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Ind. Courts - Porter County Courthouse to be scene for movie shots

Posted on April 05, 2008
Jane Huh of the Gary Post-Tribune reports:VALPARAISO -- An independent Chicago filmmaker plans to shoot scenes in the Porter County Courthouse this summer. Following last month's Hollywood visit to Crown Point in Lake County, it's Valparaiso's turn at getting some...

Ind. Courts - More on "Muncie judge calls it quits"

Posted on April 05, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from March 28th, Rick Yencer of the Muncie Star-Press reports:Gov. Mitch Daniels will have the Republican nominee to consider when appointing a successor to Delaware Circuit Court 5 judge Wayne Lennington, whose resignation is effective May...

Ind. Courts - More on: Sierra Club files suit against Duke Energy

Posted on April 05, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from April 3rd, Bryan Corbin of the Evansville Courier & Press reports today:The Sierra Club has accused Duke Energy Indiana Inc. of artificially inflating the amount of air pollution a proposed coal-to-gas power plant planned for...

Ind. Gov't. - Yet more on "Storm Water Board resigns: Council criticized no-bid contract"

Posted on April 05, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from March 28th, Dick Kaukas of the Louisville Courier Journal reports today:The New Albany City Council may decide next week whether to appeal the dismissal of its lawsuit challenging two no-bid contracts awarded last year by...

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Law - Adam Liptak to succeed Linda Greenhouse at NYT

Posted on April 05, 2008
Updating this March 27th ILB entry reporting that Linda Greenhouse had accepted a buyout package from the NYT, there is news of her successor. The SCOTUSBlog's Lyle Denniston had this report yesterday that begins:The New York Times indicated on Friday...

About this blog - Kudos from Kentucky Law Blog

Posted on April 05, 2008
Thanks to Michael Stevens of the Kentucky Law Blog for his kind entry re the ILB's 5th birthday! Here is a link to the ILB's 5th birthday announcement from Tuesday....

Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit issues one Indiana opinion

Posted on April 04, 2008
In U.S. v. Ivory Griffin (ND Ind., Judge Sharp), a 7-page opinion, Judge Kanne writes:Ivory Griffin pled guilty to one count of possessing an unregistered firearm, 26 U.S.C. � 5861(d), and one count of possessing a firearm after having...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 1 today (and 7 NFP), including a criminal appeal lost in the Clerk's office for nearly sixteen months

Posted on April 04, 2008
For publication opinions today (1): In David Keown v. Cynthia Marie Keown, a 13-page opinion, Chief Judge Baker writes:If a trial court orders a party to sell the marital residence, can it take into account the amount of necessary repairs...

Ind. Law - "New law will require passengers to get help"

Posted on April 04, 2008
A story today, via the AP, begins:A new law will prevent passengers from walking away from car wrecks without alerting authorities and helping injured people if the driver cannot do so. Lawmakers approved the passenger responsibility law, which was inspired...

Ind. Decisions - "Carmel can regulate mines"

Posted on April 04, 2008
The City of Carmel, Indiana v. Martin Marietta Materials, Inc., issued late yesterday afternoon by the Supreme Court (see ILB summary here), is the subject of a story today by the Indianapolis Star's Francesca Jarosz. A quote:The decision in Carmel's...

Ind. Gov't. - Coach Crean's contract online

Posted on April 04, 2008
Coach Crean's $18 million contract is a 3-page "memo of understanding", plus a signature page and an exhibit. Access it here from the Indianapolis Star website. The Star's Terry Hutchens has the story on the contract details, here. The story...

Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending April 4, 2008

Posted on April 04, 2008
Here is the Indiana Supreme Court's transfer list for the week ending April 4, 2008. There were no transfers granted this week. Over four years of Transfer Lists: For other weekly transfer lists (going back to Feb. 2, 2004), check...

Ind. Courts - Other blogs chime in

Posted on April 04, 2008
Sunday's ILB entry tiled "Vanderburgh court records move to the Web", commenting on the failure of the Supreme Court and its JTAC committee to allow private companies to access to the data stream from the Monroe County case management system,...

Ind. Courts - More "Governor appoints Bluffton City Judge"

Posted on April 03, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 28, quoting from the Governor's press release appointing Bob Bate, and this one from Jan. 19, quoting a Fort Wayne Journal Gazette story that reported in part:Markley took office Jan. 1 and quit 14...

Law - "Lawyers Fight DNA Samples Gained on Sly"

Posted on April 03, 2008
A long and very interesting front-page NY Times article today on ?surreptitious sampling? of DNA, reported by Amy Harmon. Some quotes:The two Sacramento sheriff detectives tailed their suspect, Rolando Gallego, at a distance. They did not have a court order...

