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Ind. Courts - "Judge Cecile Blau passes Clark County Drug Court to Judge Jerry Jacobi"

Posted on December 04, 2008
Jerod Clapp reports today in the Jeffersonville News & Tribune, in a story that begins:After more than six years of serving as the judge for the Clark County Drug Treatment Court, Judge Cecile Blau is stepping down from her seat...

Environment - "BP's sale of pollution-control bonds is part of a controversial plan to expand its refinery in Whiting, Ind."

Posted on December 04, 2008
For a good update on the BP project in NW Indiana, see this report today in The Bond Buyer that begins:CHICAGO - BP this week sold $200 million of tax-exempt bonds to launch a roughly $1 billion pollution-control project that's...

Courts - "if an emoticon amounts to government inducement, then an exclamation point must be, too"

Posted on December 04, 2008
To understand the context, see this WSJ Law Blog entry, headed "Emoticons on Trial at the Nebraska Supreme Court."...

Law - Just out: 2nd GAO report on TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program)

Posted on December 04, 2008
The GAO has just released a 24-page report, subtitled "Status of Efforts to Address Defaults and Foreclosures on Home Mortgages." The link to the 1st report, released Tuesday, subtitled "Additional Actions Needed to Better Ensure Integrity, Accountability, and Transparency," is...

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Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit issues one today

Posted on December 04, 2008
In Kevin Unthank v. Brian Jett, Warden (SD Ind., Judge McKinney), a 5-page opinion, Judge Easterbrook writes: More than a decade ago, we affirmed Kevin Unthank?s conviction and 262-month sentence for violating federal drug laws. United States v. Unthank,...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 0 today (and 3 NFP)

Posted on December 04, 2008
For publication opinions today (0): NFP civil opinions today (0): NFP criminal opinions today (3): Jack D. McArdle III v. State of Indiana (NFP) Travis Stout v. State of Indiana (NFP) Jerome Reed v. State of Indiana (NFP)...

Ind. Law - "Another Indy law firm acquired in merger"

Posted on December 04, 2008
Tom Spaulding of the Indianapolis Star reports today:Partners at the law firms Frost Brown Todd LLC and Locke Reynolds LP of Indianapolis approved a merger agreement late Wednesday, according to a published report. The Business Courier of Cincinnati reported about...

Courts - NY Commission nominates 7 men to replace Judith S. Kaye, chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeals

Posted on December 03, 2008
"Lack of Women on Court List Draws Fire" is the heading to this entry in the NY Times City Room blog, written by Sewell Chan....

Ind. Law - Report on the current status of the Indiana statutes on the General Assembly website

Posted on December 03, 2008
I am delighted to report that within the last few days the General Assembly has made available online the Session Law Disposition Table I wrote about in my November 2008 Res Gestae article, "Recodifications, legislative histories and tables - Part...

Ind. Decisions - Tax Court posts one

Posted on December 03, 2008
Dated Dec. 2, 2008, the Tax Court has posted Clark-Pleasant Community School Corp. v. Dept. of Local Government Finance (NFP), a 14-page opinion where Judge Fisher concludes: This Court will give deference to whatever factor or reason the DLGF bases....

Environment - More on "High Court Case Tests Power Plants' Water Rules"

Posted on December 03, 2008
The Washington Post today has an editorial on the power plant intake cases argued yesterday before the Supreme Court. The editorial concludes:A plain reading of the intake provision strongly suggests that Congress intended the agency, first and foremost, to identify...

Ind. Courts - "Clerks find ways to shuffle county history"

Posted on December 03, 2008
Jane Huh of the Gary Post-Tribune reports today:Organizational skills are a prerequisite for those who work at county clerk offices, a depository for local public records. At the Lake and Porter county clerk offices, categorized documents are kept in files...

Ind. Decisions - "Weidas lose appeal; West Lafayette law called 'vague'"

Posted on December 03, 2008
Yesterday's Court of Appeals decision in the case of Jerry M. and Patti A. Weida v. City of West Lafayette (see ILB summary here - 3rd case) is the subject of a story today in the Lafayette Journal Courier, reported...

Ind. Courts - "Indiana prosecutor is under investigation for alleged misconduct in forfeiture cases"

Posted on December 03, 2008
That is the headline to a long story, dated Nov. 25th, reported by Mary Spicuzza in the national blog Asset Forfeiture Watch.com. The report begins:An Indiana prosecutor is under investigation for a scheme that allowed him to personally collect a...

