Questions tagged [oregon]
Questions concerning the laws, criminal justice system, civil court procedures and related topics specific to the state of Oregon.
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What should you do if an officer leaves a traffic stop?
This might be a bit of a TV trope, but I think it happens in reality as well. Suppose an officer pulls someone over for a traffic infraction and starts talking to the person about why they were pulled ...
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Is a bylaw amendment required to adopt Robert's Rules of Order?
Does an Oregon nonprofit corporation need a bylaw amendment to officially and permanently adopt Robert's Rules of Order, or could it be done with a regular resolution?
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Is it legal to use a TV-B-Gone on a TV in a business?
Is it legal for a customer to use a TV-B-Gone to turn off TVs in businesses, e.g. the ones playing sports channels in restaurants or the demo models in stores, without permission of the owner?
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What amount of force, if any, can be used to prevent animal abuse?
What amount of physical force, if any, can be used to prevent animal abuse (a dog's owner hitting the dog, with a minor present) in Oregon? Is it legal to restrain the owner? Take the dog to a safe ...
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Is it legal to keep an old hole-punched driver's license or permit?
It is illegal in Oregon to possess two drivers licences, but when you get a new one, the DMV hole-punches the old one and gives it back to you. The paper temporary license is valid for driving ...
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Does labeling a parking space as "Compact" have any legal significance?
I have an assigned parking space, which is labeled "Compact." There is another parking space immediately to the right of mine, which is also labeled "Compact." I have a compact car,...
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Can a victim of theft retroactively give the stolen item to the thief?
If Joe steals Alice's widget, but Alice for some reason doesn't want Joe to be convicted and is okay with him having her widget, can she retroactively give him permission? Does this prevent him from ...
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How does community service work?
When a person is convicted of a crime and required to perform community service, what exactly is involved?
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What is the "preamble" to a ballot measure called?
Oregon ballot measures have this basic format (this particular one is an initiative for a constitutional amendment, but referendums [referenda?] are similar, as are measures for regular legislation):
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What does Oregon ballot measure 112 actually do?
Section 31, Article 4 of the Oregon constitution says:
There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the State, otherwise than as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have ...
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Can a client share legal advice from a lawyer?
Alice, Bob, and Chris have a conversation about doing XYZ, and the question of legality comes up --- none of them know whether or not XYZing is legal. Alice hires a lawyer and asks him; he says yes, ...
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Would it be legal to publish a program to factor large semiprime numbers?
If I somehow figured out a way to factor large semiprime numbers in a reasonable amount of time (don't worry, I haven't; this is hypothetical), would it be legal to publish the code?
This could be ...
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Oregon property disclosure law: buyer discovers cracking foundation that seller did not disclose - 20 months after closing
I purchased a 110 year old house 18 months ago and am living in it. At the time of sale I waived inspection and did As-Is based on two factors: a 3rd party inspection was provided to me from buyer ...
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Can you form a temporary nonprofit?
Can you start a 501c3 organization to complete a project, collect donations, do the project, donate all leftover money to another 501c3 with similar goals, then dissolve the organization? It would ...
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Can you be convicted of a crime when you could not avoid doing so because of a bug in a state-owned mobile app?
Oregon offers electronic licenses and tags for hunting and fishing; the problem is that the app does not work reliably offline, despite advertising this feature. (It's very common to not have an ...
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Is it illegal for someone with a duty of care to not act on questionable information?
Someone told me about a case where some people got lost in the woods, "the authorities" (not sure who, but let's assume they had a legal duty to rescue the people who got lost) could not ...
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Is there any significance to "Inc." vs "Corp."?
Oregon requires corporation names to include "Incorporated," "Corporation," "Limited," or an abbreviation of one of those. Is there any reason why a business owner might ...
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Can a director of a for-profit corporation be unpaid, or paid a nominal salary?
If a corporation has a director who doesn't actually do much and is just there to fulfill a legal requirement, and the director does not want to be paid, is that legal? What about a $1/year salary? ...
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Can you use deadly force in self defense when you could likely appease the attacker by deleting a video of a crime they committed?
John commits a non-violent crime against Jane.
Jane recorded the crime.
John threatens to kill Jane if she doesn't delete the video.
Can Jane legally use deadly force against John?
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Who owns geocaches and their contents?
When someone places a geocache, presumably that person owns the container; it wouldn't make sense for anyone except them (or possibly Groundspeak? I don't think the ToS transfer ownership) to own it.
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Can you sue your own business?
If an employee of my LLC negligently causes injury to me in the course of their employment, can I sue my LLC, like a non-owner could?
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Is it necessary to have an attorney-client relationship for a lawyer to give legal advice to someone?
If a lawyer gives legal advice to someone who is not his/her client, is that legal?
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Could a person's lawyer legally answer that person's Law SE RSLA?
I hire a lawyer for legal issue ABC.
I post a request for specific legal advice on Law Stack Exchange about unrelated legal issue XYZ. I do not tell my lawyer about it; neither of us knows that the ...
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Is a person serving a property owner with notice of a lawsuit excempt from trespassing charges?
If John sues Bob, and he walks past Bob's "POSTED - NO TRESPASSING" sign up to his door to serve him notice of the lawsuit, Bob says "Get off my property!" before realizing why ...
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Is it legal to use someone else's credit card with permission?
