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Courts - "Attorney sues over comments posted on Kentucky.com"
The ILB has had a number of entires on impacts of and access to anonymous posts and comments, the most recent being a case of New Hampshire argued last week before their Supreme Court. The Lexington Herald-Leader has a story...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 12, 2009 10:36 AM
Courts - "Comment decision in New Hampshire high court’s hands"
Adding against to the ILB's list of entries on impacts of and access to anonymous posts and comments, Ashley Smith reported in the Nov. 5th Nashua NH Telegraph. Some quotes from the lengthy story:CONCORD – The New Hampshire Supreme Court...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 6, 2009 12:31 PM
Ind. Courts - More on "Clash of schools, blogs raises free-speech issues"
Updating this Oct. 17th ILB entry quoting an Indianapolis Star story that reported (and included a copy of the complaint) "Butler University is suing Jess Zimmerman, alleging libel and defamation," Andy Gammill reports today in the Star under the headline...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 28, 2009 10:59 AM
Courts - More on: "SCOTUS declines to set rule on drunk driving stops, letting stand a Virginia court ruling that police must actually see erratic driving – and not just rely on anonymous tips – to stop a suspected drunk driver"
Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 21st, the Washington Post today has this editorial, headed "'One free swerve': The Supreme Court lets stand a bad Virginia decision on drunken driving." This is the case where, as The Christian Science Monitor...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 27, 2009 09:05 AM
Law - More on "Harsh Words Die Hard on the Web": Students at Yale Law and Indiana University Feel Effects of Anonymous Attacks
Updating this ILB entry from Sept. 6, 2008, Edmund H. Mahony of the Hartford Connecticut Courant reports today in a lengthy story that begins:Two former Yale University law school students have quietly settled a high-profile lawsuit they brought against about...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 22, 2009 02:52 PM
Ind. Courts - "Clash of schools, blogs raises free-speech issues" [Updated]
Dan McFeely and Tom Spalding of the Indianapolis Star report today in a story about free speech in high school and college settings. The story begins:A college student and a high school teacher may have pushed the limits of cyber-commentary...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 17, 2009 10:07 AM
Ind. Gov't. - "State official linked to sex calls resigns"
Mark Alesia just posted this story in the Indianapolis Star website:Gary Wilfert, senior state steward of the Indiana Horse Racing Commission, resigned today after The Indianapolis Star inquired about what appeared to be calls to a phone sex service made...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 23, 2009 05:01 PM
Courts - Houston lawyer asks "several local media outlets to provide the names of readers and listeners who commented about his client online"
Adding to the ILB's list of entries on impacts of and access to annonmyous posts and comments, some quotes from this story by Mary Flood of the Houston Chronicle:A lawyer for Lucas Coe, charged in the death of 4-year-old Emma...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 6, 2009 09:42 PM
Courts - "Judge rules blogger's identity must be revealed"; differing viewpoints
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press site has this brief story:A blogger lost his bid to keep his identity secret after a judge in New York City ruled that a fashion model had established a legitimate defamation claim...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 19, 2009 10:04 AM
Courts - Impact of anonymous online newspaper reader comments on trials
This July 17th ILB entry is headed: "Venue changed in LaPorte County judge's case; 200 anonymous online newspaper reader comments entered in evidence." It came to mind this morning when I read Eugene Volokh's blog entry about a Tennessee murder...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 20, 2009 09:54 AM
Courts - Suit against Kentucky newspaper to reveal anonymous poster's identity
Jason Riley has this story today in the Louisville Courier Journal, under the headline "EKU student sues over anonymous post." Some quotes:The anonymous post appeared online Aug. 13, 2008, under a Richmond Register story, headlined, “You can buy it at...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 2, 2009 09:58 AM
Law - "In many ways, Dawn Johnsen is a typical Bloomington mom. So why has her nomination to a Justice post sparked such outrage?"
