…affidavit forms and information: 1) Check with the applicable circuit court’s website for the form and/or information on filing a small-estate affidavit. Our circuit court does not offer a small…
Robert Ambrogi notes the passing of a legal publishing legend, Paul J. Ruskin: The Lawyer Who Took Down West’s Copyright in Court Opinions Has Died Excerpt: “It now seems…
…v. Bureau of Labor and Industries, (BOLI 3004) (CA A130422) (SC S056265) From the April 15, 2010, Media Release: Excerpt: “On review from the decision of the Court of Appeals…
…greater than can be claimed in Small Claims Court, so we limited our response to resources in Civil Court. Our first suggestion was to start with Nolo press self-help book….
Legal self-help is a bit of a crap-shoot unless you have official (i.e. court sanctioned and current) legal forms or the guiding hand of an attorney, but sometimes one…
…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…
1) For documents cited in Oregon court filings I recommend starting with the free, official, and online OJD Appellate Court Style Manual. You can link to that PDF, but…
Right to Counsel and the Right to Remain Silent AND the Importance of Reading the Full Case There are no shortcuts to thorough legal research: The Oregon Court of…
Not all pro se litigants make it through to an appeal to the Oregon Supreme Court, but some do, like Jim Lubischer and his neighbors in Orenco. The…
…Burleson. I blogged about this case on March 4th. The Oregon Supreme Court decided on Friday, 6/1/07, in State v. Burleson (SC S054377): “ The trial court, while correctly…
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