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Courthouse Dogs: A New Use for Service Animals
About Courthouse Dogs: Mission: “The mission of Courthouse Dogs Foundation is to promote justice with compassion through the use of professionally trained assistance dogs to provide emotional support to…
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Capital Punishment: Race, Poverty, and Disadvantage—Free Online Course
…public interest law program that deals with human rights in the criminal justice and prison systems…. This course examines issues of poverty and race in the criminal justice system, particularly…
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Public Services Attorney/Law Librarian to Lead Self-Help Center in King County (Washington)
methods for the delivery of legal services. Marc has long been involved in Washington’s access to justice community. He served as the director of the Unemployment Law Project for the…
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Judge Merrick Garland Appointed to Chair Executive Committee of the Federal Judicial Conference
ICYMI (October 2017): From Richard Zorza’s Access to Justice blog post: “Roberts Choice of Garland to Head Executive Committee of Federal Judicial Conference is a Huge ATJ Opportunity,“ posted on…
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Oregon State Bar Admits New Attorneys, October 2020 (Congratulations!)
View the ceremony and read the Oath of Office: Oregon State Bar October 2020 Virtual Admissions Ceremony “Chief Justice Martha Walters and the Oregon State Bar welcome those eligible…
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Cite-Checking: A Thousand Points of Citator-Speak
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…
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Covid-19 Metaphors: Express Train, War, Black Box, Oh My
…6, 2020, post: “Hydroxychloroquine-COVID-19 study did not meet publishing society’s “expected standard”: ‘.… And we are likely to see lots of “promising” but ultimately unhelpful treatments in the days and…
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A Human Book, not an eBook: What if You Could Borrow a Legal Scholar (from your library) for an Hour?
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…
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New Legal Research Guide – Disability Law
Oregon State Legislature. The following is a brief synopsis of House Bill 2939 from the bill’s summary: “Prohibits use of mechanical restraint, chemical restraint or prone restraint on student in…