John Huldin and William Sweet: Opportunities, risks in a changing EPA enforcement universe
The memo boils down to a complete realignment of OECA’s mechanisms relying on a “compliance first” lodestar to shape all of its actions.
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Melissa A. Hamer: Water in Indiana: Rights, wells, and a thirst for regulation
Fast-forward to today, and the idea of just taking water because you can mostly has disappeared into a tangle of laws.
David McGimpsey and Andrew Rankin: Clean energy enters new era under Opportunity Zone Program
Under the OBBBA, the Opportunity Zone Program will see nuanced changes implemented on a rolling basis until Dec. 31.
Lauren Aguilar: Energy planning should balance reliability, affordability
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act accelerated the phaseout or termination of certain energy tax credits added by the Inflation Reduction Act.
Rodney R. Nordstrom: The future of automated justice: Could AI replace juries?
Ongoing experimentation with newer agenic and synthetic jurors needs to be further studied.
Lindsay A. Llewellyn: Lawyers can become first responders for financial distress
These signals appear in the ordinary course of legal work but require deliberate observation to detect.
Allison DeSantis: Indiana introduces stricter business filing rules to combat fraud
It’s essential for businesses operating within the state to take notice of these changes.
John R. Maley: Can you run out of time for challenging a void judgment?
The Supreme Court affirmed the decision that the “reasonable time” requirement applies and that relief was not sought within a reasonable time.
Dunn: Mitigating risk today requires ongoing risk governance
Last year presented organizations with a variety of new issues coupled with uncertainty. The year taught hard lessons and reinforced the critical need to adapt.
Schumann: Residential transfer reporting rule takes effect March 1
On Aug. 29, 2024, FinCEN published the rule with the start date for real estate transactions beginning March 1.
Hammond and Shublak: Ensuring our decisions bend toward the common good
While coastal cities may dismiss us as flyover, we continue to produce the residents, workers, soldiers, athletes and executives who make the world run.
Dreyer: Violence against judges leads to broad disorder
If judges are seen just like any other social adversary trying to fight others over an issue, then the public might be less likely to understand their true work as arbitrators and problem-solvers.
Jan. 30, 2026
Indiana Court of Appeals
Lloyd N. Jelks v. State of Indiana
No. 25A-CR-1971
Criminal. Appeal from the Marion Superior Court, Judge Amy M. Jones. Affirms Jelks’s conviction for refusal to provide identification information, a Class C misdemeanor. Holds the evidence was sufficient to prove Jelks knowingly or intentionally refused to identify himself to a law enforcement officer who had stopped him for an infraction, as required by Indiana Code § 34-28-5-3.5. Concludes the evidence showed Officer Reneski lawfully stopped Jelks for operating a vehicle with a fictitious license plate, repeatedly requested Jelks’s identification, and explained the consequences of refusal, yet Jelks persisted in refusing to provide his name, date of birth, address, or state identification despite possessing a valid Indiana identification card in his wallet. Further holds Jelks’s asserted belief that he was exercising constitutional rights was irrelevant to whether he knowingly or intentionally refused to identify himself under the statute. Accordingly, affirms the judgment and suspended sentence. Appellant’s attorneys: Talisha R. Griffin; Timothy J. Burns. Appellee’s attorneys: Office of the Indiana Attorney General.
Norris: Have you hugged your lobbyist today? They’re the experts.
With so many important issues being considered in such a condensed time frame, isn’t it comforting to know that a trained governmental affairs professional is watching your back?
Graham: The kind of goodwill no marketing budget can buy
Can your escrow account actually enhance your goodwill? Absolutely. There’s hidden value in how we handle our clients’ funds.
Wilson: Microsoft tips: Solving Word’s automatic numbering issues
One of the most frustrating parts of Microsoft Word is its automatic behavior control, or ABC, feature as it relates to numbering.
Mizzell: From relief to reckoning—bankruptcy trends to watch in 2026
Although it is probably surprising to most, the pandemic and the related inflation did not give rise to a huge explosion in bankruptcy filings.
Melissa Hamer: A year loaded with environmental regulatory changes
Between Supreme Court rewrites of familiar statutes, extended methane deadlines, and Indiana’s new stormwater and water-pipeline rules, our regulated community spent 2025 chasing certainty.
Blake Hartz: A look at the year when generative AI became ‘legal’
The problem many AI companies have encountered is that their enormous training datasets contain enormous amounts of copyrighted content.
Ashley Hart: Handling grief during the holidays
Grief is a Long Play LP all on its own. It’s an intense collection of our losses, amplified by the expectations of the season. Many times, it is not the Hallmark movie soundtrack that we had in mind.