Oregon Legal Research Blog

Published on: September 18, 2007

Misery Loves Company: Baker’s Law and Misery Lit

By Laura Orr

…on it.” The law is attributed to columnist Russell Baker, hence the name. It is also listed on the website “Murphy’s Laws and Corollaries”: http://dmawww.epfl.ch/roso.mosaic/dm/murphy.html [February 2002].”…

Published on: July 17, 2007

Can we reduce our dependence on foreign legal publishers?

By Laura Orr

…creating official, publicly accessible databases of the laws of the land, our land, the “land” that makes laws we have to follow. (Yes, I know … babies and bathwater 🙂…

Published on: February 28, 2007

HOA Proxy Form … in English, please

By Laura Orr

Here are two HOA proxies. Which one do you want your HOA to use? From Wayne Schiess, at his Legal Writing blog: This one: 1. “In accordance with…

Published on: December 5, 2012

Oregon Mobile Home Owners and Renters

By Laura Orr

…public and personal records, estate, contractor, land use, local, and many other Oregon legal subjects. Oregon landlord-tenant resources may be of some limited use – note that mobile home laws…

Published on: November 30, 2006

By Laura Orr

Animal House and Land-Use Laws?: I suppose we have to admire them – and then again, maybe not. Findlaw has an interesting story about what happens when land-use…

Published on: August 1, 2006

By Laura Orr

…attorney. Any electronic medium disclaimer statement should reflect that fact. No matter which state or federal public records laws apply, this basic and universal truth is unassailable. When…

Published on: June 19, 2006

By Laura Orr

Blog Defamation Laws Needed?: Edward Fadeley, former Oregon Supreme Court associate justice, wrote in Sunday’s (June 18th, 2006) Oregonian, an article titled, “We Need Laws Against Blog Defamation.”…

Published on: May 2, 2006

By Laura Orr

…volumes you have, but will be published in the Oregon Laws for the special session (e.g. the laws passed in April 2006, won’t show up in the 2005 ORS, but…

Published on: January 30, 2024

Piracy on the High Seas

By Lee Van Duzer

…international law. Federal law incorporates the international laws of piracy and has provisions for U.S. citizens who engage, or assist, in piracy on the “high seas.” The blog post “Modern…

Published on: June 10, 2016

Oregon Revised Statutes, 1995 and 1997, Appearing Online

By Laura Orr

…thank them for this effort. In time, pre-1953 Oregon laws, codes, and statutes and 1953 to the present ORS will appear online. (Although not yet UELMA-compliant. Only a few states are…