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Ind. Law - "Doctors look to track, review peers' surgery files"

Posted on September 22, 2008
This ILB entry from Sept. 6th quoted a story from Amanda Iacone of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette that began:Allen County commissioners expected to review proposed standards for all doctors performing outpatient surgeries but learned Friday the measure addresses only...

Ind. Decisions - Upcoming oral arguments this week

Posted on September 22, 2008
This week's oral arguments before the Supreme Court: This Tuesday, Sept. 23rd: 9:30 AM - Dreaded Inc. v. St. Paul Guardian Ins. Co. - Dreaded, Inc. filed a complaint against St. Paul Guardian Insurance Company to recover defense costs Dreaded...

Ind. Law - Still more on: Hoosiers may apply for gun permits online

Posted on September 21, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from July 2nd, where the ILB noted:Instead of going to storefronts that advertise "Gun Permits Typed While You Wait," it appears that the procedure, when implemented in a county, will allow applicants to complete that step...

Ind. Courts - New federal judge, William Lawrence, feted in Mooresville

Posted on September 21, 2008
Nick McLain reported Sept. 20th in a long story in the Mooresville-Decatur Times that begins:Maybe they put something in the water here. For some reason, the community of Mooresville knows how to raise federal judges. A native son, William Lawrence,....

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Courts - Iowa Supreme Court "upholds 2,000-foot rule against sex offender"

Posted on September 21, 2008
The Cedar Rapids Iowa Gazette reported Sept. 20th:DES MOINES - The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a sex offender was not discriminated against when he was charged with violating a residency rule that he claimed was not in...

Law - One of the "retirement states" grants reciprocity, kind of

Posted on September 21, 2008
From the Sept. 18th Arizona Republic, a story by Craig Harris:After a nearly two-year wait, a Phoenix attorney has persuaded the Arizona Supreme Court to make it easier for lawyers outside the state to practice law here. Timothy Burr said...

Ind. Courts - Still more on: The first "help desk" -- for the newfangled "book"

Posted on September 21, 2008
The "mainstream media" has just picked up on the "Big Monk" YouTube video, first noted in the ILB on Sept. 13th (with link) and again on Sept. 15th. From today's Political Notebook column in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:A new...

Ind. Decisions - Court grants transfer in three cases

Posted on September 20, 2008
The formal transfer list should follow early Monday, but the ILB has received advance notice of three cases granted transfer at the Court's conference Thursday, Sept. 18th: Todd A. Clark v. Michelle Clark - Lambert-related; see the ILB summary of...

Ind. Courts - 7th Circuit panel at IUPUI next Tuesday

Posted on September 19, 2008
From IUPUI:On Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments for three cases during sessions in the Wynne Courtroom of the IU School of Law-Indianapolis (Inlow Hall), 530 W. New York St. The cases...

Ind. Courts - "Man arrested after attack on lawyer in Jefferson County Courthouse"

Posted on September 19, 2008
Brian Jones, writing for the Madison Courier, reports today:A Madison man was arrested on a charge of battery Wednesday afternoon after allegedly assaulting his attorney on the first floor of the Jefferson County Courthouse. Benjamin Dale Linville, 33, who gained...

Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court issues disciplinary ruling

Posted on September 19, 2008
In In the Matter of Kimberly O. Powell, a 5-page, Per Curiam opinion, the Cuort writes:Respondent's misconduct includes failing to take action in cases; failing to keep clients informed about the status of their cases; failing to respond to clients'....

Courts - Similarities between the 9th Circuit Immigration decision this week, and the Voter ID decision

Posted on September 19, 2008
One view: They were both failed facial challenges to statutes. Discussion of the 9th Circuit's ruling in Chicanos Por La Causa v. Napolitano is here, from yesterday morning. From the story quoted in the Yuma Sun:Still, the court noted that...

Ind. Gov't. - More on: Indiana OKs $8.5 million payout to some state workers

Posted on September 19, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from August 19th, that concluded:Who is in the class? No easy answers. It is a subset of the people who worked 40 hours a week during the period from 1973 to 1993, those in a split...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 5 today (and 19 NFP)

Posted on September 19, 2008
For publication opinions today (5): In Armand Murat v. South Bend Lodge No. 235 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the Unites States of America, et al. , a 9-page opinion, Judge May writes:Armand Murat sought to...

Courts - More on: Kentucky appeals court rejects adoption by lesbian couple

Posted on September 19, 2008
Following up on this ILB entry from Sept. 16th on the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruling this week that held, to quote the LCJ story from that date: "the court said that stepparent adoptions are allowed only when the stepmother...

Ind. Courts - The COA judges "were all over the facts?

