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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Ind. Courts - Judge Van Bokkelen gets first slate of cases on docket
From today's Gary Post-Tribune:
HAMMOND -- Insurance companies suing businesses and businesses suing insurance companies. A family in Ogden Dunes suing the town for raiding their house. Another family suing the city of Gary for shooting their teenage son dead.All of them will share space on the docket of newly appointed U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Van Bokkelen, the former U.S. attorney who made his reputation on more colorful cases involving political corruption, drug dealing and other high-profile prosecutions.
All told, judges in the Northern District handed off 45 cases to Van Bokkelen, who begins hearing cases this week.
Van Bokkelen has said he will recuse himself from cases brought by the U.S. attorney's office that were filed or in the pipeline during his six-year term as head of the Northern District.
His courtroom will be in the current special proceedings courtroom. The judge Van Bokkelen is replacing, Rudy Lozano, has taken senior status and will continue hearing cases in his fourth-floor courtroom.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 31, 2007 08:26 AM
Posted to Indiana Courts