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Ind. Courts - Reports on bills of interest to the Judiciary

Posted on March 10, 2008
Friday, Feb. 29th, the Indiana Judicial Center posted the ninth installment of its very useful reports for 2008, which began:We are nearing the end of this session. This installment is a series of topical charts detailing the status of bills...

Ind. Law - Last Week in Review at the Indiana General Assembly

Posted on March 10, 2008
The Evansville Courier & Press' Bryan Corbin's review this Monday of the status of legislation in the General Assembly begins:It's down to crunch time at the Indiana General Assembly. State lawmakers have until midnight Friday to reach agreement on property...

Ind. Decisions - Upcoming oral arguments this week

Posted on March 10, 2008
This week's oral arguments before the Supreme Court: None scheduled. This week's oral arguments before the Court of Appeals that will be webcast: None scheduled. This week's oral arguments before the Court of Appeals that will NOT be webcast: This...

Environment - Complaints that public isn't being given enough time to review BP draft air permit

Posted on March 09, 2008
On March 1, Gitte Laasby, environmental reporter for the Gary Post Tribune, wrote:WHITING -- Environmentalists are frustrated and disappointed with Indiana Department of Environmental Management Commissioner Tom Easterly, who has refused to give them the time they say they need...

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Environment - National study looking into release of toxic emissions

Posted on March 09, 2008
The EPA farm emissions study has been the subject of several ILB entries, including this one from April 4, 2005, and this one (2nd part of entry) from July 13, 2007. Today Melissa Moody of the New Albany New&Tribune has...

Ind. Decisions - Several interesting evidence issues in recent trial court decision

Posted on March 09, 2008
Stan Maddux of the South Bend Tribune reports:LAPORTE ? Matching up a severed foot with the leg of its owner helped prosecutors land a conviction in a double drunk-driving fatality near Michigan City. Benjamin Pomeroy, 28, of LaPorte was found...

Ind. Decisions - "Shelbyville 4th Ward frustrations mount"

Posted on March 09, 2008
An interesting report in the Shelbyville News, reported by Ron Hamilton, includes this:"I don't understand why Republican city council candidate Tamara Sullivan didn't give up her seat to Democrat candidate Val Phares after Judge Charles O'Connor issued a court order...

Ind. Gov't. - Heightened interest in Indiana primary has its downsides

Posted on March 09, 2008
So writes Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Washington-based political columnist Sylvia A. Smith today. One example:Clinton?s performance Tuesday means the Democratic Party will not have a nominee before the August convention, and that means Indiana will get the TV ads, the...

Ind. Gov't. - Indiana, Land of Lincoln

Posted on March 09, 2008
Columnist Bob Hill wrote in the Louisville Courier Journal Feb. 14th:Three states now rightly claim Lincoln: Kentucky, where he lived his first seven years; Indiana, where he grew up, taught himself to read and write, and lived until he was...

Environment - Drafts of antidegradation rule not yet in a form reviewable by the public

Posted on March 08, 2008
A story in the Jan. 4 2008 NWI Times reported:A wastewater permit for U.S. Steel's Gary Works is on hold until Indiana environmental regulators can come up with a new antidegradation regulation to protect Lake Michigan. "We can't say they...

Ind. Decisions - "Decision to void ordinance could stop ethanol plant"

Posted on March 08, 2008
Anita Munson of the South Bend Tribune reports today in a story that begins:Judge Michael Cook's ruling that Argos' rezoning ordinance is unconstitutional and void has many residents wondering if the decision is the death knell for a proposed ethanol...

Ind. Courts - Prosecutor teaches lessons about MySpace and Facebook

Posted on March 08, 2008
Sophia Voravong of the Lafayette Journal & Courier has a very interesting feature today on Tippecanoe deputy prosecutor Chuck Hagen, who oversees juvenile cases. Some quotes:"I wanted mine low-profile. I think that's really important." That kind of foresight is being...

Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending March 7, 2008

Posted on March 07, 2008
Here is the Indiana Supreme Court's transfer list for the week ending March 7, 2008. Be sure to view all 4 pages. No transfers granted this week; one transfer "that was granted on 1/18/08, is now Denied." That would be...

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

Posted on March 07, 2008
For publication opinions today (6): In Tony A. Bell v. State of Indiana , a 13-page opinion, CJ Baker wrties:Appellant-defendant Tony A. Bell appeals his convictions for three counts of Dealing in Cocaine, a class A felony, and Possession of...

