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How to Find Missing Documents: Channeling Your Inner Sherlock Holmes
…your important documents, though always ask. (To find the papers from offices of deceased lawyers, contact the Oregon State Bar or the state licensing bar of the…
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States Must Spend Millions for ID Law
Remember “unfunded mandates?” They never really went away so you may as well get reacquainted with them. (See also, National Conference of State Legislatures on unfunded mandates.) Interesting story…
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Teach Your Children about the Law of Corporations: Nursing Home Law
…nonprofit counterparts, based on regulatory benchmarks and on citations issued by Oregon state regulators. • For-profit companies often insulate themselves by creating labyrinthine corporate structures that make it more difficult…
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What’s a Homestead Exemption?
Oregon State Bar overview. Excerpt: “If two or more members of a household are judgment debtors, each person is entitled to claim these exemptions in the same or different property….
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Oregon Legislature: What is a Committee Pony?
to answer questions about it.” (See more definitions at the Oregon Legislature’s Glossary.) The Committee Pony summary is commonly read verbatim on the floor of the respective body as the…
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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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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
7) Last, if you’re an intellectually curious sort, check out other state legislature websites. Just search the web with an easy search like this: [name of state] legislature…