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Ind. Courts - "Courthouse elevator repair plan stuck"

Posted on February 21, 2008
Andy Grimm reports in the Gary Post Tribune:CROWN POINT -- Plans to repair the perpetually malfunctioning elevators at Lake County's Gary courthouse remain stuck in the basement after a county Board of Commissioners meeting Wednesday. Commissioners and members of the...

Courts - SCOTUS favors federal pre-emption in three cases yesterday

Posted on February 21, 2008
The Legal Times Tony Mauro reports today:In three key business rulings handed down Wednesday, the Supreme Court continued its trend toward freeing companies from the conflicting regulation of 50 different states in favor of one federal regime. The Court favored...

Ind. Courts - Judge Carr Darden of the Indiana Court of Appeals featured

Posted on February 21, 2008
Indianapolis WTHR (channel 13) Eyewitness News last evening had a feature by Sandra Chapman headed "Judge devotes career to protecting rights of the most vulnerable." You may view it or read it here. The story begins:There's often an over-looked segment...

Environment - Governor signs Great Lakes Compact

Posted on February 20, 2008
A news release this afternoon from the Governor Daniels' office provides:INDIANAPOLIS (February 20, 2008) ? Governor Mitch Daniels today signed the Great Lakes compact, SEA 45, making Indiana the first state to implement the added protections the interstate agreement provides...

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Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit "on the warpath today"

Posted on February 20, 2008
Fortunately no Indiana cases were decided today, but see these two entries from Robert Loblaw's Decision of the Day. The first is a posting titled "Seventh Trashes Prominent Finance Professor", which begins:The Seventh Circuit is well-known for trashing the reputation...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 6 today (and 15 NFP)

Posted on February 20, 2008
For publication opinions today (6): Mark Liddy v. Kathleen Liddy - "We find that a party opposing emancipation pursuant to Indiana Code � 31-16-6-6(a)(2) bears the burden of proving incapacitation. However, there is no indication that the trial court improperly...

Ind. Courts - "Republican enters Delaware Circuit Court 3 race"

Posted on February 20, 2008
Rick Yencer reports today in the Muncie Star-Press:A local defense attorney has jumped into the growing race for Delaware Circuit Court 3 judge that already has a Democratic primary contest. Mark Delgado, 35, also a captain in the Indiana National...

Courts - More on: "A Judge?s ?Inexplicable Madness? Over a Cellphone"

Posted on February 20, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 27, 2007, an article today by Joel Stashenko of the New York Law Journal is titled: "Amicus Briefs Pile Up in Bid to Sway N.Y. High Court on Judge's Removal Over Cell Phone Incident."...

Ind. Courts - Judicial races in Porter County

Posted on February 20, 2008
Bob Kasarda reports today in the NWI Times:VALPARAISO | Former Portage city judge and deputy prosecutor William Suarez announced he will seek to unseat Porter Superior Judge Roger Bradford. Suarez, 73, is running as Democrat. Bradford is a Republican...

Law - Professor says suits over formaldehyde in trailers are likely to focus more on manufacturers than dealers

Posted on February 20, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from Jan. 19th ("FEMA offers refunds on toxic trailers") and this one from Sept. 28, 2005 ("Trailers flow from Indiana to Gulf Coast"), see this story today by Ben Zion Hershberg of the LCJ, headlined "Lawsuits...

Ind. Decisions - Updating: Do the changes to the sex offender law mean longtime homeowners must move?

Posted on February 20, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 18, 2007 on the three cases pending in Tippecanoe County, Sophia Vorovong of the Lafayette Journal Courier reports today:Two Tippecanoe County judges ruled Tuesday that the safety of the community's children trumps objections raised...

Law - New movie about the legal profession

Posted on February 19, 2008
A review of the George Clooney movie, Michael Clayton, appears in today's Slate....

Environment - Still more on: "EPA's mercury rule struck down"

Posted on February 19, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 18, here is a report from H. Josef Hebert of the AP that appeared nationally. It begins:WASHINGTON?While arguing in court that states are free to enact tougher mercury controls from power plants, the Bush...

Ind. Courts - More on: A Marion County public defender caught in child solicitation sting

Posted on February 19, 2008
This afternoon Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star has a report that begins:The Marion County Public Defender Agency suspended an attorney without pay today after his arrest in an online sex sting. Ryan W. Snyder, 29, 3700 block of Knickerbocker...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 6 today (and 12 NFP)

Posted on February 19, 2008
For publication opinions today (6): In Gary School Corporation v. Tom Powell , a 9-page opinion, Chief Judge Baker writes:Tom Powell worked for Gary Community School Corporation (Gary) as a full-time teacher and a part-time football coach. After taking a...

