Oregon Legal Research Blog

Published on: July 10, 2015

Internet Searching and Archiving: It Doesn’t Get Better; It Gets a Whole Lot Worse

By Laura Orr

Two recent articles worth reading if you want to research online and recall the past: Net for Lawyers: Google’s News Search is in Even Worse Condition Than we First…

Published on: July 17, 2015

Oregon Lawyer Ethics: When Lawyers Sue Lawyers for Ethical Breaches (The Bee, Editorial)

By Laura Orr

…from folks in the legal profession, suggesting that large law firms in Oregon get preferential treatment by the Oregon Bar Association over the small firms and individual practitioners. Comments like…

Published on: October 18, 2015

Amazon Sues “Fake” Reviewers (follow-up lawsuit) in King County

By Laura Orr

…contract, unjust enrichment, and other causes of action. BBC News story: Amazon targets 1,114 ‘fake reviewers’ in Seattle lawsuit Geekwire has a copy of the complaint in its article: “After…

Published on: November 2, 2015

Too Big to Sue, (new-ish) Tort Reform, Arbitration Clauses, the Supreme Court and You

By Laura Orr

If you haven’t seen these 2 articles in your news feeds then you’re not doing your consumer law education reading: New York Times articles, by Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Michael Corkery, November 2015:…

Published on: February 27, 2016

Oregon State Bar (OSB) Discipline System Review Committee Reports

By Laura Orr

…news stories about the Review using these words and limiting your search to the past year (unless you want previous years’ reports): Discipline System Review Committee Oregon State Bar Currently,…

Published on: October 10, 2016

Oregon Women in History: ‘We Can’t Do Much Worse Than the Men’ (The Atlantic)

By Laura Orr

…this on Yahoo News about 1920 Yoncalla, Oregon: ‘We Can’t Do Much Worse Than the Men,’ The Atlantic, October 9, 2016. You can link directly to the Atlantic Monthly…

Published on: March 16, 2017

Scotland Buys the U.S. Declaration of Independence for a Song: Scoot Your Votey McVoteface

By Laura Orr

…Eggsit, Scoot, Votey McVoteface, and more: “Scotch Eggsit? Rebranding the referendum,” by Philip Sim, BBC Scotland News, 15 March 2017, or just search for the words: Scotland Independence Brexit (It’s April…

Published on: October 2, 2007

The Law Librarian and the FBI: A Shaggy Dog Tale in Six Parts: PART SIX

By Laura Orr

…theft of someone’s front garden pink flamingo. Stolen pink flamingos make the news, but not stolen books, unless there are lots of them and there is someone to blame, usually…

Published on: February 28, 2022

Madcap Baseball (aka Rayball) is the (Law Librarian’s) Way of the Game

By Laura Orr

…an egalitarian pick-up softball league since 1997, but he prefers writing emails about the games to playing in them,” by Joanne Furio, Feb. 27, 2022, at the Berkeleyside (nonprofit news,…

Published on: May 17, 2007

Cops and Librarians: Two Views of Creative Punishment

By Laura Orr

I sometimes ask my neighbor teenager friends how they might punish someone for a particular crime or wrongdoing (they keep up with the news almost as much as I…