Articles Tagged with vehicle and traffic law

From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:

Public law librarians get the darnedest questions. It’s not so much the questions themselves, but that people think that we have answers to their questions. We don’t! But we like that people think about us when trying to solve their problems.

And we do have the pretty good problem-solving and research skills. We also, most of us, have a lot of common sense, not to mention a lot of people we can call upon for more research ideas. Here’s a recent question – and answer:

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 interpretation at work. What does it mean that a registration plate be displayed “on the front * * * of the vehicle”?

And, the next time you complain when the law librarian says, in response to your legal question (ahem, your legal problem), “IT DEPENDS,” you might understand why.

Winter Driving and other Traffic Laws at Oregon State Police website:

1) Winter Driving Guide homepage (and brochure)

2) Move Over, It’s the Law brochure

Here’s a story about a man who was wronged – and how it took him 5 months to right the wrong.

(We see a lot of people in the law library who want quick fixes for the wrongs done to them. It’s a hard lesson for them to learn — that fixing many wrongs can take time, persistence, patience, and forbearance, and sometimes all to the power 10.)

“Portland man gets refund, and he wasn’t the only one wrongly towed,” by Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Tuesday September 23, 2008:

My blog post about How to Beat Your Ticket has been very popular and now, with the generous help of the Oregon State Bar (OSB) Bulletin editors, writers, and lawyer contributors, I am sure to surpass that value with this new post.

The OSB Bulletin’s Aug/Sept 2008 issue has an, I dare say phenomenal, article on traffic law: Traffic School: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know, by Janine Robben. It even includes one of those beloved Checklists – hurrah! (My law library patrons and I do love our checklists.)

So, if you have a traffic ticket you want to challenge and don’t read this article in addition to the quick-pick resources from my blog post, then I have nothing else to say to you.

Chicago Bicycle Law links to the Portland attorney Ray Thomas article, “Strategies Regarding Public Irritation With Bicyclists.”

Excerpt:

“Examine the letter section of local newspapers or listen in on commentary on a.m. radio talk shows and the emergence of a new group of people becomes visible – folks who openly dislike bicycle riders. As the number of bicyclists (and their perceived political muscle) has increased, more and more citizens have come forward to denounce boorish, illegal, elitist, rude, and/or threatening behavior of bicyclists….
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Unfortunately, this backlash to the bicycle movement has made its way into the jury box. Since jurors are drawn from voter and driver license lists, people on juries tend to include folks who are able to leave their jobs or home routines and serve for as long as a case takes to finish. Juries are composed of people who reflect area demographics and attitudes – the majority of jurors identify with car drivers and do not ride bicycles in traffic….” (link to full article)