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

Posted on February 19, 2008
In Kentuckiana Healthcare v. Fourth Street Solutions (SD Ind., Judge Hamilton), a 7-page opinion, Judge Posner affirms the district court decision:After the substitution of Fourth Street Solutions for Kentuckiana, Scott County Nursing & Wellness Center (SCNW) continued for a...

Environment - Yet more on "Great Lakes Compact on track"[Updated]

Posted on February 19, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 13th, an AP story carried by the Chesterton Tribune and a number of out-of-state papers reported yesterday, in a story that begins:TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) ? An interstate water compact designed to prevent thirsty...

Courts - More on: The plot of John Grisham's latest novel may have already come to life in W. Va.

Posted on February 19, 2008
A quote from NPR in this Feb. 11th ILB entry about the West Virginia Supreme Court:Three of the five state Supreme Court justices have been asked to recuse themselves from rehearing a case in March involving one of the biggest...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 2 today (and 5 NFP)

Posted on February 18, 2008
For publication opinions today (2): In Awilda Gonzalez v. Wal-Mart , a 10-page opinion, Chief Judge Baker writes:Awilda Gonzalez and Antonio Laguna married in 1987 but eventually separated and maintained different residences. Two months after starting a new job, Antonio...

Ind. Courts - A Marion County public defender caught in child solicitation sting

Posted on February 18, 2008
Vic Ryckaert of the Indianapolis Star reports today:A man who works as a Marion County public defender was arrested Sunday for allegedly soliciting an underage girl he met over the Internet. Ryan Snyder, 29, 3700 block of Knickerboker Place, was...

Environment - More on: "EPA's mercury rule struck down"

Posted on February 18, 2008
Updating this lengthy ILB entry from Feb. 10th, Mark Wilson of the Evansville C&P reports today:Environmental organizations disappointed by the mercury emission limits adopted by Indiana last year are hopeful a federal court's decision to strike down the U...

Environment - More on: Section 303(d) List of Impaired Waters up for public comment through end of January

Posted on February 18, 2008
Updating this ILB from Jan. 28th, Rick Callahan of the AP reports today in a long story that begins:A shift in how Indiana compiles a federally mandated list of its polluted waterways has removed about 800 stretches of rivers and...

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

Posted on February 18, 2008
The Evansville Courier & Press' Bryan Corbin's review this Monday (usually seen on Sundays) of the past week in the General Assembly is headlined "Illegal immigration on Senate agenda."...

Ind. Decisions - Upcoming oral arguments this week

Posted on February 18, 2008
This week's oral arguments before the Supreme Court: This Friday, Feb. 22nd: 9:00 AM - Indiana State University v. Review Bd. of Indiana Dep't of Workforce Dev. - After Indiana State University did not reappoint an assistant professor for the...

Ind. Courts - Vigo court records to be destroyed

Posted on February 17, 2008
Howard Greninger of the Terre Haute Trib-Star, reports today:Maintaining court records, as well as documents for other county government offices, can generate a lot of paper. Currently, the county is leasing space at Sixth Street and Wabash Avenue to store...

Ind. Courts - "Wilkes trial costs adding up"

Posted on February 17, 2008
Kate Braser of the Evansville C & P writes today:Even with his trial and death penalty sentencing completed, the costs for defending triple murderer Daniel Ray Wilkes continue to mount for Vanderburgh County. The price tag for the case was...

Ind. Courts - Focus on party slates for Marion County judicial primary

Posted on February 17, 2008
Gary Welsh of Advance Indiana, in an entry headed "GOP Dumps Three Sitting Judges In Slating," today looks at the judicial candidates the two parties slated this weekend for the May primary. For more information on the Marion County candidates,...

Ind. Gov't. - "State lax in curbing homestead-credit abuse"

Posted on February 17, 2008
Benjamin Lanka of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette has a long and comprehensive article today on problems with preventing abuse of the homestead exemption. A few quotes:Indiana?s homestead credit lowers homeowners? tax bills in an effort to keep them from...

Ind. Courts - Reports on bills of interest to the Judiciary that were discussed last week

Posted on February 17, 2008
Last Friday, Feb. 15th, the Indiana Judicial Center posted the seventh installment of its very useful reports for 2008 on bills of interest to the judiciary. Access them here. Friday's report begins:There were several bills of interest heard this week,...

Courts - "Sex, Lies, Hostility in the Florida Appellate Court"

Posted on February 16, 2008
Scott Michels of ABC News has this pretty astonishing story that begins:A written opinion by a state appellate court judge in Florida that criticized one of his fellow judges has spiraled into a rare public airing of personal grievances between...

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