If you need an excuse to go to Chicago (who needs an excuse? It’s a beautiful city, clean (much more than Portland nowadays (!), exciting, good transit, great food,…
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What Do People (and Lawyers) Ask Public Law Librarians?
…The Oregon Special Law Library Association (ORSLA) asked the question. Read the answers (and a few samples below). Public law librarians around the country will recognize these: • Non-attorney wanted…
Book: Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg to Gates
…to spread cheap reprints of popular sheet music. In the 1950s, a pirate music label named Jolly Roger issued recordings by Louis Armstrong and other jazz greats from LP’s that…
100 Uses for Pocket U.S. Constitutions
…pass around to public-transit mates when we start talking about the 17th Amendment (election of Senators) and other heavy subjects. (And see also #7, below.)3) Gifts on special occasions or…
Regulating Birth and Birth Control, plus a Short Story Comic (Oregon Historical Quarterly)
“From the regulation of midwifery and home birth, to the history of genetic counseling, to the impact of federal Indian policies on Native communities, the history of birth…
Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #13
…to all local, special and municipal legislation of every character in or for their municipality or district. The manner of exercising those powers shall be provided by general laws, but…
What is a “Valid Signature” on an Oregon Initiative Petition?
…II §2, Art. IX §1, §1aVeto excluded, Art. IV §1 II.) Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) (but don’t forget that Special Session laws aren’t codified until sometime after the regular session…
Journalists Keep Getting the Law Wrong (via Seth Abramson)
Is there a journalist reporting on the (not yet released except to Barr, selected Rs and pundits, selected West Wingers, and others?) Mueller Report who has read the Special…
Underwater Logging Laws in Oregon
…where or how he obtained permission to salvage old-growth timber from the Columbia River. However, the article does point out that sunken logs can be branded or labeled as the…
Oregon Supreme Court: PERS Decision (4/30/15)
Moro v. State of Oregon, 357 Or 167 (S061452) (2015) “…. Before Balmer, Chief Justice, and Kistler, Walters, Linder, Brewer, and Baldwin, Justices, and Haselton, Chief Judge of…
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