Law - "Private data tossed in the trash by businesses trigger a crackdown"

Posted on April 03, 2008
Tresa Baldas of The National Law Journal writes today in a story that begins:Shred it, or regret it. That's the message that attorneys, and state and federal authorities, are sending out to companies that throw sensitive and confidential information into...

Ind. Courts - Yet more on the sealing of records in the Clerk of the Courts Office

Posted on April 03, 2008
Perhaps related to the total disappearance of some cases from the Clerk's docket, so that even the fact of their existence is no longer discernible, an attorney who recently visited the clerk's office sends this note this morning:I saw your...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 2 today (and 4 NFP), including an interlocutory appeal lost in the Clerk's office for eight months

Posted on April 03, 2008
For publication opinions today (2): In State of Indiana v. Harold Lewis, a 10-page opinion, Judge Crone writes:On interlocutory appeal, the State challenges the granting of a motion in limine filed by defendant Harold Lewis. The State asserts that in...

Ind. Courts - Questions posed to candidates in Floyd County Superior Court 3 Democratic Primary

Posted on April 03, 2008
The New Albany News & Tribune is running Q&As in contested primary races, including The Superior Court 1 & 3 Democratic primaries. Take a look here at Court 3 and here at Court 1. Several interesting questions are asked and...

Ind. Law - Yet more on: Jeffersonville bans sex offenders from parks

Posted on April 03, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from Sept. 13, 2007, Ben Zion Hershberg of the Louisville Courier Journal reports today in a story that begins:A convicted sex offender who is banned by a Jeffersonville ordinance from entering city parks has asked a...

Ind. Decisions - "Dad wins due-process appeal: Parental rights wrongly severed"

Posted on April 03, 2008
Yesterday's COA decision in the case of Term. of Parent-Child Rel. of S.F. and J.F., and Michael Farley v. Allen County Child Services (ILB entry here) is the subject of a story today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. Reporter...

Ind. Gov't. - "Colleagues in politics salute Okeson's service"

Posted on April 03, 2008
Niki Kelly of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reports today on the death of Indiana attorney and Fort Wayne native John Okeson. Some quotes:Former Republican state officeholder John Okeson, who died suddenly late Tuesday after a short illness, strived to...

Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court decides Carmel gravel mining case

Posted on April 03, 2008
In The City of Carmel, Indiana v. Martin Marietta Materials, Inc., a 13-page, 5-0 opinion, Justice Sullivan writes:The City of Carmel enacted an ordinance regulating mining within the City. The trial court prohibited enforcement of the ordinance based on the...

Ind. Courts - Sierra Club files suit against Duke Energy

Posted on April 03, 2008
The ILB has received a release from the Hoosier Chapter of the Sierra Club, headed "Sierra Club Challenges Duke Energy?s Emissions Scheme: Pollution Limits on New Coal Plant Artificially Inflated," that begins:The Sierra Club today took steps to hold Duke...

Ind. Courts - ACLU files suit challenging new sex offender law [Updated]

Posted on April 03, 2008
Jon Murray reports this afternoon in the Indianapolis Star in a story that begins:The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a lawsuit today challenging a new provision of the state sex offender law that will require those who register...

Ind. Decisions - "Ex-professor loses appeal over lawsuit"

Posted on April 02, 2008
The Supreme Court's decision yesterday in the case of Virginia Hartman and Suzanne Swinehart v. Dr. Gabe Keri (ILB entry here - 2nd case) is the subject of a story today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. Niki Kelly reports:The...

Ind. Courts - Even more on the sealing of records in the Clerk of the Courts Office

Posted on April 02, 2008
Yet another reader writes in response to this post this morning:I agree with many of the concerns you posted from a reader earlier today. Some of my juvenile cases have disappeared from the docket; others are still there. Although I...

Ind. Courts - Yet more on the sealing of records in the Clerk of the Courts Office

Posted on April 02, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from this morning, another reader writes:I too have had a case go from present online with "sealed" annotation to completely missing....

Ind. Law- More on: 2008 US News Law School Rankings now available

Posted on April 02, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from last Friday, the WSJ Law Blog has an interesting entry this morning about how the U.S. News rankings are unrealistic because they rank the handful of national schools along with regionally-based schools which have "strong...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 2 today (and 6 NFP)

Posted on April 02, 2008
For publication opinions today (2): In Term. of Parent-Child Rel. of S.F. and J.F., and Michael Farley v. Allen County Child Services, a 15-page opinion, Judge Barnes writes:Michael Farley appeals the termination of his parental rights to his children, J...

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