Court documents

Published on: February 28, 2014

How to Find Oregon Circuit Court Documents: Counting Down to eCourt (OECI) 2016

By Laura Orr

You still have to resort to the old, not so tried or true, and still time-consuming or expensive methods for locating many Oregon court documents, but that will change over the next few years.

1) By the end of January 2014 these courts will be off OJIN and on eCourt: Benton, Clatsop, Columbia, Crook, Jackson, Jefferson, Linn, Polk, Tillamook, and Yamhill.

2) By the end of 2014: Multnomah, Douglas, Josephine, and Marion circuit courts will be off OJIN and on eCourt.

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Published on: January 31, 2014

PACER Back-ups (and Back downs)

By Laura Orr

PACER has been a regular jumping bean lately, bouncing up and down, up and down.

While these PACER back-ups are not perfect, and you’ll need to verify document currency when PACER is back up again, some law librarians say in a pinch they might still be useful:

1) PlainSite

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Published on: December 14, 2012

Status of the Oregon eCourt Program

By Laura Orr

Read the Status of the Oregon eCourt Program report.

You can find the report and more at the State Library’s Reports to the Oregon State Legislature

To read more about eCourt, visit the OJD e-Court website.

Published on: October 9, 2011

Oregon eCourt Policy Recommendations – and Glossary

By Laura Orr

The Oregon State Bar has posted links to the OJD’s eCourt team’s policy papers and more. “These recommendations will be discussed at two upcoming meetings at the OSB Center. These are October 18th and November 15th at 1:30 PM.”

You can find these and more documents at the OJD eCourt Publications website (or from the OJD homepage), including an Oregon eCourt Glossary.

Published on: June 28, 2011

Eight Rules of Implementing Court E-Filing Systems

By Laura Orr

Legal Informatics Blog alerts us to the forthcoming:

McMillan: Eight Rules of E-Filing and on to the Eight Rules of E-Filing at the Court Technology Bulletin, which alerts us that they will:

‘… Over the next several weeks we will offer eight rules of E-filing systems implementation. However, please note that there are many additional factors in any successful implementation as defined in classic project management structures including proper governance, budget, testing, and communication that cannot be ignored. So please keep that in mind as you read our “rules“….’ [Link to introductory post.]

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