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Ind. Decisions - Still more on: Supreme Court grants transfer with opinion, applying new Appellate Rule 14.1
The April 17th Indiana Supreme Court decision in the case of In Re: T.S.; Indiana Dept. of Child Services, LaPorte County v. LaPorte County CASA, et al, (ILB entry here, follow-up here), is the subject of a lengthy story today...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 30, 2009 08:34 AM
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
Ind. Courts - Marion County reportedly suspends bench warrants for delinquent parents
This ILB had this entry Tuesday, Feb. 3rd, thanks to a WTHR Ch. 13 story. Today Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star has this front-page story, headed "Marion County judges revise policy on use of bench warrants." Some quotes:More deadbeat...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on February 6, 2009 07:20 AM
Ind. Decisions - "Court upholds decision on records in girl's death"
Yesterday's Court of Appeals decision in the case of In the Matter of T.B., and Charity B. v. Indiana Newspapers, Inc. (see ILB summary here) is the subject of a story by Jon Murray today in the Indianapolis Star. Some...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 22, 2008 09:18 AM
Ind. Courts - Issue of trying youth in juvenile court or as an adult
Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star takes a long look today at the issue of trying youth in juvenile court or as an adult. He looks at four decisions made by Marion County juvenile court Judge Marilyn Moores, who has...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 30, 2008 02:15 PM
Ind. Courts - Transforming juvenile justice in Marion County
Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star has a lengthy story today that begins:Far fewer youths file into Marion County's juvenile lockup each day, a key result of a reform effort that has reduced crowding and diverted thousands of children into...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on May 27, 2008 09:29 AM
Ind. Courts - "If the public is to not only understand the procedures in place for protecting children from abuse and neglect, but also to influence change in those procedures when necessary, it must have information"
Near the end of 2007 the ILB had a number of entries, including this one from Dec. 24, 2007, involving Marion County juvenile court Judge Marilyn Moores' order to release of the juvenile court file and the much larger DCS...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 20, 2008 12:31 PM
Ind. Courts - Focus on party slates for Marion County judicial primary
Updating this ILB entry for Feb. 17, Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star today reports under the headline "Judicial primary is all-important: Changes to state law mean all who make it to general election will likely end up on bench."...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on February 23, 2008 08:00 AM
Ind. Courts - Yet more on: Marion County juvenile court orders release of the juvenile court file and the much larger DCS case file in TaJanay Bailey case
Updating four previous ILB entries headed "Marion County juvenile court orders release of the juvenile court file and the much larger DCS case file in TaJanay Bailey case" (dated Dec. 11, 9, 7 an6 6 - see ILB list here),...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 24, 2007 10:24 AM
Ind. Courts - Even more on: Marion County juvenile court orders release of the juvenile court file and the much larger DCS case file in TaJanay Bailey case
Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 9th, regarding Marion County juvenile court Judge Marilyn Moores' orders last week for the release of Department of Child Services and Marion County juvenile court records in the TaJanay Bailey's case, and her decision...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 11, 2007 06:40 AM
Ind. Courts - Still more on: Marion County juvenile court orders release of the juvenile court file and the much larger DCS case file in TaJanay Bailey case
Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 7th, regarding Marion County juvenile court Judge Marilyn Moores' orders last week for the release of Department of Child Services and Marion County juvenile court records in the TaJanay Bailey's case, today's Indianapolis Star...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 9, 2007 08:55 AM
Ind. Decisions - More on: Marion County juvenile court orders release of the juvenile court file and the much larger DCS case file in TaJanay Bailey case
Updating this entry from yesterday, the Indianapolis Star's Jon Murray reported last evening that:A Marion County juvenile court judge this afternoon released hundreds of pages from the Department of Child Services case file on TaJanay Bailey. * * * DCS...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 7, 2007 06:03 AM
Ind. Decisions - Marion County juvenile court orders release of the juvenile court file and the much larger DCS case file in TaJanay Bailey case
Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star reports today:About 1,500 pages from the state Department of Child Services case file on TaJanay Bailey are expected to be released this morning by Marion County juvenile court. The records could shed more light...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 6, 2007 01:20 PM
Ind. Courts - DOJ to investigate Marion County Juvenile Detention Center
The Indianapolis Star reports today, in a story by Richard D. Walton that begins:The U.S. Department of Justice will investigate the troubled Marion County Juvenile Detention Center, focusing on how the staff can prevent or investigate abuse and how detainees...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 24, 2006 08:26 AM
Indiana Courts - "Families belong under one roof"
"Families belong under one roof" is the headline to this editorial today in the Indianapolis Star. Some quotes:[A] judge would handle every matter related to a family. A child welfare or a delinquency case, for example, could be pulled off...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 7, 2006 07:26 AM
Ind. Courts - Marion County juvenile justice under Star review
The Indianapolis Star is in the second day of its three-day editorial series on on problems at the Marion County juvenile justice system. Here is its synopsis:• Sunday: Children are flooding into a Marion County juvenile justice system where rules...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 12, 2006 10:33 AM
Ind. Courts - Marion Circuit Court Judge Theodore M. Sosin replaces Judge Moores in surrogacy case involving twins
Kevin Corcoran of the Indianapolis Star reports this afternoon that:A new Marion County judge has been chosen to preside over the child welfare case involving twin infant girls born through surrogacy in April. Marion Circuit Court Judge Theodore M. Sosin,...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 28, 2005 02:53 PM
Ind. Decisions - Judge takes infant off life support
As reported by Tim Evans today in an above-the-fold, front-page story in the Indianapolis Star, Marion County Superior Court Judge Marilyn Moores yesterday "ordered life support removed Friday from a 5-month-old Indianapolis boy with a severe head injury that investigators...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 8, 2005 08:20 AM
Ind. Courts - More on Marion County Juvenile Court appointment
"New judge will have less power: Court officials spread out much of the control that juvenile court judge built up in 2 decades" is the headline to this story by Vic Ryckaert today in the Indianapolis Star. Some quotes:Marion County...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 15, 2005 06:46 AM
Ind. Courts - New Judge Moores to serve as the new juvenile court judge
Although it had earlier been reported that Governor Daniel's apointment to fill Judge Payne's vacancy on the Marion Superior Court would not necessarily sit as the juvenile court judge (that being up to the judges), as it turns out the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 14, 2005 03:25 PM
Ind. Courts - Governor Daniels fills vacant Marion County Superior Court position
The Indianapolis Star website is reporting:Marilyn Ann Moores has been appointed Marion Superior Court judge, Gov. Mitch Daniels announced today. Moores succeeds Jim Payne, who left the bench in January to become the director of the new state Department of...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 11, 2005 11:33 AM
Indiana Courts - Filling Judge Payne's seat on the Marion County Superior Court
The Indianapolis Star has this story today today headlined "5 nominated for judge's post: GOP offers candidates to fill the seat vacated by Judge Payne's move to child welfare job." The story reports that:There's no guarantee the new judge will...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on January 28, 2005 08:12 AM
Indiana Decisions - Impact of bingo rulemaking decision reflected in annual Dept. of Revenue report
"Scuttled changes to bingo law yield failure and success" is the headline to a story today by Steve Walsh today in the Gary Post-Tribune. [Remember that the Trib does not archive its stories.] Some quotes from the story:The scuttled rules...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 18, 2004 12:25 PM
Indiana Decisions - Update on Flawed Bingo Rules
The Indiana Law Blog last reported on August 11th that a trial court had thrown out new state bingo rules that required bingo halls to give more money to charity. The reason was that one of the steps in the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 15, 2004 07:54 AM
Indiana Decisions - Trial Court Decides Bingo Rulemaking Flawed [Updated]
"Rules to aid bingo charities are overturned" is the headline to this story today in the Indianapolis Star. For starters, some quotes from the story:Bingo halls across Indiana hit the jackpot Tuesday when a judge quashed new state regulations that...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 11, 2004 08:00 AM