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Ind. Law - "New Indiana law may violate students rights "
Posted on May 20, 2009From an editorial today in The Exponent, Purdue's independent daily student newspaper:With all the increasing protections for teachers in a...
Courts - "No More Mr. Nice Guy: The Supreme Court?s stealth hard-liner."
Posted on May 19, 2009That is the title of Jeffrey Toobin's upcoming lengthy article on Chief Justice John Roberts, available here from the New...
Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court decides four today, including a website business dispute, and a reading of the expungement statute
Posted on May 19, 2009In Gary Community School Corporation v. Tom Powell, a 14-page, 4-1 opinion, Justice Boehm writes:We hold that an employee filling...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 0 today (and 7 NFP)
Posted on May 19, 2009For publication opinions today (0): NFP civil opinions today (3): In the Matter of the Paternity of: N.B.; J.W. v....
Courts - "U.S., States Join Lawsuits On Wyeth Drug Sales"; Indiana has joined
Posted on May 19, 2009Avery Johnson reports today in the Wall Street Journal:The Justice Department and 16 states joined two whistleblower lawsuits alleging that...
Ind. Law - "Mitchell could reauthorize golf carts on town streets under new law"
Posted on May 19, 2009Krystal Shetler of the Bedford Times-Mail ($$) reports today:MITCHELL ? Golf carts may be a go in Mitchell soon, thanks...
Courts - More on "A Standard for Fair Trials"
Posted on May 19, 2009Yesterday in a very brief entry the ILB linked to a column in the Washington Post proposing new rules to...
Ind. Courts - Still more on: Emergency "bonding-out rule" signed Thursday by the judges of St. Joseph Superior Court
Posted on May 19, 2009Updating earlier ILB entries from May 16th and May 17th, Alicia Gallegos of the South Bend Tribune has a long...
Courts - Kentucky State police must provide LJC with sex-offender database
Posted on May 19, 2009This is an interesting story from Kentucky re access to public records that are maintained on governmental databases. The ILB...
Ind. Decisions - Upcoming oral arguments this week and next
Posted on May 18, 2009This week's oral arguments before the Supreme Court (week of 5/18/09): None currently scheduled. Next week's oral arguments before the...
Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending May 15, 2009
Posted on May 18, 2009Here is the Clerk's transfer list for the week ending May 15, 2009. It is three pages long. One case...
Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court denies cert in Indiana wine shipping case
Posted on May 18, 2009Page 3 of the US Supreme Court's order list for today, May 18, 2009, includes Baude v. Heath (08-1004) among...
Courts - Who law professors would nominate; searching for the Achilles' heel on Souter's possible replacement
Posted on May 18, 2009Two interesting stories today from The National Law Journal. Marcia Coyle's report is headed: "An alternative short list for the...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 3 today (and 10 NFP)
Posted on May 18, 2009For publication opinions today (3): In Mercantile National Bank of Hammond, et al. v. Robert Underwood , a 12-page pinion,...
Ind. Law - "Lawmaker adding 'doomsday' to budget planning: Checks if state may tap reserve to stop shutdown"
Posted on May 18, 2009Eric Bradner writes today in the Evansville Courier & Press:INDIANAPOLIS ? A top Senate Republican budget negotiator says he is...
Courts - Yet more on: NY high court rules police need warrants for GPS trackers
Posted on May 18, 2009Updating three ILB entries, all on the NY high court decision last week, Yvonne Zipp, Correspondent of The Christian Science...
Courts - "NAACP Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Revisit Photo-ID at Polls"
Posted on May 17, 2009This today from Richard Winger's Ballot Access News:The NAACP of Georgia is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its...
Ind. Law - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette opines on Daniels' vetos
Posted on May 17, 2009"Perplexing voting veto" is the headline to an editorial today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. Some quotes:Last week, Gov....
Law - "Storm of taxation threatens to swamp Internet"; Indiana connection
Posted on May 17, 2009James G. Lakely of the Heartland Institute in Chicago and managing editor of InfoTech & Telecom News. has this opinion...
Ind. Courts - More on: Emergency "bonding-out rule" signed Thursday by the judges of St. Joseph Superior Court
Posted on May 17, 2009Updating this ILB entry from yesterday, today Sue Lowe reports in the South Bend Tribune:SOUTH BEND ? There were two...
Courts - "A Standard for Fair Trials"
Posted on May 16, 2009Albert D. Brault and Timothy F. Maloney of the American College of Trial Lawyers have a column today in the...
Ind. Decisions - "Court says challenge to hog farm can go on"
Posted on May 16, 2009The Court of Appeals decision yesterday in the case of Benton County Remonstrators v. Board of Zoning Appeals of Benton...
Ind. Decisions - "Gary loses round in casino cash clash"
Posted on May 16, 2009The Court of Appeals decision Thursday in the case of City of Gary v. Majestic Star Casino (ILB summary here)...
Ind. Decisions - "Hoosier Lottery settles federal lawsuit"
Posted on May 16, 2009Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star reports today:Discrimination lawsuits filed after a 2005 shakeup in the Hoosier Lottery have cost...
Court - Judge Diane Wood "Often Spars With Conservative Colleagues on the 7th Circuit"
Posted on May 16, 2009From a lengthy story today in the Washington Post, reported by Peter Slevin:CHICAGO -- The verbal sparring began quickly. Less...
Ind. Courts - Emergency "bonding-out rule" signed Thursday by the judges of St. Joseph Superior Court
Posted on May 16, 2009Pablo Rios reports today in the South Bend Tribune:Before a new emergency rule was signed Thursday in St. Joseph Superior...
Ind. Decisions - Still more on: "Hoosier Lottery settles federal lawsuit"
Posted on May 16, 2009Here is the May 9th settlement document in the Hoosier Lottery case....
Ind. Decisions - More on: "Hoosier Lottery settles federal lawsuit"
Posted on May 16, 2009Updating this ILB entry from earlier today, Peter Schnitzler of the Indianapolis Business Journal has a comprehensive story on the...
Environment - "Well project tests storage of carbon dioxide"
Posted on May 15, 2009James Bruggers, environmental reporter for the Louisville Courier Journal, has a long and informative article today on testing of underground...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 3 today, including opinions dealing with BMV/SSA and with CAFO zoning (and 5 NFP)
Posted on May 15, 2009For publication opinions today (3): In Lyn Leone, Omari Vaden, et al v. Commissioner, Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, et...
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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?
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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....








