The Chronicle Tribune of Grant County reports, “Local attorney to retire from NRC.” Marion attorney Mike Kiley announced his retirement Tuesday from the Indiana Natural Resources Commission, a post he’s had for the past 29 years. “It was time to give the position up,” he said. “There comes a time when you have to move […]
In Tuesday’s environmental law news, Judge Richard Webber of the US District Court of Eastern Missouri has ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to review its health standard for lead pollution in the air, and has ordered the agency to do so. The national standard for airborne lead is to be […]
The Authors Guild, an advocacy organization for published writers, together with a former Poet Laureate, a Lincoln biographer and a children’s book author, Tuesday sued search engine and advertising giant Google alleging “massive copyright infringement at the expense of the rights of individual writers.” The class action suit filed in federal court in Manhattan alleges […]
The Associated Press is reporting: Now available online are articles headlined “Reid Likely to Oppose Roberts’ Nomination” and “Sen. Boxer Writes Novel About Senate“. The New York Times reports, “Democratic Leader Intends to Vote Against Roberts.”
Maureen Hayden reports in today’s Courier & Press, “Lawsuit delay snarls claim to manuscript.” Vanderburgh County court officials hoping to get their chance at cracking a local version of the “da Vinci code” may be out of luck: A lawsuit over a manuscript purported to contain the scribblings of 15th century genius Leonardo da Vinci […]
US Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told the Senate Monday that he will vote for Judge John Roberts, nominated by President Bush as Chief Justice of the United States. Specter nonetheless acknowledged that Roberts had dodged some questions asked of him during the confirmation hearings and admitted, “Notwithstanding his answers […]
The Indianapolis Star reports today, “Advocates seek to revive proposed gay-bias ban.” The battle over a proposal to ban discrimination against gays in the workplace and housing market in Marion County is quietly heating up, nearly five months after local officials voted against the idea. … A proposal to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation […]
The Indiana Supreme Court released the following statement titled, “Indiana judicial system website selected as top court site in the nation.” The Indiana Judicial System website was selected as the number one court website in the nation at the ninth annual Court Technology Conference in Seattle, Washington, Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard announced today. The […]
The Associated Press reports, “Google to Put Copyright Laws to the Test.” Copyright laws written long before the digital age are about to be tested as Google Inc. attempts to scan millions of books and make their text fully searchable on the Internet. … To prevent the wholesale file-sharing that is plaguing the entertainment industry, […]
The Evansville Courier & Press carries an editorial today simply titled, “Time zones.” From the perspective of deep Southwestern Indiana, this time-zone situation doesn’t look half bad. That is, if the federal government allows it to go forward. With the passing of Friday’s federal deadline, at least eight Eastern time zone counties in the southern […]
