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Courts - Even more on: "You don?t see newspapers fighting to open court proceedings the way they used to, and people are starting to notice"
Posted on September 04, 2009That title is from a column by Adam Liptak of the NY Times, discussed in this ILB entry Sept. 1st,...
Ind. Gov't. - More on: "Indiana Funds May Not Be Done with Chrysler"
Posted on September 04, 2009This June 24th ILB entry quoted a Business Week story that began: "Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock is contemplating yet another...
Ind. Courts - Howard County Judge Jessup criticizes prosecutors? procedures
Posted on September 03, 2009The Kokomo Perspective today has a story that begins:Editor?s note: When Superior Court II Judge Stephen Jessup presented his court?s...
Courts - PACER to List ?Sealed vs. Sealed? Cases
Posted on September 03, 2009Supplementing recent ILB entries on PACER from Sept. 2, Aug. 26, and March 1, here is some information I just...
Ind. Gov't. - "Failed Minn. health software ends up in court "
Posted on September 03, 2009From the Houston Chronicle, a story by Martiga Lohn begins: ST. PAUL, Minn. ? Six years and more than $30...
Ind. Law - "Sex offender ban gains steam"; "The Supreme Court did not provide guidance on this issue . . . by refusing to hear an appeal"
Posted on September 03, 2009Robert Annis reports today in the Indianapolis Star:Lebanon may follow the lead of several other area municipalities in banning sex...
Ind. Decisions - Two today from the Supreme Court
Posted on September 03, 2009In Mahmoud M. Basileh v. Arwa G. Alghusain, a 10-page, 5-0 opinion, Justice Rucker writes:In this post-dissolution action the Indiana...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 0 today (and 5 NFP)
Posted on September 03, 2009For publication opinions today (0): NFP civil opinions today (3): Michael England v. Lori England n/k/a Lori Alicea (NFP) -...
Courts - "Pfizer Inc. to pay Indiana nearly $3.7 million in historic settlement"
Posted on September 03, 2009From a NY Times story by Gardiner Harris headed "Pfizer Pays $2.3 Billion to Settle Marketing Case ":WASHINGTON ? The...
Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit issues long-awaited decision in Annex Books
Posted on September 03, 2009This ILB entry from August 24th was headed "Annex Books and New Albany DVD still awaiting decisions; September will mark...
Ind. Gov't. - More on: "Indiana Funds May Not Be Done with Chrysler"
Posted on September 03, 2009This June 24th ILB entry quoted a Business Week story that began: "Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock is contemplating yet another...
Courts - Still more on: "You don?t see newspapers fighting to open court proceedings the way they used to, and people are starting to notice"
Posted on September 02, 2009Updating this ILB entry from yesterday about judges closed the courtroom during jury selection -- the entry ended with a...
Courts - Federal court officials recoil at RECAP
Posted on September 02, 2009Recall this ILB entry from August 26th headed "Changes in store for PACER?" and this one from March 1 quoting...
Ind. Gov't. - New public access counselor, and new head of DFI, named by Governor [Updated]
Posted on September 02, 2009Here is the press release:Governor Mitch Daniels today named former bank executive David Mills as director of the Indiana Department...
Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court decides one
Posted on September 02, 2009in Robert Rovai v. Ann Marie Rovai, a 5-page, 5-0 opinion, Chief Justice Shepard writes:Employing an arrangement relatively common to...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 4 today (and 12 NFP)
Posted on September 02, 2009For publication opinions today (4): This case, Bradley G. Shively v. State of Indiana , brings up the issues relating...
Law - "Case Shows Limits of Sex Offender Alert Programs "
Posted on September 02, 2009The NY Times' Monica Davis reported yesterday, Sept. 1:In all 50 states, registries of sex offenders have grown sophisticated and...
Ind. Decisions - More on: "Sex offender ID law misapplied, higher court says"
Posted on September 02, 2009Updating this ILB entry from Julu 10th, Sophia Voravong of the Lafayette Journal Courier reports today:A convicted sex offender who...
Ind. Gov't. - "Could Muncie Mayor Sharon McShurley lose her home?"
Posted on September 02, 2009Nick Werner of the Muncie Star-Press reports today in a story that begins:MUNCIE -- A dispute over Mayor Sharon McShurley's...
Law - "Blast faxes" and Robo-Calls
Posted on September 01, 2009Stories today: "Attorney General Greg Zoeller applauds efforts by federal government to ban robo calls" - From the press release:?There...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 0 today (and 1 NFP)
Posted on September 01, 2009For publication opinions today (0): NFP civil opinions today (0): NFP criminal opinions today (0): Philandra A. McMurthy-Young v. State...
Ind. Decisions - Four 7th Circuit opinions today involving Indiana cases
Posted on September 01, 2009U.S. v. Garcia (SD Ind., Judge Tinder) - Judge Kanne writes:Paula Alvarez, Dustin Decker, and Saul Garcia were part...
Courts - More on: "You don?t see newspapers fighting to open court proceedings the way they used to, and people are starting to notice"
Posted on September 01, 2009This ILB entry yesterday quoted from an article by Adam Liptak of the NY Times, which centered on: the case...
Ind. Law - It's the Law: Part 2 of "Death penalty explained in three parts"
Posted on September 01, 2009Ken Kosky's "It's the Law" column in the NWI Times this week is the second of a three-part series on...
Ind. Gov't. - "Hoosier welfare winners and losers"
Posted on September 01, 2009The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette has a strong editorial today about the state's welfare privatization contract. The long column concludes:USDA,...
Ind. Decisions - Another NFP COA decision reclassified
Posted on September 01, 2009Ind. Decisions - Another NFP COA decision reclassified The case is Darrolyn Ross, et al v. Sheila Rudolph, Luvenia Kilpatrick,...
Environment - "Kentucky and Indiana lead nation in coal ash ponds"
Posted on September 01, 2009James Bruggers reports in the Louisville Courier Journal - here are some quotes:Indiana and Kentucky are the nation's top two...
Courts - "D.C. Circuit Begins Mandatory Electronic Filing "
Posted on September 01, 2009The Blog of Legal Times has posted this report by Mike Scarcella:The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit...
Ind. Decisions - "Lap-Band Surgery to be Covered By Pizza Shop"
Posted on September 01, 2009The August 6th COA decision in PS2, LLC, D/B/A Boston's Gourmet Pizza v. Adam Childers (ILB summary here) is the...
Ind. Courts - "In court case about path, a loss looks a lot like a win"
Posted on September 01, 2009Bob Zaltsberg, editor of the Bloomington Herald-Times, reported this story ($$) on August 31st:Jeff Sagarin has been fighting City Hall....
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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....