Laura Lane of the Bloomington Herald-Times ($$$) takes a long look today at Bloomington's Dawn Johnsen, who is President Obama's nominee to head the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel. The very long story begins:Conservatives who oppose Indiana University law professor...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 5, 2009 02:06 PM
Ind. Law - More on "Key to safe-haven law is spreading the word"
This ILB entry from June 26, 2008, headed "Key to safe-haven law is spreading the word," quotes from Lesley Stedman Weidenbener's report on Indiana's Safe Haven Law:Since Indiana enacted the law, the National Safe Haven Alliance has recorded six lives...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on February 8, 2009 09:05 AM
Courts - "Court weighs whether to identify authors of critical and anonymous postings on the Internet"
Recalling these earlier ILB entries:"Harsh Words Die Hard on the Web": Students at Yale Law and Indiana University Feel Effects of Anonymous Attacks - Sept. 6, 2008 "Two Indiana newspapers fight anonymous poster identity subpoenas" - Sept. 22, 2008Tricia Bishop...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 29, 2008 09:54 AM
Ind. Courts - "Newspapers fight anonymous poster identity subpoenas"
This story from the Sept. 11th edition of The Indiana Publisher, published by the Hoosier State Press Association:Two Indiana newspapers are fighting subpoenas asking them to reveal the identities of anonymous posters to Web forums hosted by the newspapers...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 22, 2008 02:46 PM
Law - "Harsh Words Die Hard on the Web": Students at Yale Law and Indiana University Feel Effects of Anonymous Attacks
First, the Yale Law back-story: In a lengthy March 7, 2007 front-page Washington Post article, Ellen Nakashima reported:She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, has published in top legal journals and completed internships at leading institutions in her field. So when the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 6, 2008 07:26 AM
Ind. Law - Continuing with: Do the changes to the sex offender law mean longtime homeowners must move?
Following up on this ILB entry from Aug. 19th, re three John Doe cases in Tippecanoe County, and this one from Nov. 29th headed "Georgia's top court overturned a state law Wednesday that banned registered sex offenders from living within...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 18, 2007 11:37 AM
Ind. Decisions - "Coach was 'just flirting,' defense says"
The verdict is in in the trial of "Matthew Hensley, the former coach charged with trolling the Web for sex with young girls," according to a description in the NWI Times quoted in this July 11th ILB entry. Yesterday Joe...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 15, 2007 09:31 AM
Not Law but Interesting - College students succeed in the new media world
But it was their own initiative that made it happen. Two stories, one from each coast: From the LA Times, a front-page story by Jim Puzzanghera headed "The political guru wore tennis shoes: A recently graduated college student who made...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 17, 2007 07:58 PM
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 6 today (and 15 NFP)
For publication opinions today (6): In Emma McPeek, et al. v. Charles McCardle , an 8-page opinion, Chief Judge Baker writes:Appellants-plaintiffs Emma McPeek, Carroll VanTyle, and Brenda Allen (collectively, the Children) appeal from the trial court’s dismissal of their complaint...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on May 17, 2007 12:47 PM
Courts - Newspaper appeals $7 million libel verdict awarded to Illinois chief justice
The Chicago Sun-Times reports today: Attorneys representing the Kane County Chronicle have filed an appeal of the $7 million libel verdict awarded to state Supreme Court Justice Bob Thomas. The appeal challenges both the amount awarded to Thomas and the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on January 16, 2007 08:19 AM
Ind. Gov't. - Wish you were someplace else?
