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Legislative History
…beyond needing to know the history of one of the statutes about whistleblowers. When doing a legislative history, the first thing to do is find which statute you want to…
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Scientists Conclude that Wikipedia Influences Judges’ Legal Reasoning – LawSites
…‘cases and statutes and respected authorities.’ But a team of scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Maynooth University, Ireland, has concluded that, in fact, Wikipedia…
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History of Canine Jurisprudence in New York
…reason some judicial opinions are so long. (New legal researchers also don’t know that one needs to verify any legal history by reading the cases and statutes cited by the…
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Can I Leave My Kids Home Alone? Child neglect and related crimes in Oregon
Wondering how to interpret Oregon’s Child Neglect statutes in ORS Chapter 163.505 et seq. “Offenses against the family,” including but not limited to sections 163.545 And 163.547? This (undated)…
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Always Use the Serial (aka Oxford or Harvard) Comma in Legal Documents
…including contracts, legal opinions, statutes, regulations, and any other legal agreement or law that will be interpreted literally (and I mean literally, literally) by parties to the agreement or by…
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Free Legal Research Databases for all Oregonians
If you are not a licensed Oregon attorney and you need to perform thorough legal research (vs “googling a legal problem,” yikes), you have free access to some of…
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Laws of Oregon Political Parties
After 10+ years of blogging about how to find Oregon law, statutes, regulations, cases, etc., it seems as though it’s time to pull back the curtain a little more…
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What is the Law of Net Neutrality? “Making Sense of the FCC’s Effort to Kill Net Neutrality” (Radio Survivor)
“Net Neutrality” is not an issue of first impression: there are several decades’ worth of federal statutes, legislative history, and administrative and regulatory laws, federal court opinions, federal-state preemption…
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A Reading List for People Planning to “Occupy” Public Property
…literature. Search online: civil disobedience activism protest revolts civil rights, anarchy, revolution, etc. Read federal and Oregon law, including statutes, cases, and regulations. (I recommend asking a law librarian for…