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Environment - "Porter County braces for future in wind power"
Posted on August 25, 2008Charles M. Bartholomew reports in the Gary Post-Tribune:VALPARAISO -- Porter County is in the path of a new industrial wind that's blowing across northern Indiana, driven by funding from foreign-based energy companies. Officials here are feeling the breeze in the...
Ind. Courts - "Fight delays manslaughter trial"
Posted on August 25, 2008Rebecca S. Green of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reported early this afternoon in a brief story that begins:A fistfight at the doors to an Allen County courtroom Monday morning caused a five-month delay in a voluntary manslaughter trial scheduled...
Law - "E-book publisher to pay $50K to settle piracy claim"
Posted on August 25, 2008Tom Spalding of the Indianapolis Star reports in a story that begins:Web-based self-publishing specialist Author Solutions of Bloomington has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle claims that it had unlicensed copies of computer software installed on its computers...
Ind. Decisions - Tax Court issued one Aug. 22
Posted on August 25, 2008In Virginia Perry, et al v. Indiana Dept. of Local Government Finance, et al, an 11-page opinion, Judge Fisher writes: Virginia Perry, Gregg Terhune, and other similarly situated individuals (the Petitioners) appeal the two final determinations of the Department of...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 2 today (and 3 NFP)
Posted on August 25, 2008For publication opinions today (2): In Lowell J. Pflum v. Wayne Co. Board of Commissioners, an 11-page opinion, Chief Judge Baker writes:Appellant-plaintiff Lowell J. Pflum appeals the judgment in favor of appellee-defendant Wayne County Board of Commissioners (the Board), claiming...
Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending August 22, 2008
Posted on August 25, 2008Here is the Indiana Supreme Court's transfer list for the week ending Aug. 22, 2008. (I'm told a small clerical snafu held it up.) The list includes the 5 transfers granted April 14th (described here and here), but no new...
Environment - More on: "State leaders need to revisit concentrated animal feeding legislation"
Posted on August 25, 2008The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette's August 9th editorial on the need to revisit concentrated animal feeding legislation used the proposed 4,000 hog farm in Allen County as an example. Today, this long report by Angela Mapes Turner reveals many more...
Courts - "I think it's a Jerry Springer-type show masquerading as a court"
Posted on August 25, 2008TV "courts" - the story today by Diane Krieger Spivak in the NWI Times is headed "TV justice not so sweet," and presents an interesting cautionary tale. The report begins:SCHERERVILLE -- A disabled Schererville woman is accusing producers of a...
Ind. Decisions - "Court upholds 42-year sentence for highway sniper"
Posted on August 25, 2008The Court of Appeals August 21st decision in the case of Zachariah J. Blanton v. State of Indiana (NFP) is the subject of an AP story published in a number of Hoosier papers over the weekend. The Muncie Star-Press heads...
Ind. Decisions - Upcoming oral arguments this week
Posted on August 25, 2008This week's oral arguments before the Supreme Court: This Thursday, Aug. 28th: 9:00 AM - State v. Kimco of Evansville, Inc. - As part of a road reconfiguration project, the State took a portion of property owned by Kimco and...
Ind. Courts - AG files suit against Countrywide Mortgage, joining other states
Posted on August 24, 2008A press release issued today by Attorney General Carter begins:Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter has filed a lawsuit against the country?s largest mortgage lender, Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., and its parent company, Countrywide Financial Corporation...
Ind. Law - "Moped rider's Catch-22"; also, golf carts legal in South Carolina
Posted on August 24, 2008Mopeds. Frank Gray of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette has a column today, not about golf carts, but about another confused area of Indiana traffic law, that involving the moped. Some quotes:The debate over what constitutes a moped and whether...
Ind. Courts - Huntington Courthouse turns 100
Posted on August 24, 2008Becky Manley reports in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:As the Huntington Courthouse?s south clock tower?s gears ticked into the future, an antique cannon?s blast launched an event that celebrated the past. The blast echoed through the courthouse and into the...
Environment - "Vote in Alaska Puts Question: Gold or Fish? "
Posted on August 23, 2008William Yardley reports today in a story on page 1 of the NY Times, headlined "Vote in Alaska Puts Question: Gold or Fish?" It begins:DILLINGHAM, Alaska ? Just up the fish-rich rivers that surround this tiny bush town on Bristol...
Ind. Courts - More on: Grant County Superior Court 2 closes doors
Posted on August 23, 2008Updating this ILB entry from August 18th, Maribeth Holtz of the Grant County/Marion Chronicle Tribune had a story yesterday about a special meeting of the Grant County Commissioners on Thursday that included this information:Also at the meeting, commissioners formally approved...
