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Discrimination cases rising

As people lose their jobs in a rough economy, it’s obvious that unemployment claims go up – and stay up – as it is more difficult to find new work.

ACLU conference, dinner open to all

The Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis will host the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana Student Conference that will focus on issues faced by students at the high school, college, and law school levels.

ISBA Business Law Section helps nonprofits

While many attorneys may want to do pro bono work, not all of them are comfortable taking on what could end up being a lengthy and possibly complicated family law case, which is the majority of cases the pro bono districts around the state tend to handle.

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Commission narrows Tax Court applicants

The Indiana Tax Court logo symbolizes what will remain the same next year, even though the only person who’s ever presided on that appellate bench will change for the first time since that court was created more than a quarter century ago.

5 vie for spot on judicial commissions

Openings on the Indiana Supreme Court and state Tax Court in recent months have put more focus on the selection process and what goes into choosing appellate jurists, leading to increased interest from the legal community about who has a voice in deciding nomination and other judicial qualifications issues.

Juvenile reform continues after ’09 summit

No follow-through. That was a complaint voiced by attendees of last year’s summit to discuss juvenile justice matters in Indiana about many similar conferences they’d attended before: there was no follow-through.

Valparaiso building restored to house Lawyering Skills Center

The inside of Heritage Hall, named for a music professor and one of the oldest buildings on the campus of Valparaiso University, has been redesigned as the law school’s Lawyering Skills Center and will soon welcome the Valparaiso University School of Law Clinical Program back to its old location.

Medicaid applicants facing ‘tremendous hurdles’?

When filing a claim for Medicaid disability benefits, the process sounds straightforward: Complete an application that includes all disabilities that would make the case that you deserve the benefits. If your application is deemed sufficient by a Medicaid Medical Review Team, you get the benefits. If not, you receive a one- or two-page letter that includes information about how you can appeal.

Judicial selection process has no formula

Selecting a new Indiana Supreme Court member is a transparent process until it reaches the governor, and then the action moves behind closed doors and the legal community is left holding its collective breath until learning who will be the state’s next justice.

Exclusive: DeLaney speaks about attack, civility

If he hadn’t become a lawyer nearly four decades ago, Indianapolis attorney Ed DeLaney knows that choice could have prevented the attack that he believed was going to end his life.

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Boone Circuit Judge Steven David to succeed retiring Justice Theodore R. Boehm

Judge Steven H. David said he would have been content staying in his job as Boone Circuit judge for the rest of his legal career. But he took a chance, overcoming an initial doubt that he should apply for an Indiana Supreme Court opening and ultimately rising to the top of 34 attorneys and judges to become the state’s 106th justice.

7 remain in running for Tax Court judge

In less than 30 minutes, the Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission cut in half the list of applicants to become the state’s second-ever Indiana Tax Court judge.

Opinions Sept. 27, 2010 ILD

Indiana Supreme Court had posted no opinions at IL deadline.

Indiana Court of Appeals
Brian P. White v. State of Indiana (NFP)
53A01-0910-CR-515
Criminal. Affirms conviction of and sentence for murder.

Cameron D. Reed v. State of Indiana (NFP)
47A04-1002-CR-109
Criminal. Affirms sentence following guilty plea to Class D felony possession of a schedule II controlled substance.

Indiana Tax Court had posted no opinions at IL deadline.

The Indiana Supreme Court granted four transfers and denied three for the week that ended Sept. 27.
 

Commission conducts first Tax Court judge interviews

The Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission is interviewing 14 people who’ve applied to be the state’s next Tax Court judge, narrowing down the list to semi-finalists who will return for second interviews in October.

Legal conclave discusses diversity, stress, ethics

Among the focuses for this year’s Indiana State Bar Association's fourth Legal Education Conclave conclave, which takes place every few years, were diversity, ethics, and stress among lawyers and law students.

Indiana co-authors amicus brief in Prop 8 case

Indiana is one of four states that have written an amicus brief asking the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a California judge’s ruling that would lift the ban on same-sex marriages.