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Courts - "More Strapped Litigants Skip Lawyers in Court "
Posted on July 22, 2010That is the headline to this story by Nathan Koppel in today's WSt Journal. A few quotes:A growing number of...
Ind. Decisions - "May Child?s Grandfather Adopt the Child, While the Child?s Mother Retains Her Parental Rights?"
Posted on July 22, 2010Prof. Eugene Volokh picks up on In re Adoption of A.M.; M.M. v. M.M. & A.C., a 2-1 decision yesterday...
Law - More on "Finding Accurate Law Text Online Nearly Impossible"
Posted on July 21, 2010Updating this ILB entry from July 31, 2009, Eugene Volokh in his blog yesterday (7/20/2010) wrote in part, after finding...
Courts - "Pick for Calif. Chief Justice Could Create Court's First Female Majority "
Posted on July 21, 2010The Recorder is reporting today that:Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Third District Court of Appeal Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye to be...
Ind. Gov't. - "Indiana contends IBM welfare work was flawed from the start"
Posted on July 21, 2010Ken Kusmer of the AP reports this afternoon in a story on the on-going lawsuit in Marion County Superior Court...
Ind. Decisions - More on: NCAA Class Action Reinstated
Posted on July 21, 2010Updating this ILB case summary from July 16th, Jon Hood of ConsumerAffairs.com has this story today headed "NCAA Class Action...
Ind. Courts - Nominations open for "Excellence in Public Information and Education" awards
Posted on July 21, 2010This information appears today on the Indiana Courts homepage: Indiana Judges Association Commendation for Excellencein Public Information and Education...
Environment - "Indiana lawmakers were the only ones in the country to take campaign donations from BP last month"
Posted on July 21, 2010So reports Gitte Laasby today in the Gary Post Tribune - some quotes:Since BP's oil spill three months ago, the...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 6 today (and 4 NFP)
Posted on July 21, 2010For publication opinions today (6): In Adoption of A.M.; M.M. v. M.M. & A.C., an 18-page, 2-1 opinion, Judge Brown...
Law - "Georgia softens once lauded strict sex offender law"
Posted on July 21, 2010Greg Bluestein reported this AP story on Monday, July 19. Both Sentencing Law Blog and WSJ Law Blog have picked...
Ind. Courts - Still more on "Magistrates failing to keep up with case loads"
Posted on July 21, 2010Updating his earlier stories, Bob Kasarda reports today in the NWI Times:VALPARAISO | The county's judges agreed Tuesday evening to...
Courts - "With another woman, the SCOTUS can't help but change"
Posted on July 21, 2010Check out David S. Broder's column for tomorrow's Washington Post....
Ind. Courts - More on "Ind. accused of cutting aid to food stamp users" [Now with copy of complaint]
Posted on July 21, 2010"Indiana changes food stamp policy that drew fire" is the headline to a story posted late this afternoon by Charles...
Law - "FinReg: A Full Employment Act for the Nation?s Lawyers?"
Posted on July 20, 2010Ashby Jones asked that question Friday in the WSJ Law Blog. He cites a story in the Toronto Globe &...
Ind. Courts - More on "Magistrates failing to keep up with case loads"
Posted on July 20, 2010Updating this ILB entry from July 11th, Bob Kasarda reports today in the NWI Times that begins:VALPARAISO | Porter County...
Ind. Courts - "Ind. accused of cutting aid to food stamp users"
Posted on July 20, 2010Charles Wilson of the AP has a very good story this afternoon on the State's food stamp program and the...
Environment - More on: Five states file Asian Carp suit
Posted on July 20, 2010As reported in this ILB entry yesterday, suit was filed yesterday in USDC, ND Illinois by Great Lakes five states:...
Ind. Decisions - Tax Court decides one today
Posted on July 20, 2010In Dekalb Co. Eastern Community School District v. Dept. of Local Government Finance, a 7-page opinion, Judge Fisher writes:The DeKalb...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 3 today (and 12 NFP)
Posted on July 20, 2010For publication opinions today (3): In John Thomas Pontius v. State of Indiana , a 15-page opinion, Judge Bradford writes:Following...
Ind. Decisions - Two Indiana cases today from 7th Circuit
Posted on July 20, 2010In Chaney v. Plainfield Healthcare Center (SD Ind., Barker), a 17-page opinion, Judge Williams writes:This case pits a health-care...
Ind. Courts - David Schanker, former Deputy Clerk of the Ind. Courts, dies in Wisconsin
Posted on July 20, 2010Inside Track, a publication of the State Bar of Wisconsin, reports in a story dated July 21st:On July 5, clerk...
Ind. Courts - Nine seeking to fill Judge Pratt's Marion Superior Court vacancy
Posted on July 20, 2010Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star has posted this entry on Justice Watch, including the names of the nine applicants:By...
Ind. Courts - "Ind. accused of cutting aid to food stamp users" [Now with copy of complaint]
Posted on July 20, 2010Charles Wilson of the AP has a very good story this afternoon on the State's food stamp program and the...
Environment - Five states file Asian Carp suit [Updated]
Posted on July 19, 2010"Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and Pennsylvania filed the lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in northern Illinois," reports John Flesher...
Environment - "State plans to regulate phosphorus in lakes: But it will take many initiatives to slow down nutrient pollution of Indiana's lakes"
Posted on July 19, 2010Seth Slabaugh of the Muncie Star-Press reports today that the regulation will be aimed at wastewater treatment plants, not agriculture,...
Ind. Decisions - One NFP today from Tax Court
Posted on July 19, 2010In Country Acres Limited Partnership v. Pleasant Township Assessor, and LaPorte County Assessor (NFP), an 11-page opinion, Judge Fisher writes:In...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 2 today (and 10 NFP)
Posted on July 19, 2010For publication opinions today (2): In Isaac Florian, et al. v. GATX Rail Corporation , a 21-page opinion, Judge Mathias...
Ind. Courts - "Indiana Trial Court Administration Manual"
Posted on July 19, 2010According to the notice:This 2010 manual?divided into 37 chapters of summary information on each topic?provides an introduction to issues that...
Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending July 16, 2010
Posted on July 19, 2010Here is the Clerk's transfer list for the week ending July 16, 2010. It is two pages (and 22...
Ind. Courts - New judge nominated for 7th Circuit, to replace Judge Evans
Posted on July 19, 2010John Diedrich of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported July 15th:President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated Victoria F. Nourse to serve...
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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....








