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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 - Indiana fails 2009 Sunshine Week survey
Posted on March 15, 2009The Sunshine Week 2009 Survey of State Govt. Info. Online reports:The Sunshine Week 2009 Survey of State Government Information online...
Ind. Law - "Indiana fire codes could be tougher" says Star. And they could be accessible, says ILB
Posted on March 15, 2009That is the headline to a lengthy story today in the Indianapolis Star, reported by Bill Ruthhart. The story compares...
Ind. Courts - More on: State workers lawsuit for back pay during 1973-1993 period begins
Posted on March 14, 2009Updating this ILB entry from March 10th, the Indianapolis Star has this brief item today:A Marion Superior Court judge won't...
Ind. Courts - Indianapolis Central library lawsuit begins in Boone County courtroom
Posted on March 14, 2009Updating this ILB entry from March 9th, Jon Murray reports today in the Indianapolis Star:The first week of testimony in...
Ind. Decisions - Muncie attorney Michael J. Alexander found not guilty of conspiring to bribe a witness in a client's criminal case
Posted on March 14, 2009Rick Yencer reports today in the Muncie Star-Press. A quote from the lengthy story:MUNCIE -- After four days of testimony,...
Ind. Courts - "Lawyers have loaded the Hammond federal court docket with lawsuits claiming debt collectors are working outside the law"
Posted on March 14, 2009Dan Hinkel reports in a developing story on the NWI Times site, headed "As debt load rises, so do abuses."...
Ind. Law - More on: "Senate gives 'green light' to red-light cameras"
Posted on March 14, 2009Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 18th about red-light cameras, the Elkhart Truth today has an AP story by Nigel...
Courts - "Appeal says juror sent 'tweets' during $12.6M case "
Posted on March 14, 2009Jon Gambrell of the AP has a story that reports: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A building materials company and...
Environment - "Dr. Anderson at first couldn?t figure out why he was seeing patient after patient with MRSA in a small Indiana town"
Posted on March 14, 2009A reader has pointed me to an op-ed piece by Nicholas D. Kristof in the March 11th issue of the...
Ind. Courts - "Lawyer arrested after not completing community service"
Posted on March 14, 2009A brief story today from today's Richmond Palladium-Item:Lawyer Eric S. Crockett, 1619 N. Centerville Road, was arrested Thursday on a...
Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court tax decision posted late today re issue preclusion
Posted on March 13, 2009In Miller Brewing Co. v. Ind. Dept. Revenue, an 11-page, 5-0 decision, the Tax Court?s denial of Miller's motion for...
Courts - More on: "Lawyers difficult to obtain in immigration cases"
Posted on March 13, 2009Updating this ILB entry from Sept. 3, 2008, Nina Bernstein of the NY Times has a story today headed "In...
Ind. Courts - More mold found at Porter County courthouse
Posted on March 13, 2009Bob Kasarda reports today in the NWI Times:VALPARAISO | The county is again responding to a mold problem at the...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 2 today (and 8 NFP)
Posted on March 13, 2009For publication opinions today (2): Two interesting opinions today, dealing with the old and the new: the Railroad Rights-of-Way Act;...
Ind. Courts - "Angry Lake County judge jails missing juror"
Posted on March 13, 2009Ruth Ann Krause reports today in the Gary Post-Tribune:Lake Superior Court Judge Clarence Murray sentenced a 20-year-old Schererville man to...
Environment - State legislation re the financing of a coal-to-gas plant near Rockport close to passage
Posted on March 13, 2009Updating the second half of this ILB entry from March 8th, Mark Wilson reports today in the Evansville Courier &...
Courts - "How Obama Will Handle U.S. Attorney Posts Still Unclear"
Posted on March 13, 2009The Washington Post this morning has this story by Carrie Johnson that begins:One of the better spoils of winning the...
Ind. Courts - Yet more on: Training on new loan modification programs [Updated]
Posted on March 13, 2009Updating earlier ILB entries on training and CLEs available to Indiana attorneys for education on how to handle mortgage...
Ind. Courts - Disciplinary Commission Panel to review complaint against Delaware County Prosecutor McKinney
Posted on March 13, 2009Rick Yencer of the Muncie Star-Press reports today:The Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission will decide whether Delaware County Prosecutor Mark...
Courts - Seymour-based Rose Acre Farms takings judgment reversed by Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit [Updated]
Posted on March 13, 2009An opinion yesterday by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a much litigated dispute, about...
Not Law - More on: Evansville C&P reporter Bryan Corbin leaves paper
Posted on March 13, 2009On March 10 the ILB posted this entry, about Bryan Corbin of the Evansville Courier & Press announcing that he...
Law - "President Obama on Wednesday issued his first signing statement, reserving a right to bypass dozens of provisions in a $410 billion government spending bill even as he signed it into law"
Posted on March 12, 2009Updating this ILB entry from March 9th, headed "Don?t Rely on Bush?s Signing Statements, Obama Orders," and this March 10th...
Ind. Courts - More on: "More and more finding themselves in bankruptcy court"
Posted on March 12, 2009Updating yesterday's ILB entry on Judge Basil H. Lorch's busy federal bankruptcy court in New Albany, Andy Grimm has a...
Ind. Courts - More on "House overwhelmingly passes measure to elect jurists in St. Joe County"
Posted on March 12, 2009Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 13th, Ed Ronco of the South Bend Tribune has this story today. Some quotes:SOUTH...
Ind. Courts - "State Supreme Court rebukes Felts for DWI: Reprimand ends punishment for Circuit judge"
Posted on March 12, 2009Rebecca S. Green's report this morning in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette begins:The Indiana Supreme Court issued a public reprimand...
Ind. Courts - "Girl sues Lebanon Schools for right to wear tuxedo to prom"
Posted on March 12, 2009So reads the headline to this story by Andy Gammil, on the lengthy front-page of today's Indianapolis Star. The story...
Ind. Courts - County Council lays off two employees in the Warrick County Prosecutor?s Office
Posted on March 12, 2009From the Boonville Standard / Newburgh Register, a report by Timothy Young includes these quotes:The day that has been lingering...
Courts - A copy of Bernard Madoff's plea allocution
Posted on March 12, 2009More or less, how he did it. From the WSJ Law Blog - access it here....
Ind. Courts - Fraud Investigation by State Securities Office, and a Mis-step
Posted on March 12, 2009Yesterday Secretary of State Todd Rokita's office sent out a press release announcing:Investigators and attorneys from Indiana Secretary of State...
Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit issues two Indiana decisions
Posted on March 12, 2009In U.S. v. Terri Sawyer (SD Ind. Judge McKinney), a 19-page opinion, Judge Flaum writes: Terri Sawyer was convicted for...
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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....








