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Law - "Inflation Conversion Factors for Dollars -- 1774 to Estimated 2019"
Posted on September 30, 2009This very useful website is the work of Robert Sahr, Associate Professor of Politcal Science at Oregon State University. If...
Ind. Law - More on: "Did an amendment to this year?s state budget open the door to tax refunds for nursing homes across the state?"
Posted on September 30, 2009Updating this ILB entry from earlier today, I've tried my hand at reading SECTION 479. Here is what I've come...
Ind. Courts - More on: DOJ Files Lawsuit Against Indianapolis Law Firm to Enforce the Employment Rights of Indiana Army National Guardsman
Posted on September 30, 2009Remember this story from March 16th? The DOJ put out this release:WASHINGTON, March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice...
Law - Yet more on "Amazon's Kindle to Sell Law Books" and the implications
Posted on September 29, 2009Updating these earlier ILB entries, today a report in The Daily Princetonian on a Kindle trial there. Hyung Lee writes,...
Courts - More on upcoming SCOTUS term
Posted on September 29, 2009The WSJ Law Blog has this entry today, "Pre-Gaming the 2009-10 Term." From the WSJ itself today, a long article...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 2 today (and 0 NFP)
Posted on September 29, 2009For publication opinions today (2): In Scott Ruse v. Mark Bleeke/Scott Ruse v. Terry Parrish, an 18-page opinion, Judge Kirsch...
Ind. Decisions - "Supreme Court upholds conviction of South Bend molester"; some comments on Melendez-Diaz' application in Indiana
Posted on September 29, 2009The ILB has had a number of entries on the case of Richard Pendergrass v. State of Indiana, involving the...
Ind. Decisions - A different take on the COA voter ID decision
Posted on September 29, 2009The Court of Appeals Sept. 17th decision in League of Women Voters v. Todd Rokita has been the subject of...
Ind. Decisions - Another NFP COA decision reclassified
Posted on September 29, 2009The case is Edwin Berberena v. State of Indiana (49A02-0901-CR-87 ) - 2-1 NFP opinion issued 7/23/09; Appellant's motion to...
Law - "A new push to define 'person,' and to outlaw abortion in the process"
Posted on September 29, 2009Robin Abcarian reports today in the LA Times - the subhead is "Some abortion foes think the rationale for Roe...
Ind. Decisions - "Child support order was error"
Posted on September 29, 2009The Court of Appeals decision yesterday in the case of M.W. v. State of Indiana (see ILB summary here, 4th...
Law - NY Times on "High Cost of Death Row"
Posted on September 29, 2009A NY Times editorial today begins:To the many excellent reasons to abolish the death penalty ? it?s immoral, does not...
Ind. Law - Two stories on Indiana meth laws
Posted on September 29, 2009This very long story by Lisa Trigg in the Terre Haute Tribune Star, from Sept. 3rd, is headed "Wabash Valley...
Ind. Courts - NEW ILR Article on Developments in Indiana Appellate Procedure
Posted on September 28, 2009This ILB is pleased to post this 34-page 2009 Indiana Law Review article on appellate procedure, authored by Bryan H....
Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending September 25, 2009
Posted on September 28, 2009Here is the Clerk's transfer list for the week ending September 25, 2009. It is four pages long. One...
Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit decides one Indiana case today
Posted on September 28, 2009In U.S. v. Sutton (SD Ind., Judge McKinney), a 12-page opinion, Judge Rovner writes:A jury convicted Varnador Sutton of...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 4 today (and 5 NFP)
Posted on September 28, 2009For publication opinions today (4): In Indiana High School Athletic Association, Inc. v. Gregory S. Schafer, et al , a...
About this Blog - Again, please sign on as annual ILB supporter
Posted on September 28, 2009Don't know how you kept up before the Indiana Law Blog? Are you an Indiana Law Blog addict? Does someone...
Courts - "The Case of the Plummeting Supreme Court Docket "
Posted on September 28, 2009The NY Times' Adam Liptak's "Sidebar" column today begins:In the early 1980s, the Supreme Court decided more than 150 cases...
Ind. Gov't. - "Jeffersonville's sex offender law could get update"
Posted on September 27, 2009Updating earlier ILB entries mentioning the Jeffersonville sex offender ban, today David Mann of the Jeffersonville News & Tribune reports:The...
Ind. Courts - "Indiana small claims courts a return to debtors' prison?"
Posted on September 27, 2009An important story today in the Evansville Courier & Press, reported by Roberta Heinman ("Special to the Courier & Press"...
Courts - "High Court Justices to Take Up Lawyer Ethics, Errors: Six cases on the calendar will have direct consequences for the practice of law"
Posted on September 27, 2009Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal reports in a story dated Sept. 28. The lengthy report begins:How lawyers do...
Ind. Courts - "Judge Spencer tearfully steps down "
Posted on September 27, 2009This lengthy report from Dave Stafford of the Anderson Herald Bulletin - a quote:Spencer?s nearly 40 years of public service...
Courts - Justice Sonia Sotomayor's throws out first pitch, successfully
Posted on September 27, 2009Video from the AP: "Justice Sonia Sotomayor was right down the middle with her ceremonial pitch at Yankee Stadium." Another...
Courts - In Kansas, the Mortgage Machine Backfires; MERS issue raised in Indiana
Posted on September 27, 2009This is a story about MERS (the Mortgage Electronic Registration System) and a Supreme Court decision in Kansas. We've had...
Ind. Gov't. - More on: $40 million spent since passage of 2007 law meant as a bridge to help retired legislators and state employees until they qualify for Medicare
Posted on September 27, 2009This ILB entry from May 31st gives essential background to today's story in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, reported by...
Courts - "Judicial pay disparity drains talent from federal bench"
Posted on September 27, 2009Carol J. Williams reports today in the LA Times:With seven children to care for and a caseload that quadrupled this...
Courts - "The right of students across the country to speak their minds in blogs and text messages at stake"
Posted on September 27, 2009Updating this entry from July 17, 2007, and this one from Feb. 20, 2009, today the Waterbury Connecticut American-Republican has...
Ind. Law - WSJ discovers the "Invasion of the Golf Carts"
Posted on September 26, 2009The ILB has been writing since early 2006 about the increasing interest in the use golf carts on Indiana streets...
Environment - "Hoosier Environmental Council founder heads IU Mauer law school program"
Posted on September 26, 2009Dawn Hewitt reports in the Bloomington Herald-Times in a story ($$) that begins:Carolyn Waldron is the new director of the...
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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....
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