Citing to digital legal resources with specificity (and confidence in the URL’s permanence) is tricky business. Documents and websites have a habit of moving around cyberspace – a lot….
…take a look at these political party bylaws.5) Don’t forget to visit Ballotpedia if you’re a real election wonk! (Ballotpedia, Oregon) Previous Oregon Legal Research blog posts on elections….
…Interpret Statutes When interpreting statutes, does the Constitution require federal judges to act as agents of the incarnation of Congress that enacted the legislation or the present day Congress? That…
…the three main forms of US federal intellectual property—trademark, copyright and patent—but many of the ideas discussed here apply far beyond those legal areas and far beyond the law of…
…654 F.3d 210 (2d Cir. 2011) COPYRIGHT: (Whether the Copyright Act’s “first sale doctrine” freely permits resale of foreign works legally purchased overseas and imported into the United States as…
…us (the 3 Oregon county law librarians who answer email legal reference questions for L-net, the online Oregon Statewide Reference Service). My Lane County Law Librarian counterpart crafted a…
…federal statute that prohibits possession of a firearm by any unlawful user of a controlled substance….” [Link to OJD Media Releases .] Link to full (consolidated)…
For the record: The “honest services law” is 18 U.S.C. 1346, which is a federal (not state) law that is found in the U.S. Code. It has a complex…
This January 2011 MBA article by Mark Fucile on the “Hot Potato” Rule is either less or more interesting than you might imagine. It is less, if you…
…please (!) don’t just hand over legal forms to your neighbor. Instead, please (PLEASE!) offer to help your neighbor contact a local senior advocacy center, your county’s senior services, or…
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