Is it legal to use someone else's credit card with their permission? What about forging a signature, also with permission?
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Is there consideration if one item is given from someone who doesn't want it to someone who does?
Suppose I have an old refrigerator that no longer works. I don't want it, and would pay someone to take it; its value to me is negative. But my neighbor has an appliance repair company. My ...
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How can a minor own and operate an LLC with as little adult involvement as possible?
Note: I am going to talk to a lawyer before I actually do this, but I would like to have some idea of the best option before I start.
If a minor wants to start a business selling things on eBay as an ...
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Can an LLC operating agreement specify that one member pays all the taxes?
Is it possible, in an LLC with two members, for all of the taxes to "pass through" to one of the members, resulting in the LLC having no effect on the other member's taxes? The non-tax-...
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Is a Windows license valid on a "computer of Theseus"?
If I buy a computer with a Windows license, and then replace every part of the computer one at a time (cloning the old hard drive to the new one then erasing the old one, or reinstalling Windows on my ...
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Is it legal to reverse-engineer and reimplement a file format?
If I reverse engineer a file format used by proprietary software and write (a) a specification and (b) a third-party program for reading and writing the format, and I publish both (a) and (b) online ...
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Is it legal to include a crypto miner in published software?
If I publish a program (say a text editor), and I include a cryptocurrency miner that puts all of the coins in my wallet (and the mining itself does not accomplish anything that benefits the user, e.g....
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Is it legal to accidentally hunt on private property?
I know, from this question it is not illegal to be on private property without permission if you do not know and could not reasonably be expected to know that it is private property. Does this apply ...
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Is it legal to make false advertising claims but give the correct info in small print?
2 Terabyte Solid State Drive - only $20!
(product is actually a 100 gigabyte hard disk drive)
Would that ad be legal?
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Could a company specializing in social networking offer a "dealer free" gun transfer service?
This is a followup to this question about trading firearms between individuals in Oregon.
An answer says
Apart from transfers to and from the government, you can freely transfer a firearm under ...
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Are emojis acceptable in contracts?
If I ✍️ a 📄 using emojis instead of words, does that affect the validity of the 📄?
Mary will only use the 🔑 to open the front 🚪 of John's 🏡 in order to feed his 🐈. Mary will feed the 🐈 three ...
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Is it legal to use mousetraps without a hunting license?
Is it legal to use mousetraps in Oregon without a hunting license? AFAIK mice are an unprotected species, so there are no bag limits or seasons and mouse tags are not required, and it's not a problem ...
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Can one individual (not a dealer) give or sell a firearm to another individual without reporting the transaction?
Can one individual give a gun to another individual without filing any paperwork or doing a background check in Oregon?
What if the recipient is a minor?
What about selling the gun?
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Can statements used in one's defence in one trial be used as evidence against the defendent in another trial?
John broke into Mary's car and James robbed ABC Bank at the same time. John and James are both suspects in the ABC Bank case, but nobody has any idea who broke into Mary's car. If John says at his ...
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How can a minor void a contract?
What are the requirements for a minor to void a voidable contract? Just contact the other party and say "our contract is void," and stop receiving benefits and fulfilling obligations?
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Where exactly do speed limits start in Oregon?
This question has already been asked, but that question did not specify a jurisdiction. I'm specifically asking about Oregon.
Where exactly does a new speed limit zone start in relation to the sign? ...
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Does a "no hunting" sign on its own imply other activities are okay?
If a property has a "No Hunting" sign but not a "No Trespassing" sign, is it legal to go on that property for reasons other than hunting?
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Is accidental, unknowing tresspassing possible?
John is hunting on public land. If John accidentally crosses an unmarked property line of which he is not aware onto Joe's property, is he trespassing?
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Obnoxiously loud music from a festival
There's a local annual festival that plays their music really loudly. I can hear it from three and a half miles away, and it's really annoying. There are houses just a few hundred feet away; I'm sure ...
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Is it legal to intentionally cause a probably non-fatal accident to prevent a likely fatal accident?
(sorry about the really bad drawing)
Two cars, A and B, are at an intersection. A is stopped at a stop sign; B is moving and does not have a stop sign. Across the intersection from B, there is a ...
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If someone forges someone else's signature, is the actual signer bound to the contract?
John signs a contract with Jane to buy a car, but he forges Joe's signature. Obviously, Joe isn't bound to the contract (at least, if he can prove he didn't sign it). Is John bound by it?
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What happens if a debt is denominated in something that does not have a clear value?
If I understand correctly, any debt in the US can be paid in paper US dollars. If the denomination of the debt is Bitcoin, gallons of gasoline, ounces of gold, pallets of smartphones, or anything else,...
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Can installing Linux on a computer void its warranty for a hardware problem that is obviously entirely unrelated to software?
I bought a new Windows laptop recently and immediately disabled Secure Boot and installed Linux. Today, a screw fell out of the laptop. Obviously, installing Linux had absolutely nothing to do with ...
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Is it legal to create a cryptocurrency?
I want to create a new cryptocurrency as an experiment. Is this legal?
My cryptocurrency won't use a blockchain, so laws specifically regulating blockchains might not apply.
The system will be ...
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What happens if you are convicted and put on probation in a state you don't live in?
How is probation handled when the offender commits a crime in one state, but lives in another?
For example - a DUI usually does not involve a jail/prison sentence, but probation. While on vacation in ...
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