Miscellaneous

Ind. Decisions - City of Hammond negotiating Mayes settlement
Susan Brown reports today in the NWI Times:HAMMOND | Five months after the city of Hammond asked a federal appeals court to overturn a $9 million judgment in the wrongful conviction lawsuit won by Larry Mayes, attorneys are expected to...

Got the blogging blues
Blogging can be great fun when you’ve got something to say and someone to say it to. My friends and family know that I love blogging. I like sharing info in (almost) real time with readers...

Ind. Decisions - "Court upholds firing of Hammond police sergeant"
The April 30th Court of Appeals NFP decision in the case of Timothy A Thomas v. City of Hammond was the subject of a story by Patrick Guinane yesterday in the NWI Times:The Indiana Court of Appeals has upheld the...

Ind. Decisions - "Murderer denied appeal could go free"
Joe Carlson reports in the NWI Times:HAMMOND | Convicted murderer Jermaine Dodd could go free from prison under a Hammond federal court order unless Indiana courts give him the appeal to which a judge has ruled Dodd is entitled under...

Ind. Courts - COA hears oral arguments in Hammond
Yesterday morning a panel of the Indiana Cuort of Appeals heard oral arguments in the case of Gladys E. Tobias vs. Margaret & Thomas Mannella in a courtroom in Hammond Indiana. (The case was listed in Monday's ILB "Oral arguments...

Jose Padilla and his mother sue John Yoo (former OLC lawyer)
I [now have read] the complaint, [and the blogosphere has been] hopping on news that Jose Padilla and his mother have sued John Yoo ( Orin Kerr and many others at Volokh and Duncan Hollis at Opinio Juris)...

Exploding iPod Touch
Mother of Injured Boy Sues Apple

Employee Theft
Mother and daughter ordered to pay $1 million settlement for writing false paychecks.

Labor and Delivery
Judge awards mother $6 million medical malpractice settlement after baby was born with brain injuries.

John Vermillion and Associates LLC et al.
allegedly misrepresented themselves as qualified financial advisers to sell living trusts and exploit senior citizens.

St. John Health
Agrees a $13.5 Million Settlement in Antitrust Class Action

John Hancock
$24 Million Settlement in Racial Discriminaton Class Action