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Ind. Decisions - "Supreme Court Sides With Insureds in Farm Liability Dispute"
Posted on May 04, 2010The Supreme Court's decision April 29th in the case of Everett Cash Mutual Insurance Company v. Rick Taylor and Katrina...
Law - More on "School Law Clinics Face a Backlash"
Posted on May 04, 2010Updating this ILB entry from April 3, 2010, today Karen Sloan of The National Law Journal has a story headed:...
Indiana Decisions - Maybe not today [Updated]
Posted on May 04, 2010The Court's Indiana Opinions pages havn't been updated today -- they still show Monday's date. That means there may be...
Ind. Gov't. - More on "IBM bills state $125 million"
Posted on May 04, 2010Updating this ILB entry from May 2nd, quoting stories in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, the same paper today has...
Catch-up: What did you miss over the weekend from the ILB?
Posted on May 03, 2010Here is the answer to "What did you miss from the ILB during the weekend?" From Sunday, May 2, 2010:...
Ind. Decisions - Upcoming oral arguments this week and next
Posted on May 03, 2010This week's oral arguments before the Supreme Court (week of 5/3/10): Thursday, May 6th 10:15 AM - Joshua Nicoson...
Environment - "State breaks silence on 'Easterly's Pile'"
Posted on May 03, 2010"Easterly's pile" has been the subject of several earlier ILB entries. Today Gitte Laasby of the Gary Post Tribune reports...
Law - "Illinois hair-braiding bill offers regulatory compromise"
Posted on May 03, 2010The Sunday NWI Times had this lengthy story by Karen Hawkins -- some quotes:Oumou Wague has been braiding hair in...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 0 today (and 1 NFP)
Posted on May 03, 2010For publication opinions today (0): NFP civil opinions today (0): NFP criminal opinions today (0): Donald Smith v. State of...
Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit decides Indiana case today
Posted on May 03, 2010In Goudy v. Basinger, Sup. (SD Ind., McKinney), a 15-page opinion, Judge Bauer writes:An Indiana jury convicted Walter Lee...
Ind. Gov't. - More on: "Promises with a Price: Public Sector Retirement Benefits"; Indiana impacts
Posted on May 03, 2010Updating this Feb. 22, 2010 ILB entry on the Pew Report, here is a report from the Center for State...
Ind. Gov't. - "Job seekers tap library computers in droves"
Posted on May 03, 2010Chelsea Schnieder Kirk reports today in the Gary Post Tribune:Most Sundays, the line in front of Central Library in Merrillville...
Environment - "Kentucky tries to interest fishermen to haul in huge carp"
Posted on May 03, 2010James Bruggers reports today in the Louisville Courier Journal in a story that begins:They say they taste like tuna. Or...
Ind. Gov't. - "Attorney for East Chicago nets big contract "
Posted on May 03, 2010Steve Zabroski reports today in the NWI Times:EAST CHICAGO | The struggling city's top lawyer -- who also is a...
Ind. Decisions - More on "Term. of Parent-Child Rel. of I.B.; M.L., et al"
Posted on May 03, 2010Updating this ILB entry from April 30, which lists Term. of Parent-Child Rel. of I.B.; M.L., et al v. IDCS...
Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending April 30, 2010
Posted on May 03, 2010Here is the Clerk's transfer list for the week ending April 30, 2010. It is 2 pages long. Three...
Courts - More on "Justices Take Case on Video Game Law"
Posted on May 02, 2010Updating this ILB entry from April 26, 2010, Linda Greenhouse, the former Supreme Court correspondent for the NY Times who...
Ind. Gov't. - "IBM bills state $125 million"
Posted on May 02, 2010Angela Mapes Turner reports today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette in a long story that begins:IBM Corp. claims Indiana...
Ind. Gov't. - PAC opinion on access to certain IDEM records
Posted on May 02, 2010For several years the ILB wrote of concerns about potentially "secret dockets" in Indiana -- appeals which were not...
Ind. Courts - "Religion, prayer and government"
Posted on May 02, 2010From a story in the April 16, 2010 issue of USA Today headed "Judge rules National Day of Prayer unconstitutional":MADISON,...
Ind. Law - "Police reaping more drug money"
Posted on May 02, 2010Some quotes from a long story today by Jeff Wiehe of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:In recent years, both the...
Ind. Decisions - More on: Judge Barker rules in Greenwood school prayer case
Posted on May 01, 2010Updating yesterday's ILB entry, which includes a copy of Judge Barker's 21-page Order, John Tuohy and Melanie Hayes of the...
Ind. Gov't. - "Governor: Bankruptcy law needed in case cities fail "
Posted on May 01, 2010Jon Seidel of the Gary Post Tribune has this report this morning. Some quotes from the long story:Gov. Mitch Daniels...
Ind. Decisions - "Court dismisses lawsuit from Elkhart recycling plant neighbors"
Posted on May 01, 2010The Court of Appeals decision Friday in the case of Bellows et al v. Board of Commissioners of the County...
Courts - Angry filings in Cook County dispute
Posted on April 30, 2010Above the Law has an entry this afternoon containing quotes from, and links to, a motion to reconisder and a...
Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court grants three transfers today
Posted on April 30, 2010The Clerk's transfer list should be available Monday, but meanwhile the ILB has received notice that the Supreme Court...
Ind. Decisoins - One today from the Supreme Court
Posted on April 30, 2010In Julie Gardiner v. State of Indiana, a 6-page, 5-0 opinion, Justice Rucker writes:In this case of first impression we...
Ind. Decisions - One Indiana decision today from the 7th Circuit
Posted on April 30, 2010U.S. v. Dunson (SD Ind., Tinder), a 3-page per curiam opinion, concludes:Although Dunson was not sentenced as an armed...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 4 today (and 4 NFP)
Posted on April 30, 2010For publication opinions today (4): In Joyce Bellows, Edgar Bellows, Barbara Stutsman, and Wayne Stutsman v. Board of Commissioners of...
Courts - "New Push to Give Abuse Victims More Time to Sue: Latest Scandals to Hit the Catholic Church Ratchet Up Pressure on State Lawmakers to Extend or Eliminate Statutes of Limitations"
Posted on April 30, 2010Ashby Jones has a long story in today in the WSJ - some quotes:The recent wave of accusations that 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....








