Oregon Legal Research Blog

Published on: July 22, 2013

Superseded Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS): July 2013 Update

By Laura Orr

…and 1995-2009 ORSs: Easy: From the Oregon Legislature’s website, search under Bills/Laws. Click on the link to “Selected Archives of the Oregon Revised Statutes.” 2) 1969-1989 ORSs: Not so easy,…

Published on: August 6, 2013

“Oregon Courts Turn Crisis into Opportunity,” by OJD’s David Moon (NSCS 2013 Trends in State Courts)

By Laura Orr

…David Moon, “Oregon Courts Turn Crisis into Opportunity.” [If that direct link doesn’t work, try this TinyURL or search “2013 NCSC Trends in State Courts” and follow the links.]…

Published on: November 22, 2006

By Laura Orr

…our darnedest to communicate a problem in search of a solution to someone who we hope and pray has a clue what we are talking about. (You can see why…

Published on: December 22, 2006

U.K. Legal Database

By Laura Orr

…attention. There are times when you really do want to look at and compare their statutes to ours. Try, for example, typing “infanticide” into the database title search field….

Published on: October 3, 2013

Is Crime Down or are “Failures to Report” Up?

By Laura Orr

From University of Washington’s Trial Advocacy blog: Crime Stats and Google (NYT) Excerpt from blog post: “An economist has been mining Google search data to learn more about crime,…

Published on: July 30, 2007

Criminal Records / Background Checks

By Laura Orr

…worth repeating. Locating criminal records is always harder than most people imagine. There is no single database for searching criminal records, unless you know for a fact that the person…

Published on: July 12, 2012

Is the Much Maligned Eminent Domain an Underwater Mortgage Holder’s Friend?

By Laura Orr

…Compare with, “Why you can’t use eminent domain to buy performing mortgages,” by Felix Salmon and the article at Reason dot org and others ( search eminent domain foreclosure)….

Published on: January 8, 2008

Towing in Oregon: The Beat Goes On

By Laura Orr

…page, type the word towing into the search box, and keep yourself busy for a while – a long while. But public law librarians get towing questions from all over…

Published on: December 19, 2007

How to Find a Lawyer in Oregon – in 6 Easy Steps

By Laura Orr

…can search it online at their excellent database, but my library and others keep a print copy handy. It is a fabulous resource and complement to our How to Find…

Published on: December 18, 2007

U.S. Passport Application Database, 1795-1925

By Laura Orr

PI Buzz has a post about searching old U.S. Passport databases: Excerpt from the PI Buzz post: “U.S. Passport Applications 1795-1925 have been collected together into one database that…