Oregon Legal Research BlogWillamette Week’s Murmers this week (5/21/08) notes a recent study (May 2008) titled, “Which States Have the Best (and worst) High Courts,” by Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati, and…
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Small Claims Litigant (winner) vs. Meth House (loser)
Who would have thought to use Oregon Small Claims Court to shut down a meth house? A very creative lawyer, that’s who! See the story in the July…
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Jury Duty: We’re walking, we’re walking … we’re summoned, we’re summoned!
…the circuit court, the persons whose names are added to the term jury list shall be summoned by the clerk of court giving written notice to each of them by…
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U.S. Supreme Court Sentencing Decisions (2007-8 Term)
This post is primarily for reference purposes (mine!): One day, in about 8.17 months, someone’s going to ask for the names of these cases, “you now, those cocaine…
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Oregon Circuit Court Filing Fees
Oregon Judicial Department (OJD) Filing Fee website and fee calculator. Oregon attorneys have additional information at the PLF website, including this memo that was revised January 12, 2010:…
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Justice Bedsworth, Homeland Security, and the Peter Principle Collapse in a Heap of Ice Chips
If U.S. Supreme Court Justices can rise above their Green Bag bobblehead replicas, and state court judges survive becoming piñatas, then surely the Department of Homeland Security can survive…
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Error in the Court Report: Legal Publishing
A Law Librarian Blog July 27, 2010, post was interesting on several counts: It May Be Just One Letter But … When West Refuses to Correct Scopes v….
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Oregon Lawyers: Dues increases, Fee-Splitting, Consolidating Circuit Court Districts, Lawyer Referral Policy Changes, More!!
The 2012 Oregon State Bar (OSB) House of Delegates Meeting is scheduled for November 2, 2012. Read the Oregon Law Practice Management blog post (10/8/12) for information about…
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Portland Airport (PDX) Naked Passenger vs. TSA Case
…the contestant didn’t know the answer. On July 18th, 2012, Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge David Rees acquitted John E. Brennan of an indecent exposure charge. The decision (order or…
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What Do People (and Lawyers) Ask Public Law Librarians?
…Copied the information for him in print and emailed it to him so he could access it on his handheld mobile device in court. • Attorney needed research assistance with…