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Courts - More on: Follow the McCafferty murder trial and the media's efforts to cover it via blog and otherwise
Posted on February 27, 2009Ind. Gov't. - State of Indiana employee salaries
Posted on February 26, 2009The Indianapolis Star has updated its database of State of Indiana salaries to cover 2008. Under Ivy Tech, for example,...
Environment - Wood stoves and wood-fired outdoor boilers still a problem
Posted on February 26, 2009The ILB has had dozens of entries, going back as far as Dec. 2005, on the regulation of wood-fired outdoor...
Courts - Follow the McCafferty murder trial and the media's efforts to cover it via blog and otherwise
Posted on February 26, 2009A murder trial underway in Newport, Kentucky - northern Kentucky, near Covington - is getting extensive coverage from the Kentucky...
Ind. Courts - "Monroe to launch new truancy court"
Posted on February 26, 2009A brief item today by Bob Zaltsberg of the Bloomginton Herald-Times:Monroe County will announce Friday that it has launched a...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 6 today (and 21 NFP)
Posted on February 26, 200921 COA opinions yesterday, 27 today -- it must be the end of the month .... For publication opinions today...
Ind. Courts - Training on new loan modification programs
Posted on February 26, 2009"An Update on Foreclosure Prevention through Loss Mitigation and Loan Modifications," sponsored by Indiana Legal Services, Inc. the Indiana Supreme...
Ind. Courts - Settlement avoids judicial mandate action in Hammond
Posted on February 26, 2009Susan Brown has this report today in the NWI Times:HAMMOND | City Court Judge Jeffrey Harkin and the City Council...
Ind. Courts - "What happens when a judge dies?" [Updated]
Posted on February 26, 2009From the Anderson Herald Bulletin, this story by Justin Schneider, supplementing yesterday's story on the sudden death of longtime Madison...
Ind. Law - More on: "House weighing satellite voting bill"
Posted on February 26, 2009Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 24th on HB 1423, Patrick Guinane reports this afternoon in the NWI Times:A fix...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 4 today (and 17 NFP)
Posted on February 25, 2009For publication opinions today (4): In William Lee Pallett v. State of Indiana , a 7-page opinion, Judge May writes:Pallett...
Ind. Courts - "Longtime Madison County Judge David W. Hopper is dead after an apparent heart attack late Tuesday night"
Posted on February 25, 2009From the Anderson Herald Bulletin, this story:ANDERSON ? Longtime Madison County Judge David W. Hopper is dead after an apparent...
Courts - Yet another update on efforts to receive compensation for land taken to build Kentucky Camp Breckenridge
Posted on February 25, 2009This April 20, 2008 ILB entry reported success for Kentucky families' "long legal fight to get compensation for land taken...
Ind. Courts - Two stories today in continuing, and confusing, Delaware County saga
Posted on February 25, 2009Rick Yencer of the Muncie Star-Press reports here under the heading "McKinney asks appeals court to stop possible citation." The...
Ind. Courts - S0uth Bend Tribune editorial opines on judicial mandates
Posted on February 25, 2009For background, see these earlier ILB entries titled "St. Joseph County Probate Judge to issue pay raises despite council's objections."...
Law - "Citing Cost, States Consider End to Death Penalty"
Posted on February 25, 2009That is the headline to this lengthy NY Times story today by Ian Urbina. Some quotes:When Gov. Martin O?Malley appeared...
Law - Dawn Johnsen questioned by Senate committee
Posted on February 25, 2009The confirmation hearing for Indiana University law professor Dawn Johnsen was today. The Blog of LegalTimes has this report today...
Courts - More on: Some Legal Experts Propose Limiting SCOTUS Justices' Powers, Terms
Posted on February 25, 2009Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 23rd, NPR's Talk of the Nation today featured the four proposals for the judiciary....
Ind. Law - Several bills mentioned by ILB pass first house
Posted on February 25, 2009"Pause of welfare rollout approved by House " reports Bryan Corbin. HB 1691 "Livestock bills move to Senate: Efforts to...
Ind. Law - "Senate gives 'green light' to red-light cameras"
Posted on February 24, 2009Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 18th, Richard Gootee of the Indianapolis Star has a background story today on the...
Ind. Courts - "Retired judge will fill in: March 9 is Snow's last day on bench"
Posted on February 24, 2009Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 10th headed "Governor will pick Judge Snow to lead Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission,"...
Environment - "Yet One More Bush EPA Air Rule Goes Down"
Posted on February 24, 2009Interesting post by Jonathan Adler of The Volokh Conspriacy, that includes this statement:[I]t is remarkable how poorly the Bush Administration's...
Ind. Gov. - Still more on: "Who Are These People?"
Posted on February 24, 2009Updaitng this ILB entry from Feb. 20th, the Indianapolis Star today has an editorial headed "Thanks to politics, inefficiency lives."...
Ind. Law - "House weighing satellite voting bill"
Posted on February 24, 2009Recall last fall's Lake County "early voting" case, John B. Curley, et al v. Lake County Board of Elections and...
Ind. Courts - More on: "House overwhelmingly passes measure to elect jurists in St. Joe County"
Posted on February 24, 2009Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 13th, Ed Ronco reports today in the South Bend Tribune in a story that...
Ind. Courts - "Federal district judges sitting by designation with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit"
Posted on February 24, 2009Last evening Howard Bashman of How Appealing noted that Judge Kendall, of the Northern District of Illinois, was sitting by...
Ind. Law - Strengthened public records law passes Senate
Posted on February 24, 2009Eric Bradner and Bryan Corbin of the Evansville C&P update us on that and some other bills here this afternoon....
Courts - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg does not return quietly
Posted on February 24, 2009Many stories today about the return of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (aka "the only woman justice") to the...
Ind. Courts - Muncie mayoral election dispute set for oral argument
Posted on February 24, 2009The Muncie mayoral election dispute has been set for oral argument by the Court of Appeals, sua sponte, for April...
Law - "New Rule Enacted by Bush Administration Impedes Cases Against Nursing Homes"
Posted on February 24, 2009Cindy Skrzycki, business columnist for the Washington Post, reports today in her column, "The Regulators," that:The Bush administration shut off...
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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....








