Oregon Legal Research BlogThis 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…
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Oregon Legal Ethics “Hot Potato” Rule
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Legal Publisher Vendors in Town (Portland, OR)
While the law librarians are in town (Portland, Oregon) for the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting in Portland, July 12th to July 15th, anyone may…
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Oregon Babysitting, Home-Alone: Parents, Teens, and Children and the Law
See recent updates (e.g. 2/10/11, 6/15/09 ), but also click on the Home Alone label in the sidebar. The most frequently sought and read posts here at this…
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Babysitting and the Law
** Please see the June 2009 update (or click on the Babysitting label). ** This is the time of year when the babysitting questions appear with increasing…
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Leaving Children Home Alone (in Oregon) – Update
See recent updates (e.g. 2/10/11 , 6/15/09 ), but also click on the Home Alone label in the sidebar. Some who just left me a Comment on…
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Book: Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg to Gates
…to spread cheap reprints of popular sheet music. In the 1950s, a pirate music label named Jolly Roger issued recordings by Louis Armstrong and other jazz greats from LP’s that…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
In honor of Thanksgiving, here are some holiday- related legal stories. Presidential Turkey Pardoning The presidential tradition of pardoning a turkey at Thanksgiving has an interesting history. You…
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When is it criminal neglect to leave your children alone?
See recent updates (e.g. 2/10/11 ), but also click on the Home Alone label in the sidebar or the bottom of this post. Some of the most frequently…
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Covid-19 Metaphors: Express Train, War, Black Box, Oh My
…that local arrives at its final destination, it may be wise to label all this research—preprints, peer-reviewed papers, and for goodness’ sake, pronouncements from Donald Trump— with a black-box warning:…