Oregon Legal Research BlogThe Oregon Supreme Court case that limited mandatory measure 11 sentences and that garnered a lot of headlines and commentary in September, was: STATE OF OREGON v. RODRIGUEZ /…
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Oregon Legislature: Do Joint Resolutions Need a Governor’s Signature?
Question: Do Oregon Senate or House Joint Resolutions have to be signed by the Governor? Answer: (with many thanks to Legislative Counsel staff): A Senate or House Join Resolution…
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Criminalizing the Mentally Ill Indigent in Oregon
An editorial (commentary/opinion) in the 1/25/08 Oregonian, “A costly wreck in need of a cleanup,” by Steve Tackett-Nelson, President of the Oregon Psychiatric Association, about mental health care in…
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When “The Law” Isn’t “The Law”: UELMA and the Oregon Revised Statutes
…Materials Act. Few have executed the act, but some are in the process. Oregon’s UELMA is codified at ORS 192.715 et seq. (but does not include court documents, only statutes…
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Guides to Oregon Legislative History
…to begin (and end), here are links to a few guides: 1) A quick and easy guide, from Oregon Dept of Admin Services (not pretty or well-formatted, but this guide…
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Oregon Small Claims Court, TurboCourt, and eCourt
Some (maybe all?) Oregon courts are offering TurboCourt online document preparation for Small Claims litigants. I haven’t seen TurboCourt in action. Visit the Washington County (Oregon) Circuit Court website…
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Mountains, Libraries, and Missing People – Not Law
I don’t know if any of you caught this editorial in today’s Oregonian – or if you caught the libraries reference, but it did make me laugh. How…
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Death by Failure to Research: Could You Pass a Legal Research Competency Test?
David Lankes tells a familiar “Death by Failure to Research” story in his free eBook, “Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries for Today’s Complex World”: “…. In 2001 Ellen Roche,…
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Child Pornography and the Library
On the LibraryLaw blog: Child pornography is NOT free speech: Excerpt (and do read the comments): “Critical point for all libraries: Child pornography is NOT protected free speech….
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Lawyers, Judges, eBooks, and Privacy: Tortoise or Hare, Legislation or “Free” Market?
…electronic,” by LaJean Humphries, in the AALL Spectrum, March 2013, Vol. 17, no. 5. The American Association of Law Libraries kindly makes their monthly newsletter, the Spectrum, publicly available….