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

Posted on March 07, 2008
In Banco del Atlantico v. Woods Industries (SD Ind., Judge McKinney), a 9-page opinion, Judge Evans concludes:For these reasons, we see no basis on which to find that the district judge abused his discretion in dismissing the case as...

Courts - 8-Year-Old Passes Brazil's Law School Entrance Test

Posted on March 07, 2008
Tales Azzoni of the AP reports:An 8-year-old boy with dreams of becoming a judge has passed a law school entrance exam -- shocking Brazil's legal profession and prompting a federal investigation. The Universidade Paulista, a multi-campus private university, issued a...

Ind. Courts - More on: "Marion County's chief public defender stepping down"

Posted on March 07, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 7, 2007. quoting a story from the Indianapolis Star which began:Marion County Chief Public Defender David E. Cook will leave his post in February after 12 years in charge of the agency that represents...

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

Posted on March 07, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from Jan. 27th, Bob Kasarda of the NWI Times reports today:VALPARAISO | Former Hebron Town Council President Michael Haughee was sentenced Thursday to one year in jail after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman...

Ind. Courts - More on: Cookie scandal hits Allen County Clerk's office; becomes national story

Posted on March 07, 2008
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, an editorial today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette is headlined "Cookiegate a crummy deal." The editorial begins:Citizens want elected officials to be above reproach and uphold the public?s trust. But even to a demanding public,...

Ind. Gov't. - Bill to clarify circumstances for awarding education credits by DOC goes to Governor

Posted on March 07, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 12th, Lesley Stedman Weidenbener of the Louisville Courier Journal reports today in a story that begins:A bill championed by a Southern Indiana family that would clarify how education credits can be used to reduce...

Ind. Courts - Glitch may keep Elkhart Superior Court No. 5 candidate off ballot

Posted on March 07, 2008
John Kline reports today in the Goshen News:A glitch in the filing process may keep Middlebury attorney Fay Schwartz from getting her name on the ballot for the upcoming primary election. Schwartz is one of six Republican candidates currently vying...

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

Posted on March 06, 2008
For publication opinions today (2): In Jerry and Becky French v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. and Jane Hodson, a 16-page opinion, Judge Najam writes:Jerry and Becky French (the ?Frenches?) appeal from the trial court?s order granting summary judgment...

Ind. Courts - Cookie scandal hits Allen County Clerk's office; becomes national story

Posted on March 06, 2008
"National Public Radio's Morning Edition picks up Allen County court cookie story" is the headline to this item today in Mitch Harper's blog, Fort Wayne Observed....

Ind. Decisions - More on: Court has denied transfer in Home Place annexation case

Posted on March 06, 2008
Updating yesterday's entry, a story by Francesca Jarosz of the Indianapolis Star reports:Lawyers for Home Place residents say the Indiana Supreme Court's denying to review their fight against annexation by Carmel mean the city has won half the battle...

Ind. Courts - More on challenges to St. Joe County's merit selection of judges

Posted on March 06, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 28th, much of which dealt with efforts in the past two legislative sessions to change the way judges are selected in St. Joseph County, Pablo Ros has a story today in the South Bend...

Environment - New Energy Corp. apparently protests South Bend's pretreatment permit requirements

Posted on March 06, 2008
Jamie Loo reports today in the South Bend Tribune:New Energy Corp. has asked a judge for relief from a new, more stringent, city water discharge permit for its ethanol plant. The company claims the city issued the new permit, which...

Ind. Courts - "Tinder joins the big leagues with seat on 7th Circuit"

Posted on March 05, 2008
Maria Kantzavelos has this article in the March 5th Chicago Lawyer. A few quotes from the lengthy article:After 20 years on the federal bench in Indianapolis, in December [John Daniel] Tinder went from being the next in line for the...

Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit issues one Indiana decision

Posted on March 05, 2008
In United Rental Technologies v. Indiana Constructors (SD Ind., Judge Barker), a 14-page opinion, Judge Posner writes:Anyone who travels on the interstate system in northern states understands the force of the dictum that on the interstate highways in those...

Ind. Gov. - Gov. Daniels issues statement about the death of attorney and State Senator David Ford

Posted on March 05, 2008
From the release:?I knew Dave Ford as a fellow student early in life, as a legislator the last three years, and as a kind and thoughtful friend in between. I haven?t met a more insightful or harder working member of...

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

Posted on March 05, 2008
For publication opinions today (2): In Bryan Pierce v. Walter Martin , a 10-page opinion, Judge Sharpnack writes:Bryan Pierce appeals the denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus filed against Walter Martin, Superintendent of the Miami Correctional Facility...

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