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The Friday, 3/28/08, Oregonian story by Anne Saker, “Oregon patient sues over sexual abuse.” According to this story, Oregon “does not require medical professionals to report sexual abuse of sedated patients”:

‘A woman who was sexually abused while sedated for surgery shed her public anonymity Thursday to file a civil suit and to promise she would fight to require medical professionals to report sexual crimes against patients under anesthesia.

“I’m dedicated to seeing some change happen, doing whatever I can, because I think it’s necessary. Something has to change,” Katherine Edson said….

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Also in the Friday, 3/28/08, Oregonian , a story by Anna Griffin, Portland mayor’s race: Money woes linger from Dozono’s past, Mr. Dozono was quoted as saying a curious thing:

‘…. Ohno [Dozono friend and business colleague] had a wife and child in Japan, but also fathered a son with an American woman, Lori Lanning.

Ohno went to Dozono for advice.

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The past few days I’ve been bombarded with “creativity” of the best kind.

From a very interesting discussion, and a funny How We Won the Case story, with a local attorney about the use of creativity in the law (not as straightforward as it sounds) to these amazing video clips from the TED Conference (and the TED blog) – my brain is whirling happily. These two 18 minute clips were funny, scary, inspiring, and mind boggling, but you can be sure they all are:

How the Mind Works: Stroke of Insight: “Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.”

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Very, very cool: Geek Speak Women: “We help you find technical women to speak at your events”

Via Uber-Geek/Librarian Woman Nicole Engard at her What I learned today blog.

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(If you don’t have a WCCLS public library card, ask how to do this search at your own public library. For example, you can also find this magazine, and others, online through the Multnomah County Library)

Most people don’t know that with only a public library card, they can read, online and free, the product reviews (and everything else) that appear in Consumer Reports magazine. But you can!

Here’s how you do this at Washington County (WCCLS) public libraries (your own public library will have its own search strategy):

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It’s not always easy to find biographical information about state and local judges. Here are a few places to start, but be prepared to dig deeply:

1) OFFICIAL SOURCES

Oregon Judicial Department (OJD): for information on Oregon Supreme Court and Court of Appeals judges

Oregon Blue Book

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You may not know that the Battle for Public Access to GAO Documents (and its sister Battle for Free, Public Access to CRS documents) has been waging for a very long time (decades, in fact).

Here is a summary from WisBlog, “Exclusive Rights to GAO Legislative Histories Sold to Thomson West?” (thanks, Bonnie!), with links to relevant documents and related stories (and here is the one from the Law Librarian Blog).

Excerpt from Boing Boing story, “Did the US gov’t sell exclusive access to its legislative history to Thomson West?” :

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