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When is it criminal neglect to leave your children alone?
See recent updates (e.g. 2/10/11 ), but also click on the Home Alone label in the sidebar or the bottom of this post. Some of the most frequently…
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Babysitting and the Law
** Please see the June 2009 update (or click on the Babysitting label). ** This is the time of year when the babysitting questions appear with increasing…
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A Human Book, not an eBook: What if You Could Borrow a Legal Scholar (from your library) for an Hour?
…prejudice I feel is invisible. It’s more a stigma attached to the label,” Langley said in a telephone interview from the university campus. “We’re thought of as evil, callous and…
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Cite-Checking: A Thousand Points of Citator-Speak
…label for Shepardizing. When I’m speaking generically, I use “citator service.” To take the “Xerox” out of photocopy, or the “Kleenex” out of tissue, I would just refer to it…
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Covid-19 Metaphors: Express Train, War, Black Box, Oh My
…that local arrives at its final destination, it may be wise to label all this research—preprints, peer-reviewed papers, and for goodness’ sake, pronouncements from Donald Trump— with a black-box warning:…
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Federal Civil Disorder Law and the Commerce Clause
…have broad power to enact criminal statutes, while the federal government is limited to enforcing criminal laws on federal land or property, that involve actions crossing state lines, or in…
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Aging, the Law, and AARP
…as I do reading Consumer Reports. This month (Jan 2007) in the AARP Bulletin their column, The Law, has this question: “Does a retirement community violate federal laws by deciding…
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Beat Your Ticket, Get Your Day in Court
…laws are online, whether it is an Oregon Revised Statute (ORS) or a local ordinance. 2) Read Nolo Press’s “Beat Your Ticket” (smart, practical, humbling, honest). Your local law library…
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Chef Higgins and the Law of Salmon
You have to love chefs who also know something about how laws are made and are willing to speak out. It makes my little law librarian heart all…