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Focus is on Indiana law, and on interesting developments in law, government, and more (not just in Indiana).
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Ind. Law - More on "Daniels OKs online voter registration"
Posted on May 07, 2009Updating yesterday's entry, the NWI Times story I quoted was wrong. The Governor has not acted on HEA 1346....
Ind. Law - More on: "Police want to add DNA from more people to database"
Posted on May 07, 2009Updating these ILB entries from Feb. 17th and this one from April 20th that begins:Updating this long ILB entry from...
Courts - Blogging about cases pending before the Supreme Court
Posted on May 07, 2009From Howard Bashman's How Appealing this morning:In the April 2009 issue of the Stanford Law Review: Rachel C. Lee...
Law - "More States Start Pension Inquiries "
Posted on May 07, 2009Mary Williams Walsh has a long story today in the NY Times examining fraud related to state pension fund investment...
Courts - "White House Formalizes Supreme Court Short List"
Posted on May 07, 2009ABC News's correspondent Jan Crawford Greenberg reports:The White House has formalized its short list of Supreme Court contenders and asked...
Ind. Courts - "Grand jury indicts LaPorte judge who was shot, her husband"
Posted on May 07, 2009Breaking news from the NWI Times:A LaPorte Superior Court judge who was wounded by a gunshot in her home in...
Ind. Law - Governor signs more bills
Posted on May 07, 2009The Governor today has signed two bills the ILB has been following:HEA 1468 - Animal cruelty and commercial dog breeders...
Courts - More on "A Good Time to Be a Bankruptcy Lawyer"
Posted on May 06, 2009Updating this ILB entry from April 17th, Nathn Koppel writes today in the WSJ Law Blog, in an entry that...
Ind. Decisions - Still more on: "Appeals court calls non-violent protective orders defective"
Posted on May 06, 2009Supplementing this ILB entry from April 30th on the COA's decision April 16th in the case of Moore v. Moore,...
Law - "Gay-rights activists have moved remarkably close to their goal of making same-sex marriage legal throughout New England just five years after Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to allow it"
Posted on May 06, 2009Earlier today Abby Goodnough and Katie Zezima of the NY Times reported:AUGUSTA, Me. ? Gay-rights advocates moved remarkably close to...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 0 today (and 11 NFP)
Posted on May 06, 2009[Note: Links now fixed. Sorry.] For publication opinions today (0): NFP civil opinions today (1): Aaron Israel v. Evelyn Ridley-Turner,...
Ind. Decisions - And yet another NFP COA decision reclassified
Posted on May 06, 2009Updating this ILB entry from May 2nd, which began:The ILB earlier this year began keeping an eye on NFP...
Courts - "Justice Ginsburg: Court needs another woman"
Posted on May 06, 2009Joan Biskupic of USA TODAY reports, in a lengthy story today that begins:WASHINGTON ? Three years after Justice Sandra Day...
Environment - "Experts weigh toxic threat from coal ash: New regulations may consider it hazardous waste"
Posted on May 06, 2009James Bruggers of the Louisville Courier Journal has this story today, that begins:LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A senior U.S. Environmental Protection...
Courts - "National Mock Trial Competition Encounters a Real Legal Challenge "
Posted on May 06, 2009The ILB on March 31st posted this entry on the National High School Mock Trial Competition, headed "Kentucky students' court...
Ind. Decision - Charges dismissed as a result of last week's Supreme Court decision
Posted on May 06, 2009Anna Rochelle of the Greene County Daily World has a report today on the impact of last week's (April...
Ind. Law - "Daniels OKs online voter registration"
Posted on May 06, 2009Patrick Guinane is reporting this evening in the online NWI Times:Registering to vote in Indiana soon will be just a...
Ind. Law - More bills received by the Governor
Posted on May 06, 2009The 2009 Bill Watch on the governor?s Web site has just been updated. Eighty-three bills were received and 33 bills...
Ind. Courts - "A case for veto of court-expansion bill"
Posted on May 05, 2009The ILB has had a long list of entries on HEA 1491, the bill now pending the Governor's signature, that...
Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court issues one today
Posted on May 05, 2009In Samuel Hardley v. State of Indiana, an 11-page, 3-2 opinion, Justice Dickson writes:To address conflicting opinions from the Court...
Ind. Courts - More on: Re the Appellate Clerk's docket, has the other shoe finally dropped?
Posted on May 05, 2009This ILB entry from April 1st began:Almost exactly one year ago, on April 2, 2008, the ILB posted a note...
Ind. Law - "It's the Law: Part 2 of State law allows most tattoos, body piercings"
Posted on May 05, 2009Ken Kosky's NWI Times' "It's the Law" column Monday looked at Indiana's health regulations which govern tattoo parlors and body...
Environment - "Further briefing due in pollution case"
Posted on May 05, 2009This item posted by Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSBlog will be of interest to environmental lawyers -- it deals with the...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 2 today (and 8 NFP)
Posted on May 05, 2009For publication opinions today (2): In Metro Health Professionals, Inc. v. Chrysler, LLC, a 13-page opinion, Judge Brown writes [emphasis...
Ind. Courts - Marion County Traffic Court in the news today
Posted on May 05, 2009Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star has a story today about the scrapping of the plan to move the court...
Courts - "Sixteen Months of Rulings Down the Drain at the NLRB?"
Posted on May 05, 2009Recall this ILB entry from May 1st, headed "Nearly simultaneous, conflicting Circuit Court NLRB opinions issued this afternoon." It included...
Courts - "The tricky sex offender case that could trip up one of the judges on the short list to replace Souter"
Posted on May 05, 2009Remember the 2004 case of John Doe v. City of Lafayette? Here, from Feb. 24, 2005, is an ILB entry...
Environment - Supreme Court Curtails Superfund Liability
Posted on May 04, 2009The SCOTUS decision today in Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway v. United States is the topic of a brief...
Ind. Decisions - Indiana COA decision remanded by SCOTUS today, in light of Arizona v. Gant
Posted on May 04, 2009A reader has just sent me this note:Today, SCOTUS granted certiorari in a case from the Indiana Court of Appeals...
Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending May 1, 2009
Posted on May 04, 2009Here is the Clerk's transfer list for the week ending May 1, 2009. It is three pages long. _________ Transfer...
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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....








