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Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 5 today (and 8 NFP)
Posted on April 15, 2008For publication opinions today (5): Margarita Overholtzer v. Mark S. Overholtzer - "Margarita raises one issue on appeal, which we restate as: Whether the trial court properly decided that Margarita is not entitled to her share of the cost of...
Ind. Courts - "4 vie for Lake county District 3 judgeship"
Posted on April 15, 2008Related to this entry last weekend re "Lake incumbent judges get nod from lawyer group," Marisa Kwiatkowski of the NWI Tmes reported yesterday:CROWN POINT | Three newcomers are vying to unseat incumbent Lake County Superior Court Judge Julie Cantrell in...
Ind. Courts - Vanderburgh "teen court" program
Posted on April 15, 2008John Martin of the Evansville Courier & Press reports:In more than 30 cases last year, the fate of offenders in Vanderburgh Juvenile Court cases were decided not by Judge Brett J. Niemeier, but by a jury of teenagers. Youth Resources...
Ind. Courts - "Tippecanoe courts 'out of space' for juvenile cases"
Posted on April 15, 2008Dorothy Schneider of the Lafayette Journal & Courier reports:About 10 years ago, the Tippecanoe County's juvenile court handled just fewer than 600 cases. In 2007, that number was 2,254. Because there are more cases and many of them stretch on...
Ind. Courts - "Sex offender wants off registry"
Posted on April 15, 2008Bob Kasarda reports today in the NWI Times:VALPARAISO | Officials were surprised Monday when a convicted sex offender walked into court carrying a toddler to ask the judge to relieve him of the obligation of registering for life for his...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 5 today (and 16 NFP)
Posted on April 14, 2008For publication opinions today (5): In Patrick A. Cleary, M.D., and Ball Memorial Hospital v. Konnie A. Manning, on Her Own Behalf and as the Personal Representative of Paul Manning, Deceased, a 10-page opinion, Judge Barnes writes:Dr. Patrick Cleary and...
Ind. Gov't. - More on: Indiana, Land of Lincoln
Posted on April 14, 2008Updatng this ILB entry from March 9th, where I wrote: "Kentucky and especially Illinois make a big deal over Abraham Lincoln. The State of Indiana has done comparatively little. Now we read in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, in an...
Courts - "Supreme Court Justices Turn to Ex-Clerks for Unusual Role"
Posted on April 14, 2008Tony Mauro of Legal Times has an interesting story today that begins:On Jan. 7, Jay Jorgensen took an unusual call from his former boss, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. Alito's request: Would Jorgensen have time to argue a Supreme...
Ind. Law - "Little progress with state's wine laws"
Posted on April 14, 2008Dan and Krista Stockman, of the excellent Saturday wine column, "Uncorked," in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, wrote on the 12th:It could have been a lot worse. For wine lovers who were hoping the Indiana General Assembly would make life...
Ind. Decisions - "Jeffersonville will ask the Indiana Supreme Court this week to immediately review the city's annexation of the Oak Park Conservancy"
Posted on April 14, 2008Ben Zion Hershberg of the Louisville Courier Journal, writes in a lengthy story today:Larry Wilder, the lawyer for Jeffersonville, said he expects to file the request with the Supreme Court by midweek and the city hopes to avoid a lengthy...
Ind. Courts - "Indiana near top in locking up kids"
Posted on April 14, 2008Bob Kasarda of the NWI Times writes today:Indiana has been locking up a higher percentage of its young people than all but three other states, according to a recently released report on the well being of children in the United...
Law - "Law Firms Curtail Associate Programs As Economy Slows"
Posted on April 14, 2008That is the headline to this story ($$$) this morning by Ashby Jones of the WSJ. It begins:For associates at law firms, how quickly things have changed. This time last year, salaried lawyers at many of nation's largest firms had...
Ind. Decisions - Upcoming oral arguments this week
Posted on April 14, 2008This week's oral arguments before the Supreme Court: None scheduled This week's oral arguments before the Court of Appeals that will NOT be webcast: This Tuesday, April 15th: 10:30 AM - Gary and Katherine Hoesman v. Daniel Sheffler, et al...
Ind. Decisions - More on: Court of Appeals reverses murder convictions under Indiana?s Criminal Rule 4(C)
Posted on April 13, 2008Updating this ILB entry from April 8th, re the Court of Appeals decision last week in Robert Jeffrey Pelley v. State of Indiana, Pablo Ros of the South Bend Tribune reported April 9th:The trial of a Lakeville man convicted of...
Ind. Courts - More on: "Sex Offender Files Suit Against Every Sheriff, Prosecutor In Ind."
