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Indiana Tech taps a Cooley dean to lead law school
Charles Cercone, associate dean of faculty and professor at Western Michigan University’s Thomas M. Cooley Law School, says the opportunity at Indiana’s newest law school is “simply unique.”
More than 3 dozen Indiana jurists retiring, leaving bench at year’s end
Five judges with a combined bench experience of more than a century are departing the Marion County courts at the end of the year, joining dozens of jurists around the state who are calling it a career.
Indiana Judges Association: The legal profession’s Top Ten list of legal quotes
Drawing upon Mr. David Letterman’s famous comic premise – the Top Ten List – we judges and lawyers would do well to take a similar look at our professional selves. So, for what it’s worth, see this judge’s Top Ten legal quotes, starting with No. 1 (and explanations). Of course, very few of them were said by lawyers.
Disciplinary Actions – 12/3/14
Read who has recently been publicly reprimanded by the Indiana Supreme Court.
Start Page: Tame your email inbox using flags, rules and search folders
I have a confession: I struggle to keep up with all the inputs in my life. Something is constantly seeking my attention – people, phone, texts, email and social media.
Hammerle on … ‘Whiplash,’ ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1’
Bob Hammerle says “Whiplash” is a startling movie with an Oscar-worthy screenplay that assaults your senses.
2014 DTCI Amicus Report
In 2014, the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana’s Amicus Committee participated in a number of interesting appeals, several of which have not yet been decided. The cases DTCI became involved in this year addressed a variety of evidentiary and other issues that are of interest to the defense bar.
Thomas Hays will lead DTCI as it embarks on new long-range plan
For nearly 37 years, Hays, a partner at Lewis Wagner LLP, has continued to enter courtrooms, building a solid reputation as a personal injury defense attorney. Now Hays is preparing to take on a new challenge. He is the incoming president of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana and will take office in January just as the organization is beginning to implement a new long-range plan.
Walgreen privacy judgment a ‘game-changer’
A $1.4 million judgment against Walgreen for a pharmacist’s unauthorized breach of private prescription data should raise red flags for any health care provider whose employees handle private medical information, lawyers and legal experts say.
ISBA seeks malpractice time-limit legislation
A proposal adopted by the Indiana State Bar Association's House of Delegates in October has yet to be formalized, but it recommends legislation that would limit malpractice liability for attorneys to two years after discovery of an error or not more than three years after the conclusion of representation.
Judicial officers in demand
Seven counties are asking the Legislature for 11 magistrates to handle increasing caseloads.
Justices weigh free speech rights, Facebook threats
The Supreme Court of the United States struggled Monday over where to draw the line between free speech and illegal threats in the digital age.
Opinions Dec. 1, 2014 ILD
Indiana Court of Appeals
Ritchie Hodges v. State of Indiana (NFP)
06A04-1406-PC-203
Post conviction. Affirms the denial of Hodges’s petition for post-conviction relief and the revocation of his community-corrections probation.
Tommy Grubb v. State of Indiana (NFP)
53A01-1404-CR-184
Criminal. Affirms the four and one-half-year habitual offender enhancement but remands with instructions to reduce Grubb’s sentence to one and one-half years on the underlying conviction for dissemination of matter harmful to minors, a Class D felony.
Anthony D. Goffinet v. State of Indiana (NFP)
82A01-1401-CR-31
Criminal. Affirms conviction and 115-year aggregate sentence for murder.
Opinions Dec. 1, 2014
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
United States of America v. William Boswell
13-3641
Appeals from the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division. Judge William T. Lawrence.
Criminal. Affirms conviction and 235-month sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of the Armed Career Criminal Act. The admission of evidence that Boswell had a gun tattoo on his neck was not an abuse of discretion because it served to impeach his testimony, and the sentence under the ACCA did not have to be alleged in the indictment.
Evidence of felon’s gun tattoo not error
A defendant who took the stand in his federal trial for felony firearm possession failed to convince the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Nov. 26 that the evidence of his gun tattoo should not have been admitted.
MCBA ‘saddened and disappointed’ by grand jury decision in Ferguson shooting
Saying the justice system has failed the African-American community, the Marion County Bar Association has denounced the Ferguson, Missouri, grand jury’s decision in the shooting death of an unarmed teenager.
Statements by insurance provider do not constitute defamation, COA rules
A surgery center’s defamation claim that an insurance provider was making false statements purposefully to harm the center’s business reputation was dismissed because the communication did not allege any misconduct in business practices or trade.
Otte to retire as S.D. bankruptcy judge
Judge Frank J. Otte will retire at the end of 2014 after 28 years on the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana.