I’m trying to help one of our attorneys here at work find the history of an Oregon Revised Statute on the web and I’m coming up with nothing. I wish I could just go to the state library and poke around there, but I’m stuck here.
Does anyone know of any on-line legal resources that explains the hows and whens and whys of the creation of a law or statute?
Specifically, I’m trying to find information about ORS 656.005(7)(a) which defines a compensable injury as “Accidental injury or accidental injury to prosthetic appliance, arising out of and in the course of employment, requiring medical services or resulting in disability or death.” When was this law written to include “prosthetic appliances”? The earliest cite we can find is (and this is another stumbling block, I can’t read the attorney’s handwriting) Bundy (or Bandy?) v. Norris, Baggs (Biggs? Beggs?) & Simpson, 222 OR 1 (1959). We’re trying to find something about the history of Oregon Workers’ Compensation law and see if there is an earlier case regarding prosthetic appliances.
How do attorneys find this stuff? Am I expecting too much of the web (or, gasp, the Teeming Millions)? Anyone out there want to take a crack at this for the heck of it?
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy