Oregon Legal Research BlogAnother story (see the 4/16/10 one about the erroneous safety corridor designation) about a driver who does the research – and finds out that posted speed limit has been…
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Verisimilitude: Cops, Crooks, & Fictional Lawyers: Just the Facts, Ma’am
…to the Stars,” by Nancy L. Strohmeyer, 9 Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 7 – 9 (1991)) 4) Most successful writers know to do their research before creating “real life”…
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Around the Country: Criminal Records Research and Self-Help
I like to look at how other states present legal research and legal information resources online. Here are a couple new websites I’ve run across lately. Connecticut Law…
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HeinOnline: 5 Simple Tips to Improve Your Research
HeinOnline is legal research database with a rich collection of law review articles, historic and current federal legal resources, and special topics such as gun laws or LGBTQ+ information. HeinOnline…
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Articles of Impeachment: Where and How to Find
…print in large law or government document libraries and usually, though not always easily, online. Some online Congressional research resources are fee-based databases and some are free. For example, see…
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Report: “Marijuana and health: A comprehensive review of 20 years of research”
“Marijuana and health: A comprehensive review of 20 years of research,” by K.K. Repp, PhD, MPH and A.L. Raich, MS, MPH, October 20th, 2014 From the Executive Summary: “Rarely…
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U.S. Supreme Court Web Citation Link Rot Fix (UC Berkeley)
…Ardery to address this problem by hosting U.S. Supreme Court Web Citations, a web service that captures snapshots of any web resource cited by the United States Supreme Court immediately…
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West (and Westlaw) vs. Lexis Headnotes (Human vs. Machine)
Lawyers and other legal researchers rely on the West Key Number system and the Lexis equivalent headnote system to find relevant case law. If you want to know how…
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When a Law Librarian Sighs, It Means Talk to a Lawyer! (Note: The Google is NOT a Lawyer)
“Thus sayeth the Librarian,“ over at Legal Research is Easy (where you can enjoy some of the best public law librarianship story (and truth) telling in the blogging…
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Landlord-Tenant Law Guide (from the Law Library of Congress)
Just because landlord-tenant law is state-specific and local law for most of us mere mortals doesn’t mean there aren’t some excellent treatises and resources on the subject for those…