PI Buzz is always worth reading. The latest tips include these:
Published on:
PI Buzz Skip-Tracing Tips: Yelp & Craig’s List
Published on:
Next time you say, “well, he must be guilty of something …”: Your Worst Nightmare
ABA Journal magazine: “Prisoner exonerations are at an all-time high, and it’s not because of DNA testing,” by Kevin Davis, September 1, 2014.
‘…. And even when he was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison, Awe continued to hold out hope that someone would get to the bottom of this mess.
“I suffered from the delusion that innocent people get to go home,” says Awe, who served nearly all three years before being exonerated. “I thought at some point someone would do an investigation. I never gave up hope even after being convicted.” [Link to full article.]
Published on:
Intellectual Property Casebook: Free Creative Commons Download
From beSpacific: “Open Intellectual Property Casebook“:
“Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain is announcing the publication of Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society—Cases and Materials by James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins. This book, the first in a series of Duke Open Coursebooks, is available for free download under a Creative Commons license. It can also be purchased in a glossy paperback print edition for $29.99, $130 cheaper than other intellectual property casebooks. This book is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks—from logos to novels to drug formulae—and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights. It focuses on the three main forms of US federal intellectual property—trademark, copyright and patent—but many of the ideas discussed here apply far beyond those legal areas and far beyond the law of the United States….” [Link to beSpacific post.]
Published on:
Updates (and venting) on PACER and AOC Removal of Court Documents
Major hat tips to the law librarian community for these updates!
If you want to vent, here are some who got there before you (as of this morning, 8/27/14):
1) US courts trash a decade’s worth of online documents, shrug it off: Ars technica article
Published on:
It’s not all online, folks: PACER Removes Many Federal Court Documents
So allow extra time for locating the documents you need. And remember, Time = Money.
“No longer available on PACER:
As of August 10, 2014 the following information will no longer be available on PACER:
Published on:
Burping at Lawyer: $1,500. Paying Attorney and Court Fees: Priceless.
Quotation of the week:
Clackamas County Commissioner Smith: “You can’t even burp at a lawyer for $1,500,” in “County board wrestles with legal funding,” 20 August 2014, by Shasta Kearns Moore, Portland Tribune (appears in the 8/26/14, print edition)
Published on:
Multnomah County Job: Executive Director, Office of Citizen Involvement
Job Title: Executive Director, Office of Citizen Involvement
Job Code: 9400-37
Opening Date/Time: Fri. 08/01/14 12:00 AM Pacific Time
Published on:
Notario Fraud Conference (Oregon State Bar CLE, 9/24/14)
Notario Fraud Conference at the bar on September 24, 2014 from 1:00 to 4:45 p.m. at the OSB Center. The conference is co-sponsored by the Oregon Chapter of American Immigration Lawyers Association and in cooperation with the OSB Consumer Law Section. Participants will earn 3.75 Access to Justice MCLE Credits.
Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown will give the keynote address.
“…. You will hear up-to-date information about the growing problem of dishonest notarios, and learn about the remedies available to victims. Notarios are nonlawyers who commonly provide immigration, tax, and other legal advice to members of immigrant communities. Victims of notario fraud often pay thousands of dollars, only to find out they will never get the results they hoped for because of dishonest notarios who promise results they cannot deliver.…” [Link to “Notario Fraud Conference” information at the OSB/CLE website.]
Published on:
Lifespan of CDs (NPR): How long do CDs last?
Surprise!: It depends…, but please do not make any assumptions that your kids will be able to view those documents or photos on your CDs (or DVDs) or other digital storage device.
From report [link to infoDocket post]: ‘But “there is no average, because there is no average disc.’
Hat tip to infoDocket.
Published on:
Oregon Texting as Hearsay, (alleged) Pimp (“promote prostitution”) Case (Court of Appeals)
State of Oregon v. John Elwood Causey, Jr., A148112, 265 Or App __ (2014) (Multnomah County Circuit Court, 100646533)
Excerpt from case:
“DE MUNIZ, S. J.