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Happy Hour in Oregon and More Difficulties with Legislative Drafting
Hard on the heels of my last post on legislative drafting, we have another story and example: OLCC revisits restriction on happy hour ads, by Bill Graves, The Oregonian,…
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PSU (and Library) Temporary Closure Due to Budget Cuts
Oregon State Library and staffed by Oregon librarians, and others around the U.S .). If you want to speak out to your elected officials about budget priorities: Use…
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Tracking your Oregon Legislators: Email, Mobile, Audio, Video, and More
The Oregon Legislature’s website has some very nice features (although it does seem as though I always write about its flaws!): 1) Their Legislator and Committee email notification sign-up…
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Emergency Legislation Shortlist: 2009 Oregon Laws with Early Effective Dates
The Oregon State Bar (OSB) has posted their Emergency Legislation Shortlist at their website: From the intro: “Bills Passed by the 2009 Oregon State Legislature With Effective Dates Earlier…
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The Saga of the Missing EAB Decisions
on the Oregon State Archives (SA) website, with the hope old EAB decisions would go to the Archives for, well, archiving. Our trusty Blue Book says EAB records are transferred…
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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…
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Oregon Ballot Measure Archive Project: Update
We heard a good-news update on the Oregon Ballot Measure Archive Project, which founder and leader Joshua Binus says is alive and well. From Joshua: “The biggest news to…
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Who’s Regulating the Regulators?
$559 a month in one year, she did what no Oregonian has done before. The 63-year-old retired psychotherapist from Northwest Portland called bullshit on the state Insurance Division by challenging…
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Proposed Oregon Medical Marijuana Policy and Legislation
Oregon Constitution in order to find an answer to a simple question.) Drafting statutes is an art and a craft and we should be thankful that our state and federal…