Environment - "High Court Case Tests Power Plants' Water Rules"

Posted on December 02, 2008
Today, according to SCOTUS Blog, the U.S. Supreme Court "will hear argument in Entergy Corp. v. EPA (07-588) and two consolidated cases, on the regulation of cooling water intake structures under the Clean Water Act." The issue:Whether the Clean Water...

Law - "Obama To Tackle Explosion In Federal Contracts"

Posted on December 02, 2008
Outsourcing government work - the explosion in government contracts under the Bush administration - is the subject of a two-part NPR story by Daniel Zwerdling. Part I, which ran yesterday, is here - you can read it or listen to...

Ind. Decisions - Still more on Indiana's Little Hatch Act

Posted on December 02, 2008
Following up on its two stories Sunday, the Evansville Courier & Press today has an editorial headed "Not everyone is a federal employee."...

Law - "A simple checklist for legislators to follow that could dramatically reduce the number of unnecessary lawsuits"

Posted on December 02, 2008
Peter H. Schuck, a professor at Yale Law School, a very interesting article in The American Lawyer. It begins:Every once in a while, legislators can learn from doctors. In late June, the World Health Organization issued its first guidelines for...

Law - Just out: GAO report on TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program)

Posted on December 02, 2008
The GAO has just released a 72-page report, subtitled "Additional Actions Needed to Better Ensure Integrity, Accountability, and Transparency."...

Environment - Legislator to introduce two CAFO bills

Posted on December 02, 2008
From a press release issued this afternoon:INDIANAPOLIS ? People seeking to start confined feeding operations in Indiana would be required to submit to a background check in order to receive a license, according to legislation authored by State Rep. David...

Ind. Courts - Governor appoints Miami Superior Court judge

Posted on December 02, 2008
From the news release:INDIANAPOLIS (December 2, 2008) - Governor Mitch Daniels today announced the appointment of Daniel C. Banina as judge of the newly created Miami Superior Court II. Banina, of Peru, has served as judge of the Miami Superior...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 4 today (and 5 NFP)

Posted on December 02, 2008
For publication opinions today (3): In Termination of Parental Rights for S.B. and D.B., a 10-page opinion, Judge Riley writes: Appellant-Respondent, Daniel Bailey, Sr. (Father), appeals the trial court?s involuntary termination of his parental rights to his children, S...

Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit issues one Indiana decision today

Posted on December 02, 2008
In U.S. v. Prieto (ND Ind., Judge Simon), a 27-page opinion, Judge Manion writes: After a traffic stop, officers found over four kilograms of methamphetamine hidden in the bumpers of the Honda Civic in which the defendants Thomas Prieto...

Environment - More on: Who is responsible for cleanup costs?

Posted on December 02, 2008
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, WLKI News is reporting today:(ANGOLA) - Steuben County Commissioners and Angola City Council members met with representatives from Univertical yesterday and last night to discuss solutions to enviromental problems at the former Dana Corporation site in...

Ind. Decisions - Federal district court sanctions city of Madison over strip-search

Posted on December 01, 2008
Brian Jones of the Madison Courier reported Saturday in a story that begins:The United States District Court has set sanctions against the city of Madison, former Mayor Al Huntington, former Madison Police Chief Robert Wolf, Madison City Councilman Jim Lee...

Environment - Who is responsible for cleanup costs?

Posted on December 01, 2008
From WKLI News:(ANGOLA) - The future of the Univertical plant in Angola is scheduled to be discussed during tonights Angola City Council meeting. The company is threatening to leave Angola for North Carolina if enviromental problems which go back to....

Courts - Still more on: U.S. seeks clarity on muddy Rapanos ruling

Posted on December 01, 2008
Apparently it isn't going to get it. Updating this earllier entry, Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSBlog writes today:The Supreme Court refused on Monday to reopen the issue of the kinds of wetlands that are protected from pollution discharges under the federal...

Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending Nov. 26, 2008

Posted on December 01, 2008
Here is the just issued transfer list for the week ending Nov. 26, 2008. It is one page. No transfers were granted last week. Over 4.5 years of Transfer Lists: For other weekly transfer lists (going back to Feb. 2,...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 0 today (and 2 NFP)

Posted on December 01, 2008
For publication opinions today (0): NFP civil opinions today (0): NFP criminal opinions today (2): Darvay Mashawn Sallee v. State of Indiana (NFP) Larry F. Anglin v. State of Indiana (NFP)...

Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit on service of process

Posted on December 01, 2008
In a 16-page Illinois decision today, U.S. v. Ligas, the panel splits 2-1 on the question of whether service of process was properly effectuated. Judge Sykes writes: Lawrence Ligas appeals the district court?s grant of summary judgment to the...

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