Obergefell v. Hodges - SCOTUS hears same sex marriage oral arguments today

SCOTUS is hearing argument in Obergefell v. Hodges et all today on two questions presented:

1.     Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex?

2.     Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-state?

You can listen to the oral arguments on the SCOTUS website. 

• Question 1
• Question 2

[Edit] If you don't want to listen to the whole argument SCOTUSblog has made a 30 min audio super cut.

If you are interested you can read all the merits briefs on the American Bar Association webpage here. 

SCOTUSBlog has a analysis of the arguments up here. 

 

Oregon Appellate Oral Arguments - Week of April 27th

Oregon Supreme Court Oral Arguments

• No Oral Arguments

Oregon Court of Appeals Oral Arguments

• 4/28 - 4/30 Arguments

American Courthouses

Have you ever wanted to see what the downtown Chicago Cook county courthouse looked like or when rural Wisconsin courthouses where built? 

Check out this American Courthouses website put together by Canadian attorney John Deacon. It contains pictures and short histories of courthouses from around the United States and Canada. 

There are some great gems of courthouses on here. Check out the Henry County, Illinois courthouse where your humble librarian once worked or this great bronze and glass dome in Oneida County Wisconsin. 

Never fear Oregonians, he's covered Oregon too.

Thanks to Mr. Deacon we can take a virtual tour of some of America and Canada's most distinctive legal architecture.

Oregon Appellate Oral Arguments - Week of April 20th

Oregon Supreme Court Oral Arguments

• 4/22 Arguments 

1. 9:00 am - Jason Chapman v. Carroll Mayfield - S062455 (A150341)
2. 10:30 am - State of Oregon v. Isacc Creed Agee - S059530

Oregon Court of Appeals Oral Arguments

• 4/21 Arguments

Oregon Appellate Oral Arguments - Week of April 13th

Oregon Supreme Court

• No arguments scheduled

Oregon Court of Appeals Arguments

• 4/13 - 4/17 Arguments

NOLO Books and EBSCO's Legal Information Reference Service Available Statewide!

The State of Oregon Law library has acquired access to EBSCO's Legal Information Reference Service for all Oregonians!

This service contains a large number of NOLO legal reference books and various legal forms. You can view all the books available in the collection here:

• http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/lir-coverage.htm

NOLO publications are books on common legal topics aimed at non-lawyers. The NOLO books are a good resource for people looking to get a handle on common legal problems.

In order to login to the new service Oregonians should use their county of residence for their login ID and Oregon as their password.

For example, a person from Marion county would log in like so:

Patron ID:  marion

Password: oregon

Head on over to EBSCO and log into SOLL's newest public resource!

• http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=custuid&custid=ns134741&profile=lirc

Oregon Appellate Arguments - Week of April 6th

Oregon Supreme Court

• No arguments scheduled

Oregon Court of Appeals

• Arguments 4/8
• 4/8 9:00 am arguments are being held at Madras High School  (390 SE 10th St, Madras, OR 97741)