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Ind. Decisions - More on: Supreme Court holds that a defendant may waive the right to appellate review of his sentence as part of a written plea agreement

Posted on May 22, 2008
Yesterday's Supreme Court decision in the case of Timothy Ray Creech v. State of Indiana is the subject of a story today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, reported by Niki Kelly:The Indiana Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a Huntington...

Ind. Decisions - Reminder: Supreme court to hear David Camm case and Steuben County official's sex case this week

Posted on May 22, 2008
The oral arguments are at 9:00 AM (Camm) and 9:45 AM (Clark) this morning. Watch the webcasts here. See the case summaries from this ILB entry Monday, and the newspaper previews here....

Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit's Chief Judge asks lawyers to keep lookout for cranky judges

Posted on May 21, 2008
Lynne Marek of The National Law Journal reports today:Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook, who presides over the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asked lawyers and judges to be on the look-out for aging, cranky, deteriorating judges who might need a...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 0 today (and 1 NFP)

Posted on May 21, 2008
For publication opinions today (0): NFP civil opinions today (1): Invol. Term. of Parent-Child Rel. of N.S., and Dorothy M. v. Marion Co. Dept. of Child Services, and Child Advocates (NFP) - "The DCS established by clear and convincing evidence...

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Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court holds that a defendant may waive the right to appellate review of his sentence as part of a written plea agreement

Posted on May 21, 2008
In Timothy Ray Creech v. State of Indiana, a 7-page, 5-0 opinion, Chief Justice Shepard writes:The question here is whether a criminal defendant can, as part of a plea agreement, waive his right to appeal a discretionary sentencing decision. We...

Courts - More on "Pa. justices won raise for upholding slots law, lawsuit claims"

Posted on May 21, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from yesterday, Howard Bashman of How Appealing has today gathered a number of new Pennsylvania press stories. For instance, Bashman writes:The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania today contains an article headlined "Chief justice warns League, attorney of...

Ind. Decisions - "State court cuts 100-year cocaine term"

Posted on May 21, 2008
That is the headline to a story today by Niki Kelly of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, reporting on the Court of Appeals NFP decision yesterday in the case of Sharico Devon Blakely v. State of Indiana. In the opinion,...

Environment - "Gulls of another color seen in NW Ind."

Posted on May 21, 2008
The Indianapolis Star picked up an AP story this morning that reports:PORTAGE, Ind. -- Some gulls around northwestern Indiana have been looking a little blue the past week, and the state Department of Natural Resources is trying to figure out...

Not law - Turkey at Texas Courthouse, Deer at Purdue's Lilly Hall

Posted on May 20, 2008
Both broke windows. Both apparently were unharmed. "Turkey flies through Lubbock County Courthouse window, unharmed by hit" reads a story today flagged by How Appealing. Don't miss the photo of the "cartoon-like hole in the glass" - here. Hmm, Lubbock,...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 3 today (and 16 NFP)

Posted on May 20, 2008
For publication opinions today (3): In JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. v. Laura & Dennis Brown, et al, an 8-page opinion, Chief Judge Baker writes:The parties? arguments require us to interpret Indiana Code section 28-9-4-2. Specifically, we must determine whether a...

Courts - "Pa. justices won raise for upholding slots law, lawsuit claims"

Posted on May 20, 2008
[Howard Bashman of How Appealing has posted the links to this story and has uploaded the complaint.] The AP is reporting today:HARRISBURG -- The League of Women Voters sued Pennsylvania's former chief justice yesterday, alleging that the Supreme Court upheld...

Environment - More on: Appeals filed with OEA over BP air construction permit grant

Posted on May 20, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from May 13th, Gitte Laasby of the Gary Post-Tribune reports today:BP Whiting's contentious air permit hit another bump in the road Monday. A coalition of environmental groups filed a 37-page appeal with a request to temporarily...

Ind. Courts - Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Department to list active warrants online

Posted on May 20, 2008
From a story today in the Lafayette Journal Courier:The Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Department is partnering with a Fort Wayne-based company to list more than 4,000 active felony and misdemeanor warrants online. The Web site, www.indianasmostwanted.com, started listing warrants issued out...

Ind. Courts - "Setback requirement deals setback to Randolph County courthouse project"

Posted on May 20, 2008
Joy Leiker of the Muncie Star-Press reports today:WINCHESTER -- The Randolph County Board of Commissioners was denied a zoning variance for its much debated courthouse project Monday night, putting its fall groundbreaking in jeopardy. Advertisement It's the latest of many...

