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Ind. Decisions - More on: Supreme Court grants transfer with opinion, applying new Appellate Rule 14.1 [Updated]
Posted on April 17, 2009Regarding the Supreme Court opinion today in the case of In Re: T.S.; Indiana Dept. of Child Services, LaPorte County...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 1 today (and 6 NFP)
Posted on April 16, 2009For publication opinions today (1): In Devone Moore v. State of Indiana (Marion Sup. Ct., Judge Certo), a 13-page opinion,...
Ind. Decisions - "Its legal battle lost, library may still have to pay more"
Posted on April 16, 2009Updating this ILB entry from yesterday, Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star has a much-expanded report today on yesterday afternoon's...
Ind. Decisions - More on: Ex-Marion County prosecutor's employee pleads guilty in fatal DUI case
Posted on April 16, 2009Jon Murray has updated yesterday's Indianapolis Star story (ILB entry here). The story today concludes:The May 2007 crash was Record's...
Ind. Law - Still more on: Abortion requirements re hospital admission privileges heard at county level now proposed as state legislation
Posted on April 16, 2009SB 89, which the ILB last wrote about on April 8th, yesterday passed 3rd reading in the second house. From...
Ind. Courts - "Doing the Old Courthouse justice: Bar association raises more than $230,000 for renovations"
Posted on April 16, 2009Jimmy Nesbitt reports today in the Evansville Courier & Press:The Evansville Bar Association has raised more than $230,000 to renovate...
Ind. Courts - Prosecutor Mark McKinney faces more accusations
Posted on April 16, 2009Rick Yencer has this story today in the Muncie Star-Press....
Ind. Decisions - 7th Notes Split Re When a Copyright Registration Application is Complete
Posted on April 16, 2009Yesterday's 7th Circuit decision in the case of Angela Brook-Ngwenya v. Indpls Public Schools (ILB summary) is highlighted today in...
Ind. Decisions - Bloomington utilities not immune from liability
Posted on April 16, 2009Yesterday's Court of Appeals decision in the case of City of Bloomington Utilities Department v. Misty Walter, Micky Day, et...
Ind. Decisions - "Stubborn Fees Case May Have Met Its Match in 7th Circuit"
Posted on April 16, 2009The 7th Circuit decision in Ingersoll v. Baise & Miller, an Illinois case which the ILB mentioned yesterday (here- 2nd...
Ind. Courts - "St. Joe County judges' election bill gets Senate OK"; plus some observations from the ILB
Posted on April 16, 2009Updating earlier ILB entries, including this one from yesterday, Jeff Parrott of the South Bend Tribune has a lengthy story...
Ind. Courts - "Court of appeals deliberating on mayor's election"
Posted on April 15, 2009Updating this ILB entry from Monday, the Court of Appeals yesterday heard oral argument in the Muncie mayoral challenge. Here...
Ind. Courts - NYT editorial lauds 7th Circuit nominee, Judge Hamilton
Posted on April 15, 2009Today the NY Times has an editorial that begins:President Obama has done well with his first judicial nomination ? David...
Courts - More on: Specialty plates questions being heard in 3rd Circuit
Posted on April 15, 2009Updating yesterday's ILB entry, the Washington Post yesterday had a story on special license plates by Maryclaire Dale that began:PHILADELPHIA...
Ind. Courts - "Jury begins deliberations in Central Library fraud lawsuit"
Posted on April 15, 2009Updating earlier ILB entries, Jon Murray reports today in the Indianapolis Star in a story that begins:LEBANON, Ind. -- Attorneys...
Ind. Decisions - "Date Set For Terre Haute Mayor's Case"
Posted on April 15, 2009Oral argument has now been set in the case of Burke v. Bennett -- 84A01-0801-CV-2 -- the Terre Haute mayoral...
Ind. Courts - More on: Wisconsin's diploma privilege under attack
Posted on April 15, 2009Updating this ILB entry from April 11th, Ashby Jones of the WSJ Law Blog wrote yesterday, in an entry that...
Ind. Courts - More on "Court of appeals deliberating on mayor's election"
Posted on April 15, 2009A companion to this entry from earlier today is the editorial in today's Muncie Star-Press headed "Lawsuit's continuation not in...
Ind. Law - "Decision on reverse angle parking pending"
Posted on April 15, 2009Phil Wieland reports today in the NWI Times on "reverse angle parking" - a concept new to the ILB. Some...
Ind. Law - "It's the Law: Firing gun risks felony"
Posted on April 15, 2009Ken Kosky's NWI Times' "It's the Law" column for today, looks at under what circumstances and in what areas it...
Ind. Decisions - Ex-Marion County prosecutor's employee pleads guilty in fatal DUI case
Posted on April 15, 2009The ILB has had numerous entries on the Terry J. Record drunken-driving with fatality case, Here is the initial entry,...
Ind. Courts - More on "Jury begins deliberations in Central Library fraud lawsuit"
Posted on April 15, 2009Updating this entry from this morning, Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star is reporting this afternoon that the library has...
Ind. Courts - Senate passes bill to abolish merit selection of judges in St. Joseph County [Updated]
Posted on April 15, 2009HB 1491, which would abolish merit selection of judges in St. Joseph County, plus create a 6th panel for the...
Law - What can law schools do to help graduating students?
Posted on April 15, 2009From Above the Law, a great entry this afternoon by Elie Mystal that begins:Northwestern University School of Law has stepped...
Courts - "An Argument For More Female Justices"
Posted on April 15, 2009By Dahlia Lithwick, contributing editor for Newsweek and senior writer for Slate.com. Check here for her 17 minute NPR Talk...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 4 today (and 8 NFP)
Posted on April 15, 2009For publication opinions today (4): In City of Bloomington Utilities Department v. Misty Walter, Micky Day, et al, a 13-page...
Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit decides suit against IPS; also an interesting Illinois bankruptcy case
Posted on April 15, 2009Angela Brook-Ngwenya v. Indpls Public Schools (SD Ind., Judge Barker), is a 9-page per curiam opinion: Angela Brooks-Ngwenya claims...
Courts - Still more on Indiana decisions cited in Coleman-Frankin Senate dispute
Posted on April 14, 2009Updating these earlier ILB entries on the Coleman v. Franken U.S. Senate election dispute in Minnesota, Indianapolis attorney Bill Groth...
Ind. Courts - More on: Election of all St. Joseph superior court judges / Creation of 6th district COA panel
Posted on April 14, 2009HB 1491 passed second reading in the Senate yesterday and is on the calendar today (p. 6) for a final...
Ind. Decisions - More on: Transfer list for week ending April 9, 2009
Posted on April 14, 2009A reader points out a case of note I overlooked in the summary of last week's transfer decisions by 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....

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....








