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
…people who love you. (Another reason to value our metro area’s Classroom Law Project!) I used newspaper articles a lot when I taught legal research to law students, today’s…
Effective Dates of (Oregon) Legislation and Ballot Measures
…it passed just last November), from the Legislature’s website to the Secretary of State, Elections Division, website, and beyond, to no avail. My next starting point became the blog post…
Emergency Legislation Shortlist: 2009 Oregon Laws with Early Effective Dates
The Oregon State Bar (OSB) has posted their Emergency Legislation Shortlist at their website: From the intro: “Bills Passed by the 2009 Oregon State Legislature With Effective Dates Earlier…
Update to “Leaving Children Home Alone in Oregon”
In addition to Laura’s most recent post on leaving children home alone, June 15, 2009, and our newly updated Kids Home Alone in Oregon legal research guide, here are…
Legislative Redistricting in Oregon
…– Redistricting Law in OregonGina Zejdlik, Office of Legislative Counsel – Population in OregonCharles Rynerson, Population Research Center, Portland State University (PSU)Sheila Martin, Ph.D, Director, Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies,…
More on: Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) Copyrighted Material
Additional information at BoleyBlogs: “Boing Boing points us to a bit of unfortunate business between the State of Oregon and two sites, Justia and…
April Fool, or Not: The Oregon State Bar is Looking for Lawyer Poets
Calling all Poets (from the OSB Legal Pubs blog) But if you’re going to write haiku, please, please, please do it right. (Sigh.) Haiku isn’t what you wrote in…
Oregon County Law: Duty to Fix Potholes?
…Road a “local access road.” That means the road is technically public, but the county has no legal duty to take care of it. In fact, state law bars the…
Oregon November 2010 Election: Gubernator (aka Governor) Candidates!
Papers homepage.)3) Wikipedia Oregon Gubernatorial 2010 Election 4) If you are so inclined, take a look at these political party bylaws. Previous Oregon Legal Research blog posts on elections….
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