State Courts and Oregon State Government offices will be closed on Friday, January 18, 2013, and Friday, April 19, 2013, and Friday, May 24, 2013.
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Handbook for Oregon Jurors
Do you have to write a research report on jury service? Were you or a family member summoned for jury duty?
Are you just curious about jury duty and not sure where to begin reading about it?
The Oregon State Bar has a Handbook for Jurors and it’s a good place to begin. Your county courthouse is another.
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Law of Elvis on His Birthday, January 8th
According to some reports, Elvis was one of the least litigious superstars in the U.S. and maybe the world, and that most Elvis litigation occurred after his death. Whether or not that is so, we still have to say to the King of Kings (ur, sorry, Bruce):
In 2011, Legal Aid of East Tennessee held a CLE on “Elvis Law. The state and federal cases dealing with the late king of rock `n’ roll.”
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Should the U.S. Constitution be Untouchable?
Is rewriting the U.S. Constitution really that much of a “dangerous idea?”
See, e.g. Op-Ed Contributor, Louis Michael Seidman, “Let’s Give Up on the Constitution,” New York Times, December 30, 2012.
If business and labor models are changing, why aren’t government models?
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Justice Bedsworth Fishes for a Bond with OR-7 (Oregon’s favorite wolf)
While lamenting 1,600 pounds of fish who lost their lives in a motor vehicle accident, Justice Bedsworth tries valiantly to wrap his mind around Oregon’s favorite lone wolf, OR-7, who may or may not have wandered into California for the same reason others have, i.e. in search of a mate or at least a one-moonlit-night-stand with a California hot number, perhaps the infamous Jerri “Moonbeam” Brown-Wolf, if she could be found. (But alas, it appears our beloved lone wolf may be destined to remain one, or at least without a California mate.)
Now about those fish …. From Justice Bedsworth, in his January 2013 A Criminal Waste of Space article, “The Parable of the Wolves and Fishes“:
‘…. So one of our neighbors here in Orange County, Dina Kourda, wants the City of Irvine to install a memorial plaque for the sixteen hundred pounds of fish. On behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, she has filed a request with Irvine to memorialize the dead fish with a monument where they died. The plaque would read, “In memory of hundreds of fish who suffered and died at this spot.”
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New Year’s Resolution: Understand Oregon’s Property Tax System
This year (2013), the City Club of Portland will be studying “Oregon’s Property Tax System.” The bibliography to that future report will be useful indeed.
(City Club of Portland has produced many excellent, readable, and debatable (in the best sense of the word), reports.)
In the meantime, here are some other Oregon Property Tax System reports to get you started:
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Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
“The Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863A Transcription
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Oregon Courts: 2013 Holiday and Furlough Closures
Visit the Oregon Judicial Department (soon to be the Oregon Judicial Branch) for updates on court holidays and closures.
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Post or Perish: A Cloudy Legal Environment
The blog Post or Perish gives the reader a tantalizing snapshot of some of the social-media legal issues that occur in our digital (zeros and ones) world.
Thank you to Inter-alia’s Blog of the Day tip (from 12/11/12)
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89 Practice Tips for the Oregon Lawyer
The Oregon Law Practice Management blog has a 2012 Year in Review list of the year’s tips.
This is painless continuing legal education – and stay tuned for the 2013 tips.