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Ind. Courts - More on: South Bend Tribune review finds errors in Indiana court statistics
Posted on November 15, 2010Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 2, 2010, which is worth rereading, Alicia Gallegos of the South Bend Tribune had...
Ind. Courts - More on: "An auditor hired by the state Department of Toxicology is reviewing all of the department's drug test results from 2007-09 -- including those used for criminal convictions -- because of concerns about accuracy"
Posted on November 15, 2010Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 29th, Mark Alesia of the Indianapolis Star has another story today, headed "Blood-test audit...
Ind. Gov't. - More on: I&M lease fight cost city of Fort Wayne $1.2 million
Posted on November 15, 2010Fleshing out this Nov. 11th ILB entry quoting a Fort Wayne Journal Gazette story on legal and other expenses for...
Ind. Law - Ignition interlock devices in St Joe County
Posted on November 15, 2010The Sunday South Bend Tribune had two stories by Mary Kate Malone. The first is a long overview on use...
Ind. Courts - "State Supreme Court Justice, community members works to find new magistrate"
Posted on November 15, 2010Bridget Flynn reported in the Nov. 13th LaPorte Herald Argus in a story that began:LA PORTE ? The new magistrate...
Ind. Law - "We should avoid sending the signal (any more so than we already do) that we?re an intellectual backwater, hostile to progress, by deliberately injecting discriminatory language into our founding document"
Posted on November 15, 2010So writes Lafayette attorney and blogger Doug Masson this morning in Masson's Blog, reacting to a report of "another try...
Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending November 12, 2010
Posted on November 15, 2010Here is the Clerk's transfer list for the week ending November 12, 2010. It is one page (and 13...
Ind. Law - Attorney General Zoeller says policymakers should take a hard look at the costs and fiscal impact of capital punishment cases in Indiana
Posted on November 15, 2010That is from a news release issued late this afternoon by the AG's Office. MORE COMING...
Ind. Law - Attorney General Zoeller says policymakers should take a hard look at the costs and fiscal impact of capital punishment cases in Indiana [Updated]
Posted on November 15, 2010That is from a details news release issued late this afternoon by the AG's Office. The release also links to...
Ind. Courts - More on "Davis earns victory over 3-term judge: Scheibenberger?s tenure ends"
Posted on November 14, 2010Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 3rd, two stories this weekend on the topic:"Defeated judge files official complaint" from WANE...
Environment - More on: Proposed wood-fired boiler rule is preliminarily adopted by APCB
Posted on November 14, 2010Updating this ILB entry from Sept. 2, 2010, that reported on the preliminary adoption by the state Air Pollution Control...
Courts - "Florida judges may be on political hot seat"
Posted on November 14, 2010From the Palm Beach Post, a story by Jane Musgrave reporting:With little or no funding, several single-issue activist groups influenced...
Courts - Have you ever wondered whether to use "pleaded" or "pled"?
Posted on November 14, 2010The ILB has, and apparently so have many others, as Eugene Volokh discussed Nov.. 12 in his blog....
Courts - "Does Routinely Sampling DNA From Arrested Felons Violate The Fourth Amendment? "
Posted on November 14, 2010Sherry F. Colb, law prof at Cornell Law, writes Nov. 10, 2010 for Findlaw.com on the issue of routinely sampling...
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 8 today (and 15 NFP)
Posted on November 12, 2010For publication opinions today (8): In Leo Machine & Tool Inc., et al. v. Poe Volunteer Fire Dept. Inc., et...
Ind. Gov't. - "Deficit to rule state hearings on the budget"
Posted on November 12, 2010Niki Kelly has the report today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. The story begins:INDIANAPOLIS ? State budget hearings begin...
Courts - "OSHA Case May Break New Legal Ground"
Posted on November 12, 2010From The Blog of Legal Times, this post from Jenna Greene that begins:The business community is watching a potentially precedent-setting...
Ind. Gov't. - Wrecked police cars and parking meters in Indy
Posted on November 12, 2010Two interesting stories. "Wrecked cruisers cost city over $2.5M" is the headline to this WTHR13 story by Sandra Chapman that...
Ind. Gov't. - Continuing with "Porter County cannot leave RDA "
Posted on November 12, 2010Updating this ILB entry from April 17th, both the Gary Post Tribune and the NWI Times are reporting that the...
Law - "Why the lawyer job market is changing"
Posted on November 12, 2010IU Mauer Law School Professor William D. Henderson has an interesting article in this month's National Jurist that begins with...
Environment - "College Campuses Continue to Leave Coal Behind"
Posted on November 12, 2010A Reuter story by Joan Oleck, dated Nov. 11, 2010, surveys the issue. The story begins:With more than 60 campuses...
Environment - 15 years after they expired, IDEM issues draft permits for two NWI steel mills
Posted on November 12, 2010So reports Gitte Laasby in yesterday's Gary Post-Tribune in a story that begins:BURNS HARBOR -- After a 15-year delay, the...
Law - "Butler Professor Says FCPA Enforcement Is A ?Facade?"
Posted on November 12, 2010Yesterday's WSJ reported on "The Facade of FCPA Enforcement," by Mike Koehler, Butler University College of Business, a paper published...
Ind. Decisions - "Avon law to control groundwater invalid"
Posted on November 12, 2010That is the headline to this story this afternoon by the Indianapolis Star's Josh Duke, referencing this morning's COA decision...
Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court issues rare, flat-out disbarment
Posted on November 12, 2010The decision is In the Matter of William J. Rawls, a 7-page, 5-0 per curiam opinion. From the opinion:We find...
About this Blog - Law Prof Blog Traffic Rankings
Posted on November 11, 2010The TaxProf Blog ("A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network") has an entry ranking the 35 law professor blogs...
Courts - "Iowa Vote Shows the Injustice of Electing Judges"
Posted on November 11, 2010That is the headline to a long article by Adam Cohen in Time Magazine. Cohen appears to argue for the...
Ind. Gov't. - I&M lease fight cost city of Fort Wayne $1.2 million
Posted on November 11, 2010So reports Benjamin Lanka today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. Some quotes:FORT WAYNE ? Fort Wayne spent more than...
Ind. Decisions - "Justices weigh molester?s fate"
Posted on November 11, 2010The oral argument before the Supreme Court yesterday in the case of Elmer Baker v. State of Indiana (ILB background...
Ind. Law - More on: "Interviews indicated that no one involved in the Bisard investigation, sworn or civilian, knew about the March 12, 2010 law amendment"
Posted on November 11, 2010Updating this entry from the ILB posted late yesterday afternoon, today's Indianapolis Star has extensive coverage of the Bisard Report....
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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....








