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Articles Tagged with administrative law
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Oregon FDAB (Fair Dismissal Appeals Board) Orders Soon to be Online
The State of Oregon Law Library gives us this tip about how to find FDAB Orders (Fair Dismissal Appeals Board):
FDAB Orders are not (yet) available online. DOJ provides hard copies to the Supreme Court Law Library and the three law school libraries. But they are working on a web site and will be posting the orders online at that web site. Link to the FDAB web site where some of the orders will be found in the fullness of time.
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Online CFR (Code of Federal Regulations)
Excellent CFR News: CFR Table of Contents
“Cornell Legal Information Institute has released an online version of the CFR. This new online edition of the CFR is the result of an unprecedented two-year collaboration between the Government Printing Office (GPO), the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School (LII), and the Cornell Law Library. …
The project implemented features that have been often requested by government regulators, corporate counsel, and law librarians. The LII’s edition of the CFR has the same search and navigation features that have made its edition of the United States Code the leading free, online source for Federal statutes for over a decade.”
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New legal research guide – Administrative law
If you’ve been following the news regarding the proposed administrative rule eliminating Native American mascots in Oregon public schools, and wanted to know more administrative rules and administrative law in general, you’re in luck. The Washington County Law Library has a brand new administrative law legal research guide available on its website. You can find more Oregon Legal Research blog posts on administrative law, including an invaluable post on researching the history of an OAR, using the “administrative law” tag. As always, many other legal research guides are available on the law library’s website, and you can always peruse the document index for quick document retrieval.
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Oregon Administrative Rules, OAR Bulletin, and the Oregon Documents Repository
Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR):
1) Current Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR) are online and in print at many libraries.
2) Superseded OARs: Some are online from subscription databases. (See also, the NOT ONLINE list of Oregon legal research resources.)
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The Saga of the Missing EAB Decisions
It all started with a simple citation. One of our patrons had a case from the Oregon Court of Appeals and was looking for previous history information. The first thing that should have set off my radar that this would not be a simple request was the patron’s mention that the case was affirmed without opinion. Not knowing the twisting path before me, I happily set off on my journey.
Day 1:
- I started with a LexisNexis search using the provided citation. Sadly, Lexis offered a paucity of prior history information. However, I did learn the case was an appeal from the Oregon Employment Appeals Board (EAB). Locating the original EAB decision (from 1985) was now my goal.
- I next checked our library’s collection, where I found Employment Relations Board decisions, but nothing from the EAB.
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Oregon Drivers Licenses: Appealing a Suspension, Revocation, or Cancellation?
One possible answer to a frequently asked question in public law libraries: “Can I appeal my license suspension?”
(Hurrah for the web. It was a lot harder in the “old days” to find this info. (But keep in mind, that it costs a whole lot more to maintain useful government websites than it took to answer telephones and print a directory or phonebook listing.))
Oregon DMV Administrative Review
“Many people who receive a notice of suspension, revocation or cancellation from DMV are entitled to an Administrative Review. The notice you received from DMV will indicate if you are entitled to one (see below to learn how to request an Administrative Review).
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How to Find Oregon PECBR Cases
What is the PECBR? It stands for the “Public Employer Collective Bargaining Reporter.”
We usually get the question in the form of, “what is 21 PECBR 673 and where do I find it?”
1) These citations refer to Oregon Employment Relations Board (ERB) orders. They may also be called opinions or decisions or rulings. They come from the Employment Relations Board.
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Administrative Law : The 2010 OARs are In The Building: Ecru?
Our new print set of the 2010 Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR) came today – it’s ecru. We always try and guess the color of the binding (as we do with the ORS).
(The SoS and the Legislature should get a little action going with pre-publication binding-color betting – more fun than the lottery for us wonkish types. This is about as exciting as it gets with law library décor action when you work in the public sector.)
I was hoping for gold/yellow binding; colleagues were going for greens and blues. My point: any color is better than no color (ecru?). It is such dry reading that one needs a warm glow to keep awake while reading it.
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Oregon Public Records and Meetings Manual
You can also find a searchable PDF copy of the 2008 Oregon AG’s Public Records and Meetings Manual at the Public Resource’s Bulk Resource archive, courtesy of Carl Malamud.
Previous OLR blog posts on this subject.
Thank you to Professor Bill Harbaugh for the lead and the link.