Oregon Legal Research Blog…not speaking out: In a Nutshell (example of a 4-step script follows): 1) Who IS your legislator? One quick way to find out is to use this Find Your Legislator…
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U.S. Courts of Appeals (Circuit Courts) Opinions Online
Not all U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals (or federal district or bankruptcy courts for that matter) make full (or almost full) runs of their opinions available at their websites….
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Legal Phrase Origins (with jokes): Don’t make a federal case out of it!
Did you every wonder where the phrase, “make a federal case out of it” came from? How about “hue and cry?” Or, “piercing the corporate veil?” You can find…
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“Kafka Comes to America”
Oregon Federal Public Defender, Steve Wax, has written a book, Kafka Comes to America, about his experiences representing Guantanamo prisoners and Brandon Mayfield (whom I blogged about, in…
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Speak Out to Your Oregon State and Federal Legislators
The Oregon Legislature’s website has a “Find Your Legislator ” feature. Now that you’ve found out who your state and federal legislative representatives are, let them…
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Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Adds Online Citations to Dockets
According to a recent announcement “[t]he United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is taking further steps to ensure that information derived from the Internet and cited…
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The Meaning of the Word “Accompany” in 18 USC 2113 (SCOTUS)
…where she died of a heart attack. Federal law provides a mandatory minimum 10-year sentence when a bank robber “forces a person to accompany him” during the robbery or flight…
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Free Federal Tax Law Research: Legalbitstream and More
…don’t know). But there are also some free sources. One of those is Legalbitstream: “Your Source for Free Federal Tax Law Research, Comprehensive and timely updated databases.” You can find…
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Court Dockets and the $40 Million Dollar Dope Slap
From LawSites (Robert Ambrogi): New PacerPro Service Automatically Retrieves and Delivers Federal ‘Free Look’ Documents Excerpt: “If I were to tell you that a new service could help you…
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Are You a U.S. Budget Hero? Take Control of the Federal Budget.
Test your money management skills – on a macro level: The Public Insight Network’s Budget Hero…