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Ind. Courts - "Vanderburgh court records move to the Web"

Posted on March 16, 2008
Kate Braser of the Evansville Courier & Press reports today:After years of planning, Vanderburgh County officials have approved a deal that will make court records available to the public on the Internet. The records should be accessible online by the...

Ind. Courts - update on: "St. Joseph County judge has stopped sending female offenders to the Indianapolis Juvenile Correctional Facility"

Posted on March 16, 2008
The ILB has had a number of entries on this topic, based on a story published in the Indianapolis Star on Dec. 20, 2007. Today Jeff Parrott of the South Bend Tribune reports:St. Joseph County juvenile justice officials say they're...

Environment - "EPA Closure of Libraries Faulted For Curbing Access to Key Data"

Posted on March 15, 2008
A long-time ongoing story got more exposure yesterday with the release of a GAO study. Christopher Lee reported in the Washington Post:A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to close several of its 26 research libraries did not fully account...

Ind. Law - "Turnip that stirred panic was message to attorney"

Posted on March 15, 2008
Abby Slutsky reports today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:A packaged turnip that generated a local law firm?s suspicion Thursday was sent to attorney Mark GiaQuinta in what might have been an attempt to express that ?you can?t get blood...

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Courts - "Kentucky Chief justice calls proposed budget cuts a terrible mistake"

Posted on March 15, 2008
Jason Riley reports in today's Louisville Courier Journal:Kentucky Chief Justice Joseph Lambert says a proposed $55 million cut in the state judiciary budget over the next two years would have a devastating effect on the court system. In a mass...

Ind. Law - "Wineries lose again: Proposals to loosen Indiana?s distribution system fail"

Posted on March 15, 2008
That is the headline to this comprehensive story today by Jonathan Hiskes in the Indianapolis Business Journal. The story begins:Oliver Winery considered starting a wine club that would ship to members through UPS, giving them access to boutique wines not...

Ind. Courts - Even more on "Revised law in play on Wilkes sentence"

Posted on March 15, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from Jan. 28th, Kate Braser of the Evansville C&P reported Friday:Attorneys representing death row inmate Daniel Ray Wilkes plan to appeal his death sentence to a higher court after a Vanderburgh County judge Thursday declined to...

Environment - "Ozone Rules Weakened at Bush's Behest"

Posted on March 14, 2008
Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post reports today in a front-page story that begins:The Environmental Protection Agency weakened one part of its new limits on smog-forming ozone after an unusual last-minute intervention by President Bush, according to documents released by...

Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending March 14, 2008

Posted on March 14, 2008
Here is the Indiana Supreme Court's transfer list for the week ending March 14, 2008. (Note that there are 4 pages to the list this week.) There was one transfer granted this week, Kirk Reuille v. E.E. Brandenberger Construction, Inc.....

Courts - "Tort King's Path to Bribery Charge"

Posted on March 14, 2008
As interesting as the latest John Grisham novel, and set in the same locale, the WSJ has a front-page story ($$$) today that continues on to a full inside page, about an upcoming trial. It begins:Last November, a lawyer who...

Ind. Law - "Protests prompt near-total rewrite of lead-paint act"

Posted on March 13, 2008
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette's Niki Kelly had an interesting back-story yesterday on the Senate Bill 143, which is currently in conference committee. Read the story in conjunction with Kelly's lengthy March 9th report, headed "Lead poison bill faces slow...

Ind. Courts - Even more on: "Lawyer guilty of attack on woman in wheelchair"

Posted on March 13, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from March 11th, the Gary Post Tribune has a story today by Ruth Ann Krause that begins:Former lawyer and elected official Michael B. Haughee, who is serving a one-year jail term for sexual battery, has been...

Ind. Courts - "New Marion County public defender will face budget cuts"

Posted on March 13, 2008
Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star reports today on the appointment of a new Marion County public defender and the challenges he will face. Some quotes:An Indianapolis defense attorney appointed Wednesday as Marion County?s chief public defender will face budget...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 1 today (and 4 NFP)

Posted on March 13, 2008
For publication opinions today (1): In Baker Machinery, Inc. v Superior Canopy Corp., et. al., a 14-page opinion, Judge Friedlander concludes:In dismissing Baker?s case, the trial court considered the factors identified in Lee v. Friedman, 637 N.E.2d 1318 and concluded...

Courts - More on: Justice Dept. no-bid contracts with John Ashcroft and the Indiana twist

Posted on March 12, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 24th, Joe Palazzo of Legal Times reports today on John Ascroft's testimony yesterday before a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the "multimillion-dollar contract his company was awarded by the DOJ to monitor fraud settlements"...

