“Ramsey County Law Library offers DIY help,” by Debra O’Connor, TwinCities dot com, 8/4/14:
Excerpt: “People who have never set foot in a courtroom, and might be wearing baseball hats and shorts, share the elegant, hushed Ramsey County Law Library with lawyers in suits.
They show up because they have legal problems, and here they can find help.
Nope. The ORCP is updated biennially so the 2013 edition online at the Legislature’s Court Rules website is the current one.
The next ORCP will be the 2015 edition of the ORS (Oregon Revised Statutes), which will appear online in early 2016 (after the 2015 Oregon Legislative session). Sometimes there are “out of cycle” amendments, but they are rare. (See previous blog post on the subject: Out of Cycle Changes to Court Rules.)
The authority on all of this is the Council on Court Procedures. You can read the current ORCP at their website and also track proposed amendments.
Excerpt: “Rotten World of Legal Citation,” July 31st, 2014 by sadavis:
In the past few years, the issue of link rot has become a growing concern in relation to broken links in legal citations, most notably in U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Two articles that discuss this problem in detail are:
1) Raizel Liebler & June Liebert, Something Rotten in the State of Legal Citation: The Life of a United States Supreme Court Citation Containing an Internet Link (1996-2010), 15 Yale J.L. & Tech. 273 (2013). Available at http://yjolt.org/sites/default/files/Something_Rotten_in_Legal_Citation.pdf (finding that 29% of websites cited in US Supreme Court opinions no longer worked);
An OSB editor takes to task users of the term “and/or” – and makes a practical suggestion on how to avoid driving your editor mad:
“…. So how do you avoid this problem? The answer, as the muttering editor will tell you, is to simply say what you mean. If you mean or, say or; if you mean and, say and; if you mean one or the other or both, say just that. For example, the defendant may be charged with unlawful arrest or malicious prosecution, or both….” [Link to the OSB Legal Pubs blog post and/or.]
Don’t let it be a disaster. Short and sweet, from iLibrarian:
What Happens if Your Library Systems Go Down?
For full-fledged disasters (floods, fire, earthquakes, hurricanes, shooters, bomb threats, bombs, building collapse, etc.) check with your managers, your organization, and your local librarian community for specific and recommended disaster planning checklists. (And if they don’t help, use The Google! Don’t let others’ failure to prepare become your disaster.)
Jim Calloway (Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Management Assistance Program) poses (and channels) the question:
“What if the clients decided to provide the templates for their legal work?”
Link to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) for more, e.g.:
“Cell phone book clubs: A new way for libraries to promote literacy, technology, family and community,” by David H. Rothman, published on July 27, 2014, LLRX (Law and technology resources for legal professionals).
Hat tip to BeSpacific.
“Free Exercise of Religion by Closely Held Corporations: Implications of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.,” by Cynthia Brougher, Legislative Attorney
July 23, 2014.
Hat tip to BeSpacific.
KGW story: Seven measures certified for Oregon 2014 ballot
“Measure numbers for the November 4, 2014, general election ballot will be released August 1,” according to the Secretary of State’s website. But it looks as if you can see those numbers, and other information, from this PDF, which I linked to from that website.
From the Secretary of State’s “Make or Change State Law website“, as of today:
“The number of valid signatures required to qualify an initiative for the ballot is based on a percentage of the total votes cast for governor at the last election:
