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Ind. Gov't. - "As Stadiums Vanish, Their Debt Lives On" An eye-opening story today on the front page of the NY Times. And yes, Indianapolis is mentioned several times. This...

Ind. Decisions - Another interesting 7th Circuit opinion today This is a 9-page opinion in a Petition for a Writ of Mandamus to the ND Illinois, In re...

Ind. Courts - Hogsett's hearing set Here is the agenda for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Sept. 16, 2010. From Item I. Nominations:Kathleen M....

Ind. Gov't. - "Parking Meters Will Be a Cash Register That Never Stops Ringing for the Vendor" Over the years, the ILB has had a long list of entries on the privatization of parking meters in Chicago....

Courts - "Ohio's republican justices squawk over website" From the Columbus Dispatch's "Daily Briefing" blog, see this item posted by statehouse reporter James Nash. Ohio justices are elected,...

Environment - 2010 Indiana Environmental Statutes now available This is the 2010 edition of the annual publication, the Indiana Environmental Statutes, sponsored by the Environmental Law Section of...

Courts - "Kansas joins case to head off federal carbon regulation" This lengthy story appeared in the Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010 edition of the Wichita Kansas Eagle. Some quotes:Attorney General Steve...

Environment - "New Asian carp czar John Goss outlines approach" Tina Lam of the Detroit Free Press reports:The White House said today it has chosen John Goss, former director of...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 2 today (and 9 NFP) For publication opinions today (2): In Department of Waterworks v. Community School Corp., So. Hancock, a 21-page, 2-1 opinion (including...

Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit issues one Indiana ruling today In Brown v. Automotive Components Holdings (SD Ind., Judge Young), a 15-page opinion, Judge Sykes writes:Letecia Brown, an assembly-line...

Courts - "Appeals Court in Atlanta Again Rejects Racial Discrimination Claim" Here are a couple quotes from Adam Liptak's "Sidebar" column in the NY Times of Sept. 6, 2010:Last month, for...

Ind. Decisions - "Appeals court sides with lottery losers, says suit can proceed" Yesterday's COA decision in Jeff Koehlinger, et al. v. State Lottery Commission of Indiana (ILB summary here, 3rd case) is...

Ind. Law - More on: New Indpls Bar Ass'n PAC "insulate attorneys from donating directly to Marion County judicial candidates" [Updated] Re this ILB entry posted earlier this afternoon, a reader asks:Instead of giving equally to every judge on the ballot,...

Environment - "One of the state of Ohio's solutions -- transporting future manure to farm fields outside the watershed, including fields in Indiana -- has alarmed some Hoosiers in East Central Indiana." Updating this August 31 ILB entry headed "We don't need Ohio's environmental problems," this August 30th Muncie Star-Press article by...

Courts - "Barring Hunters From Jury Panel Violates 'Batson,' N.Y. Judge Finds" What about Indiana? Daniel Wise writes today in the New York Law Journal in a story that begins:The same U.S. Supreme Court precedent...