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Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 3 today (and 6 NFP)
Posted on June 14, 2010For publication opinions today (3): In Ronald D. Dean v. State of Indiana , an 8-page opinion, Judge Riley writes:Dean...
Courts - SCOTUS news from today [Updated]
Posted on June 14, 2010Updating this ILB entry from June 9th, headed "Indiana confrontation clause case being considered for cert by SCOTUS at the...
Courts - "Repeat DUI offenders a challenge for law enforcement"
Posted on June 14, 2010David Singleton reported June 13, 2010 in the Scranton Pa Times-Tribune about "double DUIs" - cases where motorrists arrested for...
Ind. Courts - Robocall suits in two courts
Posted on June 14, 2010Tricia L. Nadolny reports today in the Indianapolis Star about a suit in federal court, in a story that begins:An...
Ind. Courts - Tanya Walton Pratt set for Senate vote
Posted on June 14, 2010Last Monday, June 7, 2010, Jane E. Magnus-Stinson was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be United States District Judge...
Catch-up: What did you miss over the weekend from the ILB?
Posted on June 14, 2010Here is the answer to "What did you miss over the weekend from the ILB? From Sunday, June 13,...
Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending June 11, 2010
Posted on June 14, 2010No transfer list has as yet been posted on the Court site for the week ending June 11, 2010.....
Ind. Law - More on "Allen County hires outsiders to defend in abortion dispute"
Posted on June 13, 2010Yet another story today on Fort Wayne's new ordinance, this one by FWJG reporter Angela Mapes Turner. (See entry on...
Ind. Law - More on: "Legislator who created ID bill regarding alcohol now wants the law changed"
Posted on June 13, 2010Following on a story June 11th, the South Bend Tribune has another story today, by a second reporter, Daryl Bjorass,...
Ind. Courts - Marion County Juvenile Court Judge Marilyn Moores, a Lt. Colonel, is off to Afghanistan for a year
Posted on June 13, 2010Not as a judge advocate, but as a horse expert, part of an agricultural support team. According to a long...
Law - "Legacy for One Billionaire: Death, but No Taxes" (Ripped from the Headlines)
Posted on June 13, 2010This story from last Tuesday's NY Times bears some similarities to a recent episode of Law & Order, but I...
Ind. Courts - Marion County Juvenile Court Judge Marilyn Moores, a Lt. Colonel, is off to Afghanistan for a year [Updated]
Posted on June 13, 2010Not as a judge advocate, but as a horse expert, part of an agricultural support team. According to a long...
Courts - SCOTUS term's pending cases
Posted on June 12, 2010SCOTUSblog has a good roundup by Anna Christensen of what is likely coming yet this month. The intro:So far, the...
Ind. Law - "Allen County hires outsiders to defend in abortion dispute"
Posted on June 12, 2010Updating this ILB entry from June 10, 2010, where the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reported that the county commissioners were...
Ind. Courts - Class action filed re State's failure to timely process unemployment claims
Posted on June 12, 2010The 12-page complaint, filed yesterday by the ACLU on behalf of John Gorman and those similarly situated, contends:51. As set...
Ind. Courts - "State's toxicology department might be better off on its own than under the administration of IU's medical school"
Posted on June 12, 2010Supplementing these ILB entries from May 13, May 14, and May 29, 2010, that is how this story by Will...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 2 today (and 5 NFP)
Posted on June 11, 2010For publication opinions today (2): In Sam's East, Inc. v. United Energy Corporation, Inc., et al. , a 9-page opinion,...
Ind. Law - "Legislator who created ID bill regarding alcohol now wants the law changed"
Posted on June 11, 2010Kristin Bell reports today in the South Bend Tribune:MISHAWAKA ? A new law taking effect on July 1 could be...
Ind. Gov't. - More on: "Districts' lawsuit may spark political fireworks"
Posted on June 11, 2010Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 24, 2010, Carrie Ritchie reports today in the Indianapolis Star:Three school districts suing the...
Law - "Restoring leadership and integrity to the Office of Legal Counsel"
Posted on June 11, 2010Dawn Johnsen is identified in her Washington Post column today as "The writer, a professor at Indiana University Maurer School...
Environment - More on: Gov. Mitch Daniels announces a major land conservation initiative
Posted on June 11, 2010Updating this ILB entry from yesterday, this morning Gov. Daniels announced the second-part of the program. Today's news release begins:SCOTTSBURG,...
Courts: More on "Distasteful speech protected, too"
Posted on June 11, 2010Last Sunday the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette published a commentary authored by their Washington editor, Sylvia A. Smith. The subject:...
Ind. Courts - "Judge changes mind on deal"
Posted on June 10, 2010From the LaPorte Herald Argus today, this brief story:A woman was almost off the hook until a judge learned it...
Environment - "Covering The Environmental Beat In Northwest Indiana"
Posted on June 10, 2010Dave Dempsey of Ecolocalizer has a great article today on the Gary Post Tribune's outstanding environmental reporter, Gitte Laasby. It...
Environment - Gov. Mitch Daniels announces a major land conservation initiative
Posted on June 10, 2010Lesley Stedman Weidenbener of the Louisville Courier Journal has a story here. Here is the long news release....
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 4 today (and 4 NFP)
Posted on June 10, 2010For publication opinions today (4): Viola Parsley, et al. v. Loogootee Realty, LLC - "We can conceive of many...
Courts - Justice Souter's Harvard Commencement remarks
Posted on June 10, 2010Here, via the Harvard Gazette, is the text of the remarks Justice David Souter delivered at Harvard's 359th Commencement. And...
Courts - "400 drunken-driving convictions in D.C. based on flawed test, official says"
Posted on June 10, 2010Mary Pat Flaherty of the Washington Post reports today:Nearly 400 people were convicted of driving while intoxicated in the District...
Ind. Courts - ?This may well be the first time an Indiana judge presided over a hearing in an Indiana courtroom while being physically located in another state"
Posted on June 10, 2010Pat Munsey reports today in the Kokomo Perspective:On Wednesday, June 2, there were 11 Drug Court program hearings scheduled to...
Ind. Gov't. - "Only one state, Indiana, refused to provide any answers on timeliness despite repeated phone and public records requests"
Posted on June 10, 2010That quote is from a story today in the Panama City Florida News Herald, reported by Michelle Roberts of the...
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The plates & registration are currently valid and acknowledged by the state.The issue is these plates were on a car I owned and sold privately and legally.Per the Indiana BMV, I can legally transfer plates,which I did. I
That would depend on if you registered the plate to your new vehicle with the BM...
Can a city library prevent you from using thier facilities based on a school district being from another city reaching into your city?
that seems a little ridiculous that they would do that. libraries are supposed t...
Is it libel to write blog posts and/or online reviews about a local business that defames one's reputation?
Libel is the form of defamation expressed in fixed-- usually written form. Sland...
How can I make my blog more popular?
You have to write and submit articles, with backlinks to your blogsite....

The plates & registration are currently valid and acknowledged by the state.The issue is these plates were on a car I owned and sold privately and legally.Per the Indiana BMV, I can legally transfer plates,which I did. I
That would depend on if you registered the plate to your new vehicle with the BM...
Can a city library prevent you from using thier facilities based on a school district being from another city reaching into your city?
that seems a little ridiculous that they would do that. libraries are supposed t...
Is it libel to write blog posts and/or online reviews about a local business that defames one's reputation?
Libel is the form of defamation expressed in fixed-- usually written form. Sland...
How can I make my blog more popular?
You have to write and submit articles, with backlinks to your blogsite....








