Oregon Legal Research Blog

Published on: June 21, 2013

Oregon Supreme Court: Haugen v. Kitzhaber: Death Row Inmate Right to Reject Clemency? Right to Die?

By Laura Orr

…whole case. (Or locate via “How to Find a Case Online – using free resources”) “… The Court noted that nothing in the text of the Oregon Constitution provides the…

Published on: August 6, 2008

Oregon Nov 2008 Election Ballot Measures (so far)

By Laura Orr

…elections. The minimum voting age for school board elections is 21, set by voters in a 1948 constitutional amendment. The voting age for state and federal elections was lowered to…

Published on: October 28, 2009

ORS 164.887 Declared Unconstitutional (Borowski): But Read the Fine Print

By Laura Orr

…a Class A misdemeanor. ORS 164.887 (set out below)…. We conclude that the statute does not violate any provision of the Oregon Constitution, but that it does violate the Equal…

Published on: September 4, 2020

Federal Civil Disorder Law and the Commerce Clause

By Lee Van Duzer

According to The Oregonian the federal government is using a rarely enforced civil disorder statute to prosecute at least two protesters in Portland (“Feds start leveling rare civil disorder…

Published on: October 23, 2006

By Laura Orr

…a bill of attainder is, as in “[n]o bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed” from Article 1, Sections 9 & 10, of the U.S. Constitution….

Published on: August 16, 2010

Oregon LUBA Opinion: Barnes v. Hillsboro & Port of Portland

By Laura Orr

…Wikipedia and more. 2) Read the U.S. Constitution. 3) Read the Oregon Constitution. 4) Read the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS). 5) Read the Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR)….

Published on: April 7, 2020

Covid-19 Metaphors: Express Train, War, Black Box, Oh My

By Laura Orr

…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:…

Published on: March 12, 2010

A Human Book, not an eBook: What if You Could Borrow a Legal Scholar (from your library) for an Hour?

By Laura Orr

…prejudice I feel is invisible. It’s more a stigma attached to the label,” Langley said in a telephone interview from the university campus. “We’re thought of as evil, callous and…

Published on: November 12, 2014

Cite-Checking: A Thousand Points of Citator-Speak

By Laura Orr

…label for Shepardizing. When I’m speaking generically, I use “citator service.” To take the “Xerox” out of photocopy, or the “Kleenex” out of tissue, I would just refer to it…

Published on: March 29, 2020

What I learned today: Why did HR 748 (2019) become the Two+ Trillion Dollar C-19 Bill (2020)?

By Laura Orr

…a substitute amendment to an already House-passed measure instead of just working off the Senate introduced CARES Act (S.3548) is the Constitutional requirement that revenue bills must originate in the…