Posted on April 13, 2008Updating this ILB entry from April 8th, Harold J. Adams of the Louisville Courier Journal reports today:The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana has filed suit to block a new law aimed at tracking the activities of convicted sex offenders...
Ind. Courts - Monroe County plans new "justice campus"
Posted on April 13, 2008Bethany Nolan reports today ($$$) in the Bloomington Herald Times:A Bloomington firm will develop a financial plan for capital and operating costs for a justice campus proposal that calls for building a new county jail, sheriff?s office and juvenile center...
Ind. Gov't. - Yet more on Attorney General race [Updated]
Posted on April 13, 2008Lesley Stedman Weidenbener 's Louisville Courier Journal column this weekend is headed "Indiana's GOP attorney general scrap could be North vs. South." It begins:INDIANAPOLIS -- The race for the GOP nomination for attorney general shook out last week as New...
Courts - More on: New York judges may sue for raises
Posted on April 12, 2008Updating this ILB entry from April 2nd, Joel Stashenko and Daniel Wise of the New York Law Journal reported yesterday:Stymied for a fourth straight fiscal year in securing a pay raise for New York state court judges, Chief Judge Judith...
Ind. Courts - Lake incumbent judges get nod from lawyer group
Posted on April 12, 2008Bill Dolan reports today in the NWI Times:CROWN POINT | A group of Lake County lawyers is praising three Superior Court County Division incumbents who will face the voters next month. In the Lake County Bar Association survey, Judge Julie...
Ind. Gov't. - Still more on Attorney General race
Posted on April 12, 2008Patrick Guinane of the NWI Times reports today:INDIANAPOLIS | Valparaiso Mayor Jon Costas gained an opponent and an endorsement Friday in the Republican race for state attorney general. Greg Zoeller, a New Albany, Ind., native who has served as chief...
Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending April 11 2008
Posted on April 11, 2008Here is the Indiana Supreme Court's transfer list for the week ending April 11, 2008. There were four transfers granted this week, each with opinion. All were summarized in this ILB entry from April 9th, under the heading "Supreme Court...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 3 today (and 12 NFP)
Posted on April 11, 2008For publication opinions today (3): In AGS Capital Corp., Inc., et. al. v. Product Action International, LLC, a 42-page, 2-1 opinion on an interlocutory appeal re the trial court?s grant of preliminary injunction to Product Action International, LLC, Judge bailey...
Ind. Courts - Still more on: Marion County Judge Hawkins, Master Commissioner Broyles charged by Disciplinary Commission
Posted on April 11, 2008Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star has an expanded story this morning; access it here. Check here for background from the ILB....
Ind. Courts - "Conviction is upheld in '06 Allen murder," most notable because mother took court records
Posted on April 11, 2008Rebecca S. Green of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reports today on the Court of Appeals decision yesterday in the case of Daniel Favela v. State of Indiana (NFP):In September 2006, a jury convicted Daniel Favela, 30, of murder in...
Ind. Courts - More on "Vanderburgh Superior Court gets video arraignment system"
Posted on April 11, 2008Updating this ILB entry from March 31st, Kate Braser of the Evansville Courier & Press reports today in a story that begins:The seven inmates who stepped in front of a camera at the Vanderburgh County Jail to hear charges in...
Environment - Who cleans up if a hog farm goes bankrupt?
Posted on April 11, 2008Seth Slabaugh of the Muncie Star-Press has a story today that begins:EATON -- The Indiana attorney general's office recently asked a judge to order a pork producer to explain why he should not be found in contempt of court for...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals rules case against ex-priest can go on
Posted on April 11, 2008Sue Loughlin of the Terre Haute Trib-Star reports today:An Indiana appeals court has given a green light to a civil lawsuit that alleges a former Catholic priest sexually abused a boy and the Archdiocese of Indianapolis covered up the priest?s...
Law - Interesting business model
Posted on April 10, 2008Sheri Qualters of The National Law Journal has a story today that begins:E. James Perullo realized that switching from an information technology career to the law would be daunting at age 42, so he's keeping his day job while building...
Ind. Courts - More on: Marion County Judge Hawkins, Master Commissioner Broyles charged by Disciplinary Commission
Posted on April 10, 2008Updating the ILB entry earlier this afternoon, the Indianapolis Star has now made available online the "Notice of the institution of formal proceedings and statement of charges" filed by the Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications against Commissioner Nancy L...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 6 today (and 19 NFP)
Posted on April 10, 2008For publication opinions today (6): In James Hicks v. Gary and Judy Larson, a 12-page, 2-1 opinion concerning grandparent visitation, Judge Mathias writes:Gary and Judy Larson filed in Gibson Circuit Court a petition for grandparent visitation. The Larsons (?Grandparents?) are...
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