Ind. Courts - "ACLU suit targets state welfare fixes"

Posted on May 20, 2008
The AP's Ken Kusmer reports today in a widely-published story:Problems with Indiana?s landmark automation of welfare eligibility have cost some disabled residents food stamps and other benefits they need to survive, the American Civil Liberties Union alleges in a lawsuit...

Ind. Gov't. - "Governor, outgoing AG at odds over successor"

Posted on May 20, 2008
From Tracy Warner's column in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:Though Gov. Mitch Daniels has told fellow Republicans he wants Valparaiso Mayor Jon Costas to be the party?s nominee for attorney general, outgoing AG Steve Carter last week endorsed his chief...

Ind. Decisions - Supreme court to hear David Camm case and Steuben County official's sex case this week

Posted on May 19, 2008
"David Camm case goes before Indiana high court" was the headline to this story by Ben Zion Hershberg in Sunday's Louisville Courier Journal. Some quotes:Nearly eight years after David Camm's family was murdered at their Georgetown, Ind., home, the state...

Courts - SCOTUS upholds municipal bond exemption

Posted on May 19, 2008
Pete Yost of the AP is reporting:The Supreme Court on Monday upheld long-standing state tax exemptions for municipal bonds. In a 7-2 ruling in a case from Kentucky, the justices permitted states to exempt interest on their own bonds from...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 0 today (and 4 NFP)

Posted on May 19, 2008
For publication opinions today (0): NFP civil opinions today (2): In Hawkeye Charter Service, Inc., and Terry Garoutte v. Damax, Inc., and National Flight Service, Inc. (NFP), a 33-page opinion, Judge Crone writes:Hawkeye Charter Service, Inc. (?Hawkeye?), and Terry Garoutte,...

Ind. Courts - "Lawsuits dismissed as fast as inmates can file them"

Posted on May 19, 2008
Joe Carlson reports today in the NWI Times in a story that begins:Though nearly all of them fail, new civil rights lawsuits against the Lake and Porter county jails continue to flow into the courts. Federal judges are being asked...

Posted on May 18, 2008

Courts - More on "California Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry"

Posted on May 18, 2008
The California Supreme Court decision Thursday finding that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California (see ILB entry here) has led to two stories giving an Indiana take on the decision. Mike Smith of the AP...

Ind. Decisions - Still more on: Federal court grants preliminary injunction re judicial speech rights

Posted on May 18, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from May 10th, quoting a Fort Wayne Journal Gazette editorial urging free speech for judges, Rebecca S. Green of the Journal Gazette has a lengthy story today giving a kind of overview of the issue. Some...

Ind. Law - Plain old-fashioned billboards and digital billboards

Posted on May 18, 2008
Plain old-fashioned billboards. This ILB entry from January 19. 2008, headed "Billboards will be history" - agreement filed Friday in Superior Court", began:See this ILB entry from May 3, 2006 on the denial of the petition for rehearing in Metropolitan...

Ind. Law - Valpo Law's "nontraditional" law graduates

Posted on May 18, 2008
A story today by Amy Lavalley of the Gary Post-Tribune begins:VALPARAISO -- Jeffery Earl and JoBeth Cruz joined about 140 classmates Saturday at the commencement ceremony for the Valparaiso University School of Law. Earl, 37, and Cruz, 46, fit into...

Ind. Decisions - "Ind. Supreme Court tosses conviction in Gary shooting"

Posted on May 18, 2008
The Supreme Court reversal May 13th in the case of Andrew Lee Watts v. State of Indiana (see ILB summary here - 2nd case) was the subject of a story Thursday by Patrick Guinane of the NWI Times. Some quotes:A...

Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court hears arguments on retroactive broadening of sex offender-registry requirements

Posted on May 18, 2008
As noted at that end of this ILB entry from May 15th:The Indiana Supreme Court heard oral arguments at 9:45 am today [Thursday] in two challenges to the registration requirement of the sex offender law. See the writeup from Monday's...

Ind. Gov't. - AG Carter endorses Zoeller, Gov. endorses Costas for Attorney general

Posted on May 17, 2008
See the story by Andy Grimm of the Gary Post-Tribune here....

Ind. Courts - "Former Dubois judge sworn in" to seat on the Court of Appeals

Posted on May 17, 2008
Bryan Corbin of the Evansville Courier & Press reports on the ceremony yesterday in a story that begins:In a ceremony that simultaneously was solemn and light-hearted, Judge Elaine B. Brown of Dubois County was sworn in Friday as the newest...

Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending May 16, 2008

Posted on May 17, 2008
Here is the Indiana Supreme Court's transfer list for the week ending May 16, 2008. There were three transfers granted this week: Villas West II of Willowridge Homeowners Assn. Inc. was granted with opinion - see ILB entry here from...

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