Oregon Legal Research BlogRepeat after me: Don’t believe most of what you hear, old wives do tell tall tales, and THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SINGLE, COMPREHENSIVE criminal records…
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To Catch a Thief: Searching Criminal Records
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How a Prison Inmate Became a Jailhouse Lawyer and Changed the System (New Yorker)
…library, and eventually taught himself enough criminal law to become one of the most skilled jailhouse lawyers in the country….” [Link to New Yorker article.] Hat tip to Longform….
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Is there a 2014 Oregon Rules of Civil Procedure (ORCP)?
…(See previous blog post on the subject: Out of Cycle Changes to Court Rules.) The authority on all of this is the Council on Court Procedures. You can read the…
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Next time you say, “well, he must be guilty of something …”: Your Worst Nightmare
ABA Journal magazine: “Prisoner exonerations are at an all-time high, and it’s not because of DNA testing,” by Kevin Davis, September 1, 2014. ‘…. And even when he…
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Beyond February 14th: Love, Adultery, and Madness in American History
If you think you live in the most interesting of times, you are not reading enough history – or not reading the right wild and crazy stories that…
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Don’t Second that Motion: Oregon Public Meetings Manual and Parliamentary Procedure
People who know absolutely nothing else about parliamentary procedure always seem to know absolutely, positively (!) that motions have to be “seconded.” It’s not necessarily so. You can look…
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Oregon Rules of Civil Procedure (ORCP): Effective Dates
…Procedures!) “Rules of civil procedure are promulgated in December of even-numbered years, submitted to the legislature at the beginning of the (odd-numbered year) legislative session, and become effective January 1…
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Oregon Council on Court Procedures (OCCP): Legislative and Administrative History of Oregon Rules of Civil Procedure (ORCP)
I’ve blogged before about the very useful Oregon Council on Court Procedures website. For those who remember plowing through the print versions of these documents … this website…
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ALL Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Change Dec 1, 2007
Sources of information on the FRCP: 1) The U.S. Courts Rulemaking pages. 2) The U.S. Courts homepage on rules of practice, procedure, and evidence. 3) Cornell Law School (Legal…
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Read the 180 Day Rule Regarding “Required disclosure of customer communications or records”
…less, only pursuant to a warrant issued using the procedures described in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (or, in the case of a State court, issued using State warrant…