“More people acting as their own lawyers: Courts clog up as Americans represent themselves, even in complex cases,” updated 2:28 p.m. PT, Mon., Nov. 24, 2008
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:
This question comes to law librarians with a variety of different back stories, but the gist of the question remains:
Question: What DO you do with a check that keeps getting returned for insufficient or non-sufficient funds?
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:
Rental property Habitability questions can be separate from Repair questions for landlord and tenants, but the two can overlap, as you might imagine.
Habitability questions we hear in the law library can be a broad as: what does a habitable apartment looks like? Or, as specific as: does an apartment have to have a window large enough for me to climb out?
There are a number of excellent sources of information on Oregon landlord-tenant law, online (e.g. this from the Oregon State Bar (OSB) and these) and in print (note: the OSB link has been fixed.) The latter print resources include Janay Haas’s “Landlord/Tenant Rights in Oregon,” which most public and law libraries have (unless their copies have been stolen – sigh) and some other landlord-tenant resources not online but available at your county law library.
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:
See the press release at the FTC: Marketers of Mystery Shopper Scam Settle with FTC
