Indiana

The "Drug Court" Conundrum
Drug courts, gun courts, domestic violence courts.  Somebody got it in their head a while back that this was a good idea.  New York's District Attorney Association thinks so, and has called for an expansion of drug courts...

A religious pitch for drug courts
This new paper posted at SSRN, titled "An Argument for Providing Drug Courts in All Alabama Counties Based on Judeo-Christian Ethics," provides a religious pitch for drug courts. Here is the abstract: A drug court is an alternative process in...

Preeminence of Delaware Courts for Business Litigation Highlighted
In the most recent edition of the ABA's Business Law Today publication, Vice Chancellor Donald F. Parsons, Jr., of the Delaware Court of Chancery, and Judge Joseph R. Slights, III, of the Delaware Superior Court review the history and development of the Delaware courts as the leading business courts in the country...

Delaware and Responsibility for the Current Financial Turmoil
Marcia Coyle from the National Law Journal has written a nice piece,  Delaware in the Crosshairs, an examination of the responsibility of Delaware and its courts for the current crisis in the financial markets...

Delaware Innovates, Agains
Delaware will test its new law that gives its courts jurisdiction to respond to inquiries from the SEC on what Delaware corporate law provides. The SEC, in Rule 18-A8, allows firms to deny ballot space to shareholder resolutions that are...

Drug Court Dispute
Who doesn't love a drug court? With a few exceptions, drug courts are the darlings of the judges and prosecutors who run them. Scads of warm and fuzzy success stories can't be wrong, can they? In Macomb County, Michigan, the police department was concerned with the local drug court sentencing...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Mitchell Report Summary
Report on Steroid Drug Use in Major League Baseball by Senator George Mitchell

Drug Manufacturer Rebates
Caremark Corp. agrees to pay $38.5 million settlement after convincing doctors to switch drug brands.

Football-Related Dementia and Workers' Compensation
Football-Related Dementia Is the NFL Liable?

Contract Extortion
County Executive Robert Janiszewski ordered to pay Hudson County a $650,000 racketeering settlement.

FDA Issues Warning Regarding Topical Ibuprofen Drug Products
Topical Ibuprofen Drug Products FDA Issues Warning Letters

VA Sets New Benefit Rules for Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses
Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses VA Sets New Benefit Rules

NCAA Sued for Conspiracy and Anti-competitive Practices Related to Athletic Scholarships
NCAA Sued for Conspiracy and Anti-competitive Practices Related to Athletic Scholarships