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Ind. Law - "Judges hope bill restores say in placing juveniles"
Posted on January 31, 2010Niki Kelly of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reports today at length on House Bill 1167, aimed at reversing one...
Ind. Law - More on "Grandparents testify in Indy to establish visitation rights"
Posted on January 31, 2010Updating this ILB entry from Jan. 19, 2010, about SB 59 (which passed third reading in the Senate Jan. 25th...
Ind. Gov't. - "Indiana Embraces Tax Caps Despite Hit to City Services "
Posted on January 31, 2010That is the headline to a long story in the Jan. 30, 2010 WSJ, reported by Amy Merrick. It begins:ndiana...
Ind. Gov't. - According to new report, Counties could save cash with vote centers
Posted on January 31, 2010An AP story in the NWI Times this afternoon begins:INDIANAPOLIS | A new report says all 92 Indiana counties could...
Ind. Law - Student sexting in Indiana, are felonies the answer?
Posted on January 30, 2010Last year the ILB had several entries about "sexting," including this worth reading again entry from March 27, 2009 headed...
Environment - More on: The other side of CAFO manure spills and run-off
Posted on January 30, 2010Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 11, 2009, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette has an editorial today headed "Don?t spread...
Ind. Courts - Continuing with "ACLU Lawsuit claims Indiana law examiners violate the ADA "
Posted on January 30, 2010Updating this Dec. 10, 2009 ILB entry about the lawsuit that, to quote a NLJ story, the ACLU filed:on...
Ind. Gov't - "Mistake found on Indiana tax form"
Posted on January 30, 2010John Paul of WSBT-TV South Bend reports:SOUTH BEND ? There are a lot of details to pay attention to when...
Ind. Decisions - Interesting discovery ruling from SD Ind.
Posted on January 30, 2010An interesting order filed Jan. 29, 2010 in federal court in the case of Mack v. HH Gregg, Inc....
Law - More on: Free Fastcase access on iPhone
Posted on January 30, 2010In this ILB entry on Jan. 28, 2010, I wrote:[The new] free Fastcase iPhone application may be worth the price...
Courts - "PACER: Picking Up the Pace?"
Posted on January 29, 2010The ILB has posted a number of stories critical of PACER (the system that makes federal dockets and documents available...
Ind. Gov't. - Attorney General Greg Zoeller Announces his First-Year Accomplishments and Future Plans
Posted on January 29, 2010Here are the press releases, listing examples of accomplishments in 2009, and goals for 2010....
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 4 today (and 20 NFP)
Posted on January 29, 2010For publication opinions today (4): In Int'l Brotherhood of Elec. Workers, et al. v. Indianapolis Power and Light Co., an...
Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court decides one yesterday
Posted on January 28, 2010In Robert Bules and Brian Bules v. Marshall County and Marshall County Highway Dept., a 7-page, 4-1 opinion, Justice Boehm...
Ind. Decisions - "Corcoran will face a full resentencing"
Posted on January 28, 2010Updating yesterday's ILB entry on the 7th Circuit's decision in the case of Joseph E. Corcoran v. Levenhagen, Rebecca S....
Law - Free Fastcase access on iPhone
Posted on January 28, 2010This free Fastcase iPhone application may be worth the price of an iPhone, or an iTouch (a.k.a. mini-iPad). See Robert...
Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court decides one today
Posted on January 28, 2010In Gina Johnson v. Robert Johnson, an 8-page, 5-0 opinion, Chief Justice Shepard writes:In the course of settling their dissolution,...
Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit decides Indiana Uniform Consumer Credit Code case
Posted on January 28, 2010In Midwest Title Loans v. David H. Mills, Dir, Ind. Dept. Financial Institutions (SD Ind., Judge Barker), a 19-page...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 1 today (and 2 NFP)
Posted on January 28, 2010For publication opinions today (1): In Rusty R. Skinner v. State of Indiana , a 6-page opinion in an interlocutory...
Environment - Still more on "Crawford County residents question biomass power project"
Posted on January 28, 2010Updating this ILB entry from Jan. 20th, Grace Schneider of the Louisville Courier Journal reports today under the headline "Defining...
Ind. Law - "Enforce guns laws, don't keep secrets" Déjà vu?
Posted on January 28, 2010Supplementing this ILB entry from yesterday, today's Indianapolis Star has this editorial that begins:It ought to shock you to know...
Ind. Courts - More on: Oral argument in COA involving the Paternity of Infant R
Posted on January 28, 2010Supplementing this afternoon's ILB entry on the Paternity of Infant R, Charles Wilson of the AP has now written a...
Ind. Courts - "Simon Property caught in family feud"
Posted on January 28, 2010Updating this ILB entry from Jan. 26, which included this quote from the Indianapolis Star:Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group, the world's...
Ind. Courts - Oral argument in COA involving the Paternity of Infant R
Posted on January 28, 2010Today the Court of Appeals heard oral argument in The Paternity of Infant R. (64A03-0908-JV-367). The case summary:T.G. and V.G....
Ind. Gov't. - More on "State will pilot new welfare application system in Evansville area"
Posted on January 27, 2010Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 13, 2009, Ken Kusmer of the AP reports today in a story that begins:INDIANAPOLIS...
Courts - "More court cases to test campaign-finance limits"
Posted on January 27, 2010Supplementing this ILB entry from Jan. 25, 2010, is this long story today by Fredreka Schouten of USA TODAY. Some...
Law - "Northwestern University Law School is offering a ?dovetail? loan forgiveness program that could wipe out all of the student loans for graduates who work in the public sector"
Posted on January 27, 2010That is the lede to this story by Debra Cassens Weiss in the ABA Journal. More:Under a new federal program,...
Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit clears up a jurisdictional question related to the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005
Posted on January 27, 2010Lynne Marek of The National Law Journal has a story today that begins:The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has...
Ind. Law - "Two bad gun laws" moving in the General Assembly
Posted on January 27, 2010The heading of the editorial Jan. 25th in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette was "Two bad gun laws." Some quotes:Americans...
Ind. Courts - "Four lawsuits claim calls violate fed Fair Debt act Cases filed in U.S. District Court in Hammond"
Posted on January 27, 2010Teresa Auch Schultz reports today in the Gary Post-Tribune:Four more region residents have filed federal lawsuits, claiming debt collection companies...
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The plates & registration are currently valid and acknowledged by the state.The issue is these plates were on a car I owned and sold privately and legally.Per the Indiana BMV, I can legally transfer plates,which I did. I
That would depend on if you registered the plate to your new vehicle with the BM...
Can a city library prevent you from using thier facilities based on a school district being from another city reaching into your city?
that seems a little ridiculous that they would do that. libraries are supposed t...
Is it libel to write blog posts and/or online reviews about a local business that defames one's reputation?
Libel is the form of defamation expressed in fixed-- usually written form. Sland...
How can I make my blog more popular?
You have to write and submit articles, with backlinks to your blogsite....

The plates & registration are currently valid and acknowledged by the state.The issue is these plates were on a car I owned and sold privately and legally.Per the Indiana BMV, I can legally transfer plates,which I did. I
That would depend on if you registered the plate to your new vehicle with the BM...
Can a city library prevent you from using thier facilities based on a school district being from another city reaching into your city?
that seems a little ridiculous that they would do that. libraries are supposed t...
Is it libel to write blog posts and/or online reviews about a local business that defames one's reputation?
Libel is the form of defamation expressed in fixed-- usually written form. Sland...
How can I make my blog more popular?
You have to write and submit articles, with backlinks to your blogsite....








