The leading organization in support of Evansville-Vanderburgh County government consolidation, an organization on whose board I serve, has endorsed a proposal to put the issue on two ballots over a span of two years. The idea, first floated by Sen. Vaneeta Becker (R-50), quickly caught on as the popular proposal among the area’s legislative delegation. […]
Doug Masson has a nice list of Senate bills for the 2006 session that are now online.
Over the summer the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, the school I currently attend, made national headlines when a professor accused another professor of opposing his tenure because of conservative views. Prof. William Bradford claimed that his support of the Iraq War and his refusal to sign a letter in defense of Ward […]
Federal appellate judges Samuel Alito and Michael Luttig are reportedly at the top of President Bush’s list of possible US Supreme Court nominees to replace the withdrawn Harriet Miers as the President reconsiders the nomination at Camp David this weekend. Republicans have said Bush’s short list is similar to the one he reviewed before he […]
A telephone scam that attempts to gather personal information by claiming the person failed to report for jury duty has been reported by several courts around the country, the Supreme Court announced today. The reports note that the callers represent themselves as court employees, assert that the person has failed to report for jury duty, […]
Jackson Superior Judge Frank Guthrie, 57, a Democrat, has notified Gov. Mitch Daniels that he’ll resign after nearly 30 years on the bench, effective Dec. 3. The Jackson County Tribune has more, including speculation that possible replacements include Rodney Farrow, who serves as attorney for the Jackson County Board of Commissioners, and Jackson County Prosecutor […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article titled, “The ‘Wrong Kind of Indian?’” It is the most comprehensive and thorough piece yet on a bitter, public dispute among faculty at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. Among other things it features IndyLaw Net, a weblog I founded in August 2003.
A project to boost the efficiency of Indiana’s jury service will go online in January, allowing court administrators to reach a wider cross-section of society and avoid sending jury summons to the wrong addresses. The Associated Press reports: Currently, nearly half of the addresses used to call Hoosiers to jury duty are incorrect — a […]
The Indiana Supreme Court released its opinion in Aaron Reemer v. State of Indiana (pdf). We hold that expert witnesses or laboratory results are not required to prove the composi-tion of an over-the-counter or prescription drug when it is found in an unaltered state and its weight and contents are described in the required labeling.
The President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform has released the PowerPoint Presentation of its October 18 meeting, including simplified draft tax forms.
