Oregon Legal Research Blog…blog post: “Liberating America’s secret, for-pay laws” Previous OLR blog post on building codes and Veeck (Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress, 293 F.3d 791 (5th Circuit, 2002) …
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U.S. Supreme Court Library a Thriving Entity
…of Congress or other sources. Today, the Librarian manages the Court’s splendid collection of more than 500,000 volumes, directs a staff of 28, and provides irreplaceable research in support of…
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Justice Bedsworth and the Value of a Dollar
California appellate court’s Justice Bedsworth lets loose on people who don’t know the value of a dollar. Given that the U.S. Congress is once again rehashing…
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Authority of Federal Statutes in U.S.C. Section Notes
Not all statutes are codified, that is, not all laws passed (by Congress and signed by the President) appear in the numbered sections of the U.S. Code. Sometimes they…
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Farewell to the U.S. Statistical Abstract (on the budget chopping block)
…budget cut. 4) For more information, contact your U.S. Senators and Representatives: How to contact your representatives in Congress (the image takes a while to load so be patient)…
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Congressional Redistricting in Oregon and Beyond
…Congressional Redistricting, from a Columbia University Law School database: Draw Congress dot org : “A nonpartisan map of all 435 congressional districts in the nation has never been drawn….
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Oregon Single-Payer Health Care Conference, January 2011
…Cure for Oregon ?, by Stacy Brownhill: “State Rep. Michael Dembrow wants to establish in Oregon what the White House and Congress couldn’t do in last year’s healthcare reform effort:…
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Where Do Your Federal Tax Dollars Go?
…committed, but sometimes our communities get a lot of those dollars back, though only after Congress takes out money for fighting wars, national security, diplomatic missions, economic development, social security,…
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Oregon Voter Registration Deadline is OCTOBER 12TH, 2010
…account of sex. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” Documentary: Iron Jawed Angels Wikipedia Iron Jawed Angels and IMDB Iron Jawed Angels…
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Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports
The Legal Research Plus blog has a status report on 111th Congress H.R. 6026: “Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act,” Legal Research Plus, September 20, 2010, by George Wilson…