Legal self-help is a bit of a crap-shoot unless you have official (i.e. court sanctioned and current) legal forms or the guiding hand of an attorney, but sometimes one…
Interesting case out of the Oregon Court of Appeals today (2/20/08), with a legislative history of ORS 31.735: MAN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT and OREGON DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Appellant Cross-Respondent, v….
…— poses an issue of statutory interpretation. The methodology that Oregon courts follow in interpreting statutes is a distillation of settled interpretative principles, some of which have been codified in…
If your answer is yes, you might want to read this case from the Oregon Court of Appeals, filed 10/29/08. You can also see a judicial exercise of statutory…
Right to Counsel and the Right to Remain Silent AND the Importance of Reading the Full Case There are no shortcuts to thorough legal research: The Oregon Court of…
…90. The trial court entered FED judgments in favor of plaintiff and supplemental judgments for costs and disbursements, concluding that the RLTA did not apply. The cases were consolidated for…
The Oregon Judicial Department’s (OJD) 2002 Style Manual specifies the Webster’s Third International New International Dictionary (unabridged ed. 2002) as the court’s “official” (non-legal) dictionary. (Many, possibly all,…
…contact your County Election Office for specific instructions! — In my business (public law library wonkery) I see reminders about voting everywhere I turn, but not everyone is…
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