Posted on September 19, 2008
Yesterday's oral arguments in the case of Caesar's Riverboat Casino vs. Genevieve M. Kephart, heard in Anderson by a panel made up of Judges Darden, Mathias and Crone, was the subject of a story in the Louisville Courier Journal that...

Ind. Courts - More on "Geist lawyers backing out"

Posted on September 19, 2008
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, today John Tuohy of the Indianapolis Star reports:FISHERS, Ind. -- Town officials on Thursday defended the amount they've spent in the long fight to annex Geist homeowners, even as both sides braced for a courtroom showdown...

Courts - "Suits, Legislation Over a Civil Right to Counsel Grow Across U.S."

Posted on September 19, 2008
Tresa Baldas of The National Law Journal reports today in a story that begins:Through litigation and legislation, a growing number of private and public interest lawyers across the country are pushing to secure those with low incomes the right to...

Ind. Law - "Golf carts a cheaper, but illegal, way to get around small towns"

Posted on September 19, 2008
So wrote Laura Lane yesterday in the Bloomington Herald-Times. Some quotes from the excellent story ($$):WORTHINGTON ? Hal Harp is a law-abiding town council president in his town of 1,452. But when he considers the state law that keeps his...

Ind. Decisions - - Court of Appeals issues 3 today (and 8 NFP)

Posted on September 18, 2008
For publication opinions today (3): In In the Matter of the Estate of Lawrence W. Inlow; Anita Inlow v. Jason L. Inlow, Heather N. Johnson, et al. , a 12-page, 2-1 opinion, Judge Vaidik writes:Following Indianapolis attorney Lawrence W. Inlow?s...

Ind. Courts - Judge Stephen M. Jessup, Howard Superior Court 2, admonished

Posted on September 18, 2008
From the Indiana Courts, this release:The Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications issued today a Public Admonition of Judge Stephen M. Jessup, Howard Superior Court 2. The Commission is a seven-member body comprised of the Chief Justice of Indiana, three lawyers...

Courts -- "Law & Mortar: An examination of a courthouse building boom"

Posted on September 18, 2008
This is a series by the Lexington Herald-Leader. Thanks to the Kentucky Law Blog for the link. The first story, by Linda Blackford, was last Sunday, with the preface:In 1998, the Kentucky State Supreme Court's new chief justice, Joseph E....

Ind. Courts - "Helping voters judge the judges"

Posted on September 18, 2008
From an editorial today in the South Bend Tribune:The St. Joseph County Bar Association is undertaking an effort that ought to be an aid to voters in making wise decisions. We welcome it wholeheartedly. There has been renewed interest for...

Courts - WSJ column surveys jury duty

Posted on September 18, 2008
Some quotes from the lengthy article today by Nathan Koppel:Jury duty is like the speed limit: We know we're supposed to honor it, but we try to skirt it anyway. Businesspeople and professionals are some of the worst offenders, believing...

Courts - SCOTUS Is Now Guiding Fewer Nations

Posted on September 18, 2008
So writes NY Times legal columnist Adam Liptak today in his continuing series, American Exception. Some quotes:WASHINGTON ? Judges around the world have long looked to the decisions of the United States Supreme Court for guidance, citing and often following...

Ind. Decisions - "Supreme Court backs sewer-bill transfer: Owners get tenants' past-due accounts"

Posted on September 18, 2008
Yesterday's Supreme Court opinion in the case of Pinnacle Properties Development Group, LLC v.City of Jeffersonville, Indiana (see ILB entry here) is the subject of a story today in the Louisville Courier Journal reported by Lesley Stedman Weidenbener...

Ind. Law - Virginia O'Leary, Indiana civil rights lawyer, dies

Posted on September 18, 2008
Lindsey Ziliak reports today in the Evansville Courier & Press:Virginia O'Leary broke the proverbial glass ceiling in her pursuit of providing equality in the work force to others. O'Leary, who died Tuesday, was a civil rights lawyer in Oakland City,...

Ind. Courts - Allen Court tickets phone-ban violators

Posted on September 18, 2008
Rebecca S. Green reports today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:If you bring a cell phone or other electronic device ? and you haven?t noticed the 19-month-old ban ? into the Allen County Courthouse, you might get a ticket. And...

Courts - 9th Circuit upholds Arizona immigration law imposing employer sanctions

Posted on September 18, 2008
Jim Small of the Arizona Capitol Times reports, in a story that begins:A federal appeals court has upheld Arizona's employer sanctions law, which penalizes businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants and requires them to verify the employment status of their...

Ind. Courts - Judge George B. Hoffman, Jr. has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Legendary Lawyer Award

Posted on September 17, 2008
Via a press release from the Indiana Courts:Judge George B. Hoffman, Jr. has been selected by the Fellows of the Indiana Bar Foundation as the recipient of the 2008 Legendary Lawyer Award. A practicing attorney for 57 years, Judge Hoffman...

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