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Courts - Even more on: NY high court rules police need warrants for GPS trackers
Posted on July 02, 2009Updating this ILB entry from May 18th, Sherry F. Colb, Professor of Law and Charles Evans Hughes Scholar at Cornell...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 1 today (and 8 NFP)
Posted on July 02, 2009For publication opinions today (1): In David and Connie Long v. IVC Industrial Coatings Inc., et al. , a 17-page...
Ind. Decisions - Two today from the 7th Circuit
Posted on July 02, 2009In Glaser v. Wound Care consultants (SD Ind., Judge McKinney), a 31-page opinion, Judge Sykes writes:Carol Glaser received medical...
Law - Passes NY bar, but denied character and fitness approval because of amount of outstanding student loan
Posted on July 02, 2009Or, as the headline in the NY Times story by Jonathan D. Glater reads, "Finding Debt a Bigger Hurdle Than...
Courts - Suit against Kentucky newspaper to reveal anonymous poster's identity
Posted on July 02, 2009Jason Riley has this story today in the Louisville Courier Journal, under the headline "EKU student sues over anonymous post."...
Courts - "Tweeting, Texting, Googling Banned for Mich. Jurors"
Posted on July 02, 2009Tresa Baldas of The National Law Journal has this long story today. A quote:The Michigan Supreme Court has laid the...
Environment - More on "Federal judge won't block BP refinery expansion"
Posted on July 02, 2009Updating yesterday's ILB entry, Gitte Laasby of the Gary Post-Tribune has this story today. Here is a quote:U.S. District Court...
Courts - "Supreme Court Closes Deeply Divided Term"
Posted on July 02, 2009Listen to Nina Totenberg's nearly 8 minute wrapup of the SCOTUS term here, on NPR....
Ind. Courts - "Marion County Public Defender On Leave After Arrest: Lawyer Accused Of Breaking Into Home, Battery"
Posted on July 02, 2009Jack Rinehart of INDY 6 News has this story this evening....
Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending July 2, 2009
Posted on July 02, 2009No need this week to wait till Monday/ Here is the Clerk's transfer list for the week ending July 2,...
Ind. Decisions - More on: Upcoming oral arguments this week and next
Posted on July 01, 2009The schedule posted Monday by the ILB has been updated to add a Court of Appeals argument set for July...
Courts - "Ohio Plaintiff in Private Lawsuit Has No Right to Discover Confidential Medical Records of Non-Parties"
Posted on July 01, 2009Recalling these ILB entries from late 2006, under the heading "The Planned Parenthood Records Decision" (wherein the Indy Star wrote:...
Law - "Jackson?s Will Could Set Off Legal Battle Over Estate"; well duh!
Posted on July 01, 2009On Nov. 28, 2007, the ILB wrote:The Brooke Astor estate dispute promises to become the stuff of trusts and estates...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 2 today (and 8 NFP)
Posted on July 01, 2009For publication opinions today (2): In Martin Oil Marketing, LTD and Speedway SuperAmerica, LLC v. John L. Katzioris , a...
Ind. Decisions - Supreme court posts one from yesterday and one for today
Posted on July 01, 2009State of Indiana v. Anthony W. Pollard is the opinion I wrote up here yesterday, although it hadn't been posted,...
Ind. Decisions - "What's next for David Camm? Case may not be remanded to trial court until fall"
Posted on July 01, 2009Matt Thacker of the New Albany N & T has this story today. Some quotes:After two trials and two convictions...
Ind. Law - "Ex-state rep. Oxley charged over claim"
Posted on July 01, 2009Updating this ILB entry from June 28th, Jon Murray reports today in the Indianapolis Star:The Marion County prosecutor filed charges...
Ind. Courts - Still more on: A bizarre story this afternoon involving the wife of a Marion Superior Court judge
Posted on July 01, 2009Updating this ILB entry from yesterday, Jon Murray reports today in the Indianapolis Star:Kristina H. Nelson, 43, who is the...
Environment - More on "A Rough Term in Supreme Court for Environmentalists Draws to a Close"
Posted on July 01, 2009Updating this ILB entry from June 26th, Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal has a story today headed "High...
Ind. Decisions - "Supreme Court won't shift casino funds to E.C."
Posted on July 01, 2009The Supreme Court's decision yesterday in the case of East Chicago v. East Chicago Second Century, Inc. (ILB summary here),...
Ind. Courts - "State targets prosecutor's lapsed license"
Posted on July 01, 2009Ruth Ann Krause reports today in the Gary Post-Tribune:Newton County Prosecutor J. Edward Barce, who is serving as special prosecutor...
Environment - Still more on: "EPA secrecy on coal-ash list worries lawmakers: Some of 44 'high hazard' sites might be in Kentucky, Indiana"
Posted on July 01, 2009Updating this ILB entry from Monday, Shaila Dewan of the NY Times has a story today on the EPA list....
Environment - "Federal judge won't block BP refinery expansion"
Posted on July 01, 2009So reports the AP this morning in a brief story. A quote:Judge Philip Simon in Hammond dismissed the Natural Resources...
Ind. Law - More on new laws taking effect July 1
Posted on July 01, 2009"New batch of laws go into effect today" is the headline to this story today in the Indianapolis Star, written...
Courts - "Is Melendez-Diaz already endangered?"
Posted on July 01, 2009Monday the SCOTUS has decided the case of Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts (07-591), on whether a state forensic analyst?s laboratory report...
Ind. Courts - Injunction against Governor not needed after all, but interesting
Posted on July 01, 2009Dave Stafford of the Anderson Herald Bulletin reported yesterday:Fearing lawmakers might fail to produce a budget, Hoosier Park and other...
Ind. Courts - More on: A bizarre story this afternoon involving the wife of a Marion Superior Court judge
Posted on June 30, 2009Updating this entry, Jon Murray reports this afternoon:A senior judge today asked the Indiana Supreme Court to appoint a special...
Ind. Decisions - A second opinion today from the Supreme Court
Posted on June 30, 2009In East Chicago v. East Chicago Second Century, Inc., a 21-page, 4-1 opinion, Chief Justice Shepard writes:When riverboat gambling came...
Ind. Decisions - Two Indiana opinions today from the 7th Circuit
Posted on June 30, 2009In U.S. v. Rolls-Royce (SD Ind. Judge Barker), a 13-page opinion (that is not readily summarized) from a panel including...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 8 today (and 24 NFP)
Posted on June 30, 2009For publication opinions today (8): Francis W. Splittorff v. Jerry Aigner, Pam Aigner and Beverly Childs - "Splittorff cannot prevail...
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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....








