The Oregon Supreme Court will not hear oral arguments the week of April 25th.
The Oregon Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on April 26th and 28th in the Supreme Court Courtroom.
Monday, April 25, 2016
Thursday, April 14, 2016
New Oregon Public Records Orders Database
The State of Oregon Law Library is excited to unveil a new online database of the Oregon Attorney General’s public records orders.
For those unfamiliar with public records orders, a person who has been denied the right to inspect or receive a copy of a public record of a state agency may submit a petition to the Attorney General. The Attorney General reviews the public record to determine if it may be withheld from public inspection and issues an order responding to the petition. Public records orders are the Attorney General's interpretation of the Oregon Public Records Law, ORS 192.410 to 192.505, as applied to the records being sought.
The new free public tool allows for full-text searching of orders issued 1981-present. The database also gives users advanced searching capabilities to locate statutes based on the petitioner’s name, the agency whose records are being sought, or the date issued. SOLL worked closely with the Oregon Department of Justice to provide online access to these documents.
Visit and explore the new database at: http://cdm17027.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p17027coll2.
For more information on Oregon Public Records and Meetings Law, please visit the Department of Justice Web site: http://www.doj.state.or.us/public_records/pages/index.aspx.
For those unfamiliar with public records orders, a person who has been denied the right to inspect or receive a copy of a public record of a state agency may submit a petition to the Attorney General. The Attorney General reviews the public record to determine if it may be withheld from public inspection and issues an order responding to the petition. Public records orders are the Attorney General's interpretation of the Oregon Public Records Law, ORS 192.410 to 192.505, as applied to the records being sought.
The new free public tool allows for full-text searching of orders issued 1981-present. The database also gives users advanced searching capabilities to locate statutes based on the petitioner’s name, the agency whose records are being sought, or the date issued. SOLL worked closely with the Oregon Department of Justice to provide online access to these documents.
Visit and explore the new database at: http://cdm17027.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p17027coll2.
For more information on Oregon Public Records and Meetings Law, please visit the Department of Justice Web site: http://www.doj.state.or.us/public_records/pages/index.aspx.
Friday, April 8, 2016
Oregon Reports Extras
Historical legal research is often vital to making a convincing legal argument. A point of law can often turn on a statute or rule that is decades old.
A particularly difficult area of this research is Oregon court rules. If you are lucky enough to well stocked library you may have access back to Merrill's 1981 manual of Oregon Civil procedure. Finding historical Oregon court rules prior to 1981 can be difficult.
The Oregon Reports can help! The official reporter of the Oregon Supreme Court published court rules staring with it's first volume in 1852. You can find Oregon Court rules through 1979 published alongside the court opinions. The Oregon Reports also contains a number of other interesting sets or rules. You can find the US District of Oregon court rules from 1862 and state circuit court rules from 1872.
It has also been the practice of the court to publish memorials to certain persons. Generally the court has included memorials of Justices and Judges of the Oregon appellate courts. There are a few other non-judicial memorials, including a memorial to the long serving State of Oregon Law Librarian Edward N. Gillingham. These memorials are interesting in themselves but also provide insight into the court's history.
I have compiled the work of Mary Bauman, Pat Zollner, Mary Yunker into a spreadsheet that details in what volumes you can find these useful records. Click on the link below to download the spreadsheet.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx7JgEyZBR3aTXpqLWFLQl9ncUE
A particularly difficult area of this research is Oregon court rules. If you are lucky enough to well stocked library you may have access back to Merrill's 1981 manual of Oregon Civil procedure. Finding historical Oregon court rules prior to 1981 can be difficult.
The Oregon Reports can help! The official reporter of the Oregon Supreme Court published court rules staring with it's first volume in 1852. You can find Oregon Court rules through 1979 published alongside the court opinions. The Oregon Reports also contains a number of other interesting sets or rules. You can find the US District of Oregon court rules from 1862 and state circuit court rules from 1872.
It has also been the practice of the court to publish memorials to certain persons. Generally the court has included memorials of Justices and Judges of the Oregon appellate courts. There are a few other non-judicial memorials, including a memorial to the long serving State of Oregon Law Librarian Edward N. Gillingham. These memorials are interesting in themselves but also provide insight into the court's history.
I have compiled the work of Mary Bauman, Pat Zollner, Mary Yunker into a spreadsheet that details in what volumes you can find these useful records. Click on the link below to download the spreadsheet.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx7JgEyZBR3aTXpqLWFLQl9ncUE
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