Oregon Legal Research BlogThe Law Librarian blog posted a very funny video today from the Onion News Network titled Congress Forgets How to Pass a Law. As an added bonus, the video…
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Congress Forgets How to Pass a Bill
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Law Library of Congress: Laws on Plant Patents and Propagation
Since Portland has also seen the peak of its cherry blossoms, we’re sharing the Law Library of Congress’s seasonal post “Stumpy’s Legacy: Laws on Plant Patents and Propagation.” “The…
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Another Way to Search Bills In and Across Multiple State Legislatures and in Congress
Scout is a useful tool for researching subject-specific bills in state legislatures and in Congress. There are subscription databases that do this, too, but Scout is free….
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Legal Research at the Library of Congress
The Law Library of Congress has revamped their web page. Law librarians and legal researchers get excited about the darndest (darnedest? 🙂 things….
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Some (Very Funny) Rules of Dueling (In Custodia Legis)
If your latest novel, or dinner table conversation, includes a duel, here’s a useful and humorous blog post for you from In Custodia Legis, a Law Librarians of Congress…
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Research Foreign and International Law Like a Pro
…1) NYU’s GlobalLex (sample Researching Canadian Law) 2) You can also visit the Law Library of Congress 3) You can search the web using keywords like legal research guide [country name]…
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Free Exercise of Religion by Closely Held Corporations: Implications of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (CRS Report)
“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….
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Privatization of Access to Taxpayer-Funded Government Documents Continues
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…
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A Declaration of Conscience: Senator Margaret Chase Smith on the U.S. Senate: “the Four Horsemen of Calumny-Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear”
…debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity…. “THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF CALUMNY” Yet to displace it [the…
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Oregon Covid-19 Resource Page (Senator Merkley)
Oregon’s Senator Merkley has updated his Covid-19 Resources page with information about the 880 page bill (HR 748) that was signed into law on March 27, 2020 (P.L….