Oregon Legal Research Blog…research and also curious about such things. What IS positive law anyway? No, positive law isn’t law in your favor, but that’s not a bad guess. Nor is it law…
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Positive Law, Codification, and Peanuts (i.e. Linus)
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Oregon Vehicle Repair Shop Legislation: Estimates Required, But When?
…bill. It turned out to be a little bit of a research exercise to find out the new statute number. We could easily find out that the bill became law…
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A One-Stop Website for Federal Court Opinions? Soon, Maybe, Eventually?
Free public access to federal court opinions through GPO’s FDsys may be coming soon. A lot of people (e.g. those “it’s all online” types who haven’t a clue) think…
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Searching Oregon Legislative Bills and Flawed Search Engines
…researchers use multiple search tools, print and online and human, when doing serious research. You surely want your doctor and lawyer to be doing really thorough research when you…
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Verisimilitude: Cops, Crooks, & Fictional Lawyers: Just the Facts, Ma’am
…reminded me of all those badly written, edited, and researched books I gave up on the first time I read sentences like: “He was a sophomore in law school.” (Note:…
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West (and Westlaw) vs. Lexis Headnotes (Human vs. Machine)
Lawyers and other legal researchers rely on the West Key Number system and the Lexis equivalent headnote system to find relevant case law. If you want to know how…
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Report: “Marijuana and health: A comprehensive review of 20 years of research”
“Marijuana and health: A comprehensive review of 20 years of research,” by K.K. Repp, PhD, MPH and A.L. Raich, MS, MPH, October 20th, 2014 From the Executive Summary: “Rarely…
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Free Access to Nolo Legal Self-Help Publications for ALL Oregonians (Fastcase, too)
Your State of Oregon Law Library give you FREE access to NOLO publications and the FASTCASE legal research database: NOLO (aka Nolo Press): “NOLO provides access to full-text legal…
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“Desk Set” (the movie) and the 2016 Robot Lawyers
If you’re not tracking news of Robot Lawyers then you’re not keeping up with the legal research profession. No, not a “robotic” lawyer, but the Artificial Intelligence (AI) kind….
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When a Law Librarian Sighs, It Means Talk to a Lawyer! (Note: The Google is NOT a Lawyer)
“Thus sayeth the Librarian,“ over at Legal Research is Easy (where you can enjoy some of the best public law librarianship story (and truth) telling in the blogging…