Oregon Legal Research BlogI’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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Copyrighted State Legal Forms can Protect Consumers
While most government documents are in the public domain, not all of them are. Here’s a story about some copyrighted state legal forms and the state (Montana) that sued…
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Without Clothes in Oregon: the Art and Craft of Drafting Legislation
…documents on their public website.) And the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) can be searched online, too. People who don’t draft legislation or statutes (as opposed to the lawyers and judges…
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Are Oregon County Counsel Opinions “Public Record”?
…the public, but used infrequently because many were soon out of date and potentially misleading to those who didn’t work with these sorts of documents on a regular basis. If…
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Who are “the people?” What does it mean to be “born in the U.S.A.”?
…uncommon question in public libraries, law libraries, and in government documents libraries (even after the 2008 election). It’s also one of those questions to which we all know the answer…
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Oregon Patent & Trademark Depository Leaving the Lewis & Clark (Boley) Law Library
The Boley Law Library of Lewis & Clark Law School has officially withdrawn from the Patent & Trademark Depository Library (PTDL) program. The Oregon government…
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Appealing Your Case in Oregon: Legal Research Resources
…Filing and Drafting Oregon Appellate Court Documents .) We’re working on a more comprehensive research guide of resources for people who are [contemplating] appealing their cases to the Oregon…
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More on “What’s a Valid Signature” on an Oregon Initiative Petition
…a doozy of a document so you might want to take a look at it. It’s not as painful or as long as the Wikileaks documents, but still, you might…
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Oregon (OSB) Constitutional Law Section Spring 2010 Newsletter
…an unsecured wireless network to “leaving one’s documents in a box marked ‘take a look’ at the end of a cul-de-sac.” 2) Greg Chaimov provides an update on legislative action…
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“Center for Plain Language” and “Associations Unlimited”
…a nutshell: “The Center for Plain Language wants government and business documents to be clear and understandable .” ( Don’t we all!) 2) Also, do you remember the wonderful…