May 26, 2009
Michael HoskinsThe Indiana Attorney General personally attended a civil racketeering court hearing this morning in Hammond, a rare in-person
appearance that comes in the civil case against a former East Chicago mayor and a top aide.
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May 21, 2009
Michael HoskinsLess than a week before a state civil racketeering trial was set to begin, a former East Chicago mayor and one of his closest
aides have waived their right to defend themselves before a jury in court.
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May 20, 2009
Michael HoskinsA federal jury returned a verdict that a major energy company violated clean-air rules at a coal-fired power plant along the
Ohio River in southeast Indiana.
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May 18, 2009
Michael HoskinsWhat began a decade ago and became known as the Sidewalk Six paving-for-votes scandal is now nearing an end as one of the
three remaining defendants in the civil racketeering case has settled with the state.
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May 12, 2009
Michael HoskinsA second clean-air violation trial is underway in Indianapolis about whether coal-fired power plant modifications triggered
a need for new pollution-control equipment at facilities in Indiana and Ohio.
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April 24, 2009
Jennifer NelsonA northern Indiana attorney who filed a lawsuit against Porter Memorial Hospital and its employees following her involuntary
detention has once again lost her battle to proceed using a pseudonym instead of her real name.
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April 10, 2009
Jennifer NelsonA former Hamilton County Sheriff's deputy is suing the county's sheriff for firing him last year because he refused
to be shocked by a Taser as part of a training session.
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April 10, 2009
Jennifer NelsonA restaurant owner from Illinois filed a federal lawsuit this week after a case of mistaken identity led to a three-day detention
in a Lake County jail in April 2007.
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March 30, 2009
Michael HoskinsThe first-ever federal death penalty trial for the Southern District of Indiana was set to start today, but a plea agreement
means a trial likely won't be happening at all for a man connected to a violent killing spree four years ago.
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March 27, 2009
Michael HoskinsA federal judge in Fort Wayne wants parties to start over and file new briefs in a challenge to the state's judicial canons,
on claims that the rules wrongfully restrict judicial candidates from filling out surveys about their views on issues they
might someday hear in court.
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March 26, 2009
Jennifer NelsonA magistrate judge has issued a protective order to preserve and maintain the confidentiality of certain documents in a lawsuit
filed by members of the Indiana National Guard against a contractor working in Iraq.
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March 26, 2009
IL StaffFour finalists have been named in a competition to design and execute new murals at the Birch Bayh Federal Building and United
States Courthouse in Indianapolis.
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March 23, 2009
Michael HoskinsThe nation's highest court has declined to take an Indiana case asking whether a prisoner suing under the Prison Litigation
Reform Act has the right to a jury trial on any debatable factual issue relating to a failure to exhaust administrative remedies.
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March 18, 2009
Jennifer NelsonThe Judicial Conference of the United States Tuesday adopted a revised Code of Conduct for judges and released its recommendations
for new federal judgeships.
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March 17, 2009
Michael HoskinsAn Indianapolis federal judge could be the next to take a spot on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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March 17, 2009
Michael HoskinsThe U.S. Department of Justice says an Indianapolis law firm wrongfully refused to re-employ a staff attorney who'd returned
from serving in Iraq as a member of the Indiana Army National Guard.
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February 27, 2009
Michael HoskinsAs a federal magistrate judge puts it, "All good things must come to an end."
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February 16, 2009
Michael HoskinsThe first half of the year is shaping up to be a time of high-profile trials for Indiana's federal courts.
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February 9, 2009
Jennifer MehalikA U.S. District judge is allowing certain State Farm insurance policy holders to proceed in a class action suit against the
company as a result of how the insurer handled roof claims following a 2006 hail storm in central Indiana.
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February 9, 2009
Rebecca BerfangerThe chair of the Department of Africana Studies and associate professor of history at Notre Dame University will speak to
children and the general public in a lecture titled "Forging the Children of the Sun: The Human Spirit and Jim Crow,"
a Black History Month program Feb. 20 at the Federal Courthouse in Indianapolis.
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February 4, 2009
Michael HoskinsA church-owned religious education program held on school grounds in Huntington County should be terminated because it violates
the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, a federal magistrate has ruled.
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February 4, 2009
Jennifer NelsonA Southern District magistrate judge has decided a letter between the city of Madison's mayor and city attorney isn't
protected by attorney-client privilege in a civil action seeking damages over strip searches of three women.
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January 28, 2009
Michael HoskinsThe foot or more of snow dumped on the southern two-thirds of Indiana hasn't stopped some attorneys from making it to
their offices today, but it has closed some courts around the state.
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January 26, 2009
Jennifer NelsonA Northern District magistrate judge has issued sanctions for the third time against Gary Community School Corp. for its lack
of cooperation in a suit involving a transgender student.
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January 21, 2009
Jennifer NelsonEli Lilly & Co. must produce documents related to the handling of a noose being found in an area its employees frequent
for discovery in a separate suit alleging discrimination in the company.
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Jack, I was only responding to bill's comment of tying everybody in government together. I agree with you though, it takes one bad apple to ruin the bunch.. As in any profession. What's truly unfair is when somebody violates someone's trust and takes complete advantage of someone
John’s comment is unfair. The majority of attorneys can be trusted. Unfortunately, all it takes is one greedy, unscrupulous, immoral attorney to jade the public.
In regards to bill's comment about trusting the cover meant. We can trust them about as much as we can trust attorneys'.
This is disturbing to learn...
Yikes!