Courts - Sarbanes-Oxley Upheld By Court as Not Violating Separation of Powers
Posted on August 23, 2008A very interesting administrative law / separation of powers decision yesterday, of which we will not have heard the last. Here, from a story by David S. Hilzenrath in the Washington Post:The plaintiffs in the lawsuit argued that the Sarbanes-Oxley...
Ind. Law - More on: "Can you rely on the Indiana Code?"
Posted on August 23, 2008Yesterday afternoon several of us, members of the Environmental Law Section of the Indiana State Bar Association, buttressed in the audience by other bar members and a number of professional law librarians, had the opportunity to testify before the highly-regarded...
Ind. Law - "Wine-shipping rules still not settled"
Posted on August 23, 2008I've been looking forward to the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette's Dan and Krista Stockman's take on the recent 7th Circuit ruling in Baude v. Heath. It does not disappoint. Read it here. Here is a "taste", in the section about...
Ind. Decisions - More on "Women Battling Infertility Find a Friend in the Court"
Posted on August 23, 2008Updating this ILB entry from August 20th, about the 7th Circuit's July 16th decision in a case out of Illinois, Cheryl Hall v. Nalco Company, Findlaw columnist Joanna Grossman, a professor of law at Hofstra University has a new column...
Ind. Courts - "Sentenced to four years for burglary to steal urine"
Posted on August 23, 2008Friday's Chesterton Tribune reports in a story that begins:A Valparaiso resident was sentenced to six years after pleading guilty to a charge of burglary in connection with his forced entry in August 2007 of the Porter County PACT office to...
Ind. Courts - More on: Goats OK in Fortville backyard
Posted on August 23, 2008Remember the story from earlier this month (see Aug. 13th ILB entry here). Today the Indianapolis Star reports under the headline "Town may change law to get rid of pet goats." From the story:Fortville officials -- stymied in their efforts...
Ind. Courts - Still more on: Report issued Monday by Delaware Circuit 2 Judge Richard Dailey
Posted on August 22, 2008Updating this ILB entry from yesterday, today's Muncie Star-Press story is headlined "Report brings secret deal to light: Prosecutor Mark McKinney denies that justice was ever for sale." The story by Rick Yencer begins:MUNCIE -- Justice was never for sale,...
Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending August 22, 2008
Posted on August 22, 2008Oddly, the ILB has received no transfer list from the Clerk's Office this afternoon. Odd because, as those who follow these lists will recall, last week's list, issued April 15, showed no transfers granted. Subsequently we became aware of 5...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 1 today (and 9 NFP)
Posted on August 22, 2008Details to follow: For publication opinions today (1): Yolanda Rice, as Guardian and Next Friend of Dagoberto Lozez v. Albert Harper, et al. NFP civil opinions today (1): Hussein Mroueh and Phillip K. Dabagia v. Luke Oil, Inc. (NFP) NFP...
Ind. Decisions - Gary Post-Tribune editorial about 7th Circuit wine shipping decision
Posted on August 22, 2008Here it is, I laughed out loud:Teens don't go online to get drunk on wine The U.S. 7th Court of Appeals in Chicago is afraid teenagers are buying wine online. Seriously. The judges are so concerned they've upheld an Indiana...
Ind. Courts - Judge Felts pleads in OWI case [Updated]
Posted on August 21, 2008Niki Kelly has just reported via the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette website:Allen Circuit Judge Thomas Felts pleaded guilty Thursday in Marion Superior Court to a misdemeanor count of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, and received a one-year suspended sentence...
Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit decides one Indiana case today
Posted on August 21, 2008In Michelle Wheeler v. Lawson (ND Ind., Judge Miller), a 24-page opinion, Judge Ripple writes:Michelle Wheeler filed this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Ronald Lawson, individually and in his official capacity as an officer of the Starke...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 4 today (and 10 NFP)
Posted on August 21, 2008For publication opinions today (4): In Wesley H. Fueger v. CNH America LLC, et al. , a 6-page opinion on a petition for rehearing, Sr. Judge Barteau writes:Case Corporation, Case IH, Case Equipment Corporation, Case LLC, CNH America LLC (collectively...
Ind. Courts - "St. Joseph County judges defend proposed budgets as mandates"
Posted on August 21, 2008Nancy J. Sulok writes today in the South Bend Tribune:Lurking in the background of the court budgets for next year is that dirty word "mandate.'' The Superior Court and Circuit budgets came up for hearing Wednesday before the county commissioners,...
Ind. Law - More on: "Red light camera push starts again"
Posted on August 21, 2008Updating this ILB entry from April 18th, an editorial today in the NWI Times is headlined: "Green light to cut spending, but not to red light cameras." Some quotes:Red light cameras will get another look from the Indiana General Assembly...
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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?
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