Dan Shaw of the Lafayette Journal&Courier reports:When the recently elected Tippecanoe County assessor posted complaints about other county officials on MySpace.com, she thought only her friends could read them. But just how private can anything on the Internet be? Samantha...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 29, 2006 01:48 PM
Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court posts two attorney disciplinary actions
In the Matter of Daniel B. Stephens is a 3-page per curiam decision:Today, we admonish respondent for his attempt to circumvent the limitation on attorney fees that can be charged for recoveries from the Patient Compensation Fund. This case is...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 11, 2006 02:14 PM
Ind. Decisions - More on: Ruling stands in favor of Clinton mayor, against newspaper [Updated]
The Indianapolis Star has posted an AP story containing a few more details on the Not for Publication 10/28/05 Court of Appeals decision in the case of The Daily Clintonian, George B. Carey, and Concerned Citizens. The Supreme Court...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 24, 2006 07:02 PM
Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals decides one today
In Phillip W. & Anita B. Richardson v. State of Indiana, a 21-page opinion (with a dissent by Judge Najam beginning on p. 16), Judge Bailey writes:The Richardsons raise two issues on interlocutory appeal, which we restate as whether the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 12, 2006 10:24 AM
Ind. Courts - Lake County attorneys rate judges
The Indiana Lawyer reports today on Lake County judges, in a story by Ron Browning. Some quotes:A survey of Lake County attorneys named Magistrate Michael N. Pagano the best jurist in the four county courts. The magistrate in County Division...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 26, 2006 01:13 PM
Ind. Decisions - Two cases decided today by Supreme Court
Posted late this afternoon: In Donna M. Schriber v. Anonymous, a 6-page opinion, Justice Dickson writes:The plaintiff in this medical malpractice action seeks appellate review of a trial court or-der that found the defendant to be a qualified healthcare provider...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 18, 2006 05:58 PM
Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court posts one late yesterday, another today
In In the Matter of Anonymous, a 2-page per curiam opinion, the Court writes:We require out-of-state attorneys who seek to appear in an Indiana court to file a motion for admission pro hac vice with the court, and within thirty...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 13, 2006 10:04 AM
Ind. Law - 7th Circuit issues decision on pleading of unauthorized interception, and on anonymous suits
In Jane Doe v. Jason Smith, an appeal from the CD Ill. decided today, Judge Easterbrook writes:When she was 16, Jane Doe (not her real name) engaged in consensual sexual relations with Jason Smith, who was a year older....
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 21, 2005 01:27 PM
Law - Patients vs. Doctors, Online and in Court
The free Wall Street Journal has a story today titled: "As Angry Patients Vent Online, Doctors Sue to Silence Them." It begins:Doctors have long accepted that their patients share opinions about the care they have received, knowing that satisfied patients...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 14, 2005 08:44 AM
Courts - Judges on the hot seat
"It's The Law, Not the Judge: But These Days the Bench Is the Hot Seat," is the headline to a piece by Jeffrey Rosen in the Sunday Washington Post's Outlook section. It begins:The response to the rulings in Terri Schiavo's...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 27, 2005 08:23 AM
Environment - Several stories today involving neighboring states
"Sewage sludge may be shipped to W. Kentucky" is the headline to a story today in the Louisville Courier Journal. The report begins:Nashville's partially treated sewage sludge, which has raised a stink in Tennessee because of strong odors, may be...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 19, 2005 08:12 PM
Indiana Decisions - Supreme Court posts one
In the Matter of Anonymous (12/23/04 IndSCt) [Attorney Disciplinary] Per Curiam In this attorney discipline case, the Disciplinary Commission has charged the respondent lawyer with communicating about the subject of a representation with a party the lawyer knew was represented...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 23, 2004 04:48 PM
Indiana Decisions - 13 Court of Appeals Decisions Today
Kenneth Reed, et al. v. Munster Plan Commissioner & Town Council (6/29/04 IndCtApp) [Civil Procedure] Baker, Judge[The Reeds appeal the trial court’s order dismissing the Reeds’ claims against appellees for lack of standing with regards to a zoning challenge.] Specifically,...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 29, 2004 01:57 PM
Indiana Decisions - Six new opinions posted by the Court of Appeals today
Illinois Farmers Insurance Company v. Gerry & Linda Wiegand, et al. (5/17/04 IndCtApp) [Insurance] Sharpnack, JudgeIn summary, we hold that the trial court did not err by granting Insurer’s motion for partial summary judgment and finding that the ATV is...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on May 17, 2004 02:07 PM
Law- Ramifications of Juror Identification in Tyco Trial; and More
The identification in the press of "Juror #4" during the course of the Tyco led to threats sent to her home and ultimately, a mistrial. As a result, as reported here by the NY Times on Thursday:The judge presiding over...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 17, 2004 10:17 AM