Courts - Oklahoma Supreme Court "cuts off online access to records"

Posted on March 12, 2008
This could be ILB "pretty astonishing" #2 for the week. #1 was Monday's story on Elliot Spitzer. Ron Jenkins of the AP reports:The Oklahoma Supreme Court has adopted rules cutting off public access to court records now available on the...

Ind. Decisions - Madison school treasurer sentenced to 48 months following her guilty plea to embezzling more than $1,100,000

Posted on March 12, 2008
From a press release that begins:Timothy M. Morrison, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced that ANN GEYMAN, 54, Madison, was sentenced to 48 months imprisonment today by U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge John...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 6 today (and 17 NFP)

Posted on March 12, 2008
For publication opinions today (6): In Steve Carter v. City of East Chicago, Indiana, East Chicago Second Century, Inc., Michael A. Pannos, et al , an 8-page opinion, Judge May writes:The Indiana Attorney General appeals the dismissal of its counterclaim...

Ind. Decisions - More on: City of Hammond negotiating Mayes settlement

Posted on March 12, 2008
Updating yesterday's entry, Joe Carlson of the NWI Times reports today, in a story that begins:With millions of dollars on the line, both sides took the sure thing rather than gambling for a better deal. Attorneys for the city of...

Ind. Courts - Clark Circuit Judge Dan Donahue "taking well-deserved retirement"

Posted on March 12, 2008
Columnist Dale Moss today has a lengthy tribute in the Louisville Courier Journal that begins:Dan Donahue made jurors safe from flying water pitchers. Start there. Look at Donahue's thick file of thank-yous, some if not many from sides he did...

Courts - "Kentucky judge's ban on prosecutorial objections rejected"

Posted on March 12, 2008
Jason Riley reports today in the Louisville Courier Journal:A Jefferson Circuit Court judge yesterday ordered District Court Judge Sean R. Delahanty to at least temporarily stop enforcing his policy that forbids prosecutors from making objections in his courtroom...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 3 today (and 13 NFP)

Posted on March 11, 2008
For publication opinions today (3): In State of Indiana on the Relation of the Indiana State Police v. Chad Arnold, a 10-page opinion, Judge Darden concludes:Indiana Code section 35-38-5-1(f) provides that the trial court shall grant a petition for expungement...

Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit decides one Indiana case today

Posted on March 11, 2008
In St. Margaret Mercy v. NLRB, a 5-page opinion, Judge Posner writes:The Labor Board found that St. Margaret, which owns and operates two hospitals in Indiana (but for the sake of simplicity we?ll assume they?re one), interfered with the...

Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court decides one today

Posted on March 11, 2008
In Central Indiana Podiatry, P.C. [CIP] v. Kenneth Krueger, Meridian Health Group, P.C., a 14-page, 3-2 opinion, Justice Boehm writes:We hold that noncompetition agreements between a physician and a medical practice group are not per se void as against public...

Ind. Decisions - City of Hammond negotiating Mayes settlement

Posted on March 11, 2008
Susan Brown reports today in the NWI Times:HAMMOND | Five months after the city of Hammond asked a federal appeals court to overturn a $9 million judgment in the wrongful conviction lawsuit won by Larry Mayes, attorneys are expected to...

Ind. Courts - Still more on: "Lawyer guilty of attack on woman in wheelchair"

Posted on March 11, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from March 7th, Bob Kasarda of the NWI Times reports today:VALPARAISO | Former Hebron Town Council President and former Lake County Deputy Prosecutor Michael Haughee turned himself in at the county jail Monday morning to begin...

Law - Pretty astonishing

Posted on March 10, 2008
The NYT is reporting: "ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning." [More] ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been caught...

Ind. Decisions - "U. S. Steel Disappointed By Indiana Court of Appeals Ruling "

Posted on March 10, 2008
Friday's Court of Appeals opinion in the case of Northern Indiana Public Service Company v. United States Steel Corporation, (see ILB summary here - 2nd case) has occasioned a press release today from U.S. Steel, including the following:The decision, handed...

Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit issues one Indiana decision today

Posted on March 10, 2008
In Asher B. Hill v. Sup't., Westville Correctional Fac. (ND Ind. Judge Simon), a 6-page opinion, Chief Judge Easterbrook writes:Asher Hill entered a liquor store in Indianapolis, shot the clerk, and stole the contents of the cash register. For...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 3 today (and 1 NFP)

Posted on March 10, 2008
For publication opinions today (3): In George Snell v. C.J. Jenkins Enterprises, Inc., and Charles D. Jenkins, an 8-page opinion, the issue is whether appellant-plainiff, who delivered newspapers, was an independent contractor. Judge Bradford writes:Upon appeal, Snell claims that the...

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