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Verisimilitude: Cops, Crooks, & Fictional Lawyers: Just the Facts, Ma’am
Writers: if you are not a cop, a lawyer, or a librarian (to name only 3 professions that appear a lot in fiction), please do your homework. There are…
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Law Librarian Named GPO’s Assistant Public Printer
Mary Alice Baish, formerly Director of Government Relations for the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), is a great friend to public librarians, too. You can read the GPO…
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Law of Elvis on His Birthday, January 8th
…CLE on “Elvis Law. The state and federal cases dealing with the late king of rock `n’ roll.” There were lots of news stories at the time of the CLE….
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SALC Race for Justice in Portland: Battle of the Law Firms!
This is Race for Justice weekend (Saturday, June 20, 2009), to raise money for the St. Andrew Legal Clinic (SALC), which serves low-income Oregonians in family law matters. The…
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People & Pet Food Law and Librarianship
I’ve talked in the past about food law (and food AND law) and had the pleasure yesterday of visiting the librarian at the Western Culinary Institute. This is clearly…
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Bite #7, Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: #7 (Bill of Rights, 40-42)
…the penalty for aggravated murder as defined by law shall be death upon unanimous affirmative jury findings as provided by law and otherwise shall be life imprisonment with minimum sentence…
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Stun Guns and Tasers in Oregon: Is it Lawful to Own a Personal ECD?
This question usually comes to the law librarian in this form: Is it legal (lawful) to own and use a personal stun gun (or taser) in Oregon? But related…
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Legal Challenge to 2007 Oregon Censorship Law
News stories: Oregonlive 4/29/08, story, by Ashbel S. Green, Suit filed to throw out law meant to shield kids: Excerpt “A group of book stores, health groups and…
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Can Convicted Rapists in Oregon Demand Custody or Visitation With a Child Born Through Rape?
A Law dot com news feed article: “Skadden Associate, Herself a Rape Victim, Dives into Akin Fray,” by Brian Baxter, Am Law Daily, 8/22/12, got me wondering about Oregon’s…