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Law - "Law school: Big debt, shrinking payoff" [Updated]
Posted on April 27, 2010Ameet Sachdev writes about this in his "Chicago Law" column today in the Chicago Tribune. Here are a few quotes:The...
Courts - "Wal-Mart to face massive class-action suit"
Posted on April 27, 2010A story from Paul Elias of the AP in today's Washington Post begins:SAN FRANCISCO -- A sharply divided federal appeals...
Courts - "Kentucky Supreme Court rejects state funding for Baptist college"
Posted on April 27, 2010Updating this April 19, 2009 ILB entry headed "Can the Indiana General Assembly appropriate money to Notre Dame?" and the...
Ind. Courts - Update on: Marion County Traffic Court in the news today
Posted on April 27, 2010The Oct. 6, 2009 ILB entry began: "It is like siting a landfill or a nuclear plant." But today Francesca...
Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court posts one this afternoon
Posted on April 27, 2010In Gary Dennis Jackson v. State of Indiana, an 8-page, 5-0 opinion, Justice Boehm writes:The trial court declared a mistrial...
Catch-up: What did you miss over the weekend from the ILB?
Posted on April 26, 2010Here is the answer to "What did you miss from the ILB during the weekend?" From Sunday, April 25, 2010:...
Ind. Decisions - Upcoming oral arguments this week and next
Posted on April 26, 2010This week's oral arguments before the Supreme Court (week of 4/26/10): Thursday, April 29th 9:00 AM - Henry A....
Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending April 23, 2010
Posted on April 26, 2010Here is the Clerk's transfer list for the week ending April 23, 2010. It is 1 page long. No...
Ind. Decisions - Transfer lists searchable back to Feb. 2, 2004
Posted on April 26, 2010The ILB's unique feature, "Search the ILB Transfer Lists," allows you to do just that, back to Feb. 2, 2004....
Courts - "Should Supreme Court Opinions Be Anonymous?"
Posted on April 26, 2010Interesting post and comments at Above the Law....
Courts - "Justices Take Case on Video Game Law"
Posted on April 26, 2010The NY Times has just posted an AP story reporting:WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court, wading into a thicket of...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 2 today (and 11 NFP)
Posted on April 26, 2010For publication opinions today (2): In Rocky River Farms Inc. v. Loretta Porter, a 6-page opinion, Judge Robb writes:Rocky River...
Ind. Decisions - Two Indiana cases decided by 7th Circuit today
Posted on April 26, 2010In U.S. v. Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban (SD Ind., McKinney), a 5-page per curiam decision, the panel affirms...
Courts - "Pressure Grows to Pick a Nonjudge for the High Court: All nine justices on the current U.S. Supreme Court hail from the federal appellate bench"
Posted on April 26, 2010Tony Mauro has an interesting report this morning in The National Law Journal, that concludes:Yale Law School professor Stephen Carter,...
Environment - Again failure: "Asian carp debates heads to Supreme Court"
Posted on April 26, 2010Updating this ILB entry from April 23, 2010, Tina Lam of the Detroit Free Press reports this morning in a...
Courts - "Supreme Court takes up Wash. case involving disclosure of petition signatures: The case could decide whether signing a petition for a ballot measure is private or whether the names of signers can be made public"
Posted on April 25, 2010Next Wednesday, April 28, 2010, the SCOTUS will heard oral arguments in the case of Doe v. Reed. Here is...
About the ILB - ILB entries now listed on Twitter
Posted on April 25, 2010All ILB entries will now be listed on the ILB's Twitter account (previously used solely for ILB twits about the...
Law - "Learning How to Fight the Debt Collector"
Posted on April 25, 2010That is the headline to this lengthy story from the Saturday NY Times. A few quotes:Even as collectors try to...
Courts - "Honoring the Legacies of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., and Justice Thurgood Marshall" transcript
Posted on April 25, 2010The most recent issue of the Indiana Law Review contains the transcript of a Feb. 23, 2010 panel discussion...
Ind. Laws - ILB's Legislative Research Shortcuts updated
Posted on April 25, 2010The Indiana Law Blog's Legislative Research Shortcuts page has been updated....
Environment - Potential regulation of emissions from wood-fired outdoor boiler continues to "shock and surprise" some legislators
Posted on April 24, 2010The ILB has a very long list of entries on outdoor wood-fired boilers and efforts to regulate them so that...
Ind. Courts - Chief Justice Shepard: Indiana court filings on the rise
Posted on April 23, 2010So reports Maureen Hayden (the statehouse bureau chief for CNHI?s Indiana newspapers) in the April 22, 2010 New Albany News...
Ind. Courts - Notice of Proposed Rule Amendments by the Indiana Supreme Court Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure
Posted on April 23, 2010A number of rules changes are proposed in the trial, criminal, appellate and small claims rules. However, they mostly boil...
Environment - Again: "Asian carp debates heads to Supreme Court"
Posted on April 23, 2010Nathan Hurst reports today in the Detroit News:The court has twice rejected -- in January, and last month -- emergency...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 2 today (and 4 NFP)
Posted on April 23, 2010For publication opinions today (2): In Farmers Elevator Co., et al. v. John A. Hamilton , a 23-page opinion, Judge...
Ind. Decisions - One tax court opinion posted today
Posted on April 23, 2010In Carol Bean, et al. v. Indiana Department of Revenue, a 9-page opinion, Judge Fisher writes:The Estate of Forrest W....
Courts - If only the SCOTUS would permit cameras at oral arguments, comedians wouldn't have to do reenactments using finger puppets
Posted on April 22, 2010Updating this ILB entry from April 20, 2010, headed "Our 'tech-savvy' supreme court", New York Magazine has an item this...
Ind. Courts - "Senate confirms Capp as U.S. attorney"
Posted on April 22, 2010Dan Hinkel of the NWI Times reports in a story that begins:U.S. senators have confirmed veteran federal prosecutor David Capp...
Courts - 7th Circuit Judge Diane P. Wood and her colleagues, Judges Posner and Easterbrook
Posted on April 22, 2010"Judicial Bouts Reveal Power of Persuasion" is the heading to this long article by Sheryl Gay Stolberg in today's NY...
Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit decides one Indiana case today
Posted on April 22, 2010The 63-page en banc opinion is Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services v. Indiana FSSA. It was heard before EASTERBROOK,...
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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....








