Library Updates

The Law Library will be open during Spring Break ‘07, Mar. 24 – Apr. 1, with altered opening and closing hours.

Lewis & Clark Law School and College students, faculty, staff and the legal community

Hours for the general public and Patent & Trademark Office will remain the same. Regular law library hours resume on Monday, April 2.

Check all of our Law Library Hours, or see when the Watzek Library will be open.

On Monday, March 5 the Oregon Supreme Court will be on campus hearing oral arguments in two cases:

• Costco Wholesale Corp. v. City of Beaverton (9:00 am)
  Statement of Issue: Petitioner City of Beaverton (City) seeks review of a Court of Appeals decision that reversed and remanded, in part, a decision of the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA). More.
• Nakashima v. Oregon State Board of Education (10:30 am)
  Statement of Issue: Petitioners Oregon State Board of Education (Board) and Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) seek review of Court of Appeals decisions that reversed and remanded for reconsideration a decision of the Board that concluded that because plaintiffs’ proposed religious accommodations would impose more than de minimus costs, OSAA did not violate ORS 659.850 in declining to accept one or more of the proposed accommodations. More.

Read more about Nakashima in this article from The Oregonian, Prep athletics- religion case in court today (March 5, 2007).

Briefs for both cases are on reserve at the Law Library. The Court will be holding arguments on the Law School campus in Classroom 1. Overflow seating is available in the student lounge in the Legal research Center. Campus map.