Even if you sing more off-key than the “karaoke” guy last Thursday rush hour at the SW 2nd & Alder (PDX) bus stop (keep your night job!), you can still:
Have your say about the ATL Top Ten Law Song picks (Above the Law homepage) (from Law Librarian Blog)
Excerpt from Law Librarian blog:
Another type of law library question that we, and public libraries, start hearing as the weather gets colder:
Where do I find the law that that says power companies cannot turn power off if you are very poor, have children, or are elderly?
Quick answer, if the utility has been or soon will be turned off:
It’s that time of year when we start thinking we should know this, but we don’t! And that is why you have Librarians (and the Internet Tubes 🙂 Of course in an election year when everyone seems to want to CHANGE (yeah, yeah), make sure you get that TIME change date from a reliable source, e.g.:
NASA or those NIST people (but make sure you’re in the right year – yikes)
And then there is the Official time.
Nimrod: Oregon Frontier Courts
An interesting book, by Oregonian Ronald Lansing, to add to your rainy weather reading stash:
Nimrod: Courts, Claims, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier
A book review is in the print Lewis & Clark Law School Environmental Law journal, volume 38, #3 (soon to appear online). Other reviews here and here.
An interesting article from a recent Oregon Law Review:
A Healthy Food Tax Credit, Not a Fat Tax
Chris L. Winstanley (J.D. 2008, Oregon) has published Comment, A Healthy Food Tax Credit: Moving Away From the Fat Tax and its Fault-Based Paradigm, 86 Or. L. Rev. 1151 (2007).
If you haven’t tried out the streaming video at the Oregon State Bar’s (OSB) website, now’s the time to make yourself comfortable and settle in for 30 minutes of some good old fashioned law-learnin’. Think how much smarter you will be afterward!
Topics include animal law, small claims, landlord-tenant law, police stops, charitable giving, legal assistance for military personnel, consumer bankruptcy, immigration law, bicycle law, and MORE.
There are no bells and whistles with these videos, and you might need some coffee or tea to give yourself a boost, but you will be so much wiser after listening to these. And they are only 30-minutes, which I know is a lifetime in this world of 25 second u-tube moving pictures. But lower your heart rate, live longer, impress your friends, your dates, your parents even!
I haven’t posted lately any of our law library’s reference questions. Here is one and others will follow:
Where do I find the statute of fraud?
1) If you are asking out of curiosity:
Statutes of frauds are laws that specify when contracts must be in writing. An Internet search will give you basic information, e.g. at wikipedia.
In Oregon specifically, you will find references to various statutes of frauds in the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS). Use the online index to the ORS to locate which section you need or you can look in the print edition, available at many public libraries. Further research into how those laws are applied can be done by looking at the annotations to the statute. These annotations are in the last volume of the ORS.
# 6 is a pretty big bite, so pace yourself (or read it with a leisurely cup of tea/coffee 🙂
Previous Bites:
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)
Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: #5 (Bill of Rights, 21-30)
Today’s Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #6 (Bill of Rights, 32-39)
Another hitherto little noticed section of the ORS (see also the Jury “Duty” post about ORS 10.235): this time, it’s ORS 153.058, Initiation of violation proceeding by private party.
(Perhaps I should have my readers working on the ORS instead of the Oregon Constitution?)
See the story in the Willamette Week, by Corey Pein, 9/3/08: DIY Justice: In Oregon, The Man lets you be The Man, too. Here’s how to play traffic cop.
I’m not the only one who found this story (also in the Oregonian, print on 8/30/08) interesting – see Jack Bog’s Blog post (and Comments). And this is not the first jury-duty story I’ve read recently about jurors in Oregon not showing up, and what happens when they don’t. (My previous posts about jury service here and here.)
Text of ORS 10.235: Additional jurors; selection; notice.
(1) When an additional number of jurors is needed for a jury service term in a county because the term jury list for the term becomes exhausted, or in the opinion of the presiding judge for the judicial district is likely to become exhausted, before the end of the term, additional jurors may be selected and summoned as provided in this section.
