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Ind. Decisions - Montgomery County paper's take on the Supreme Court's mandate ruling
Updating this ILB entry from yesterday, today we have The Paper of Montgomery County's report, written by community editor Barry Lewis, on the Supreme Court's decision Wednesday in the court employee salary case: In Re: Order for Mandate of Funds;...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 28, 2007 08:34 AM
Ind. Courts - "Hammond lawyer arrested for intoxication in court"
Sophia Voravong of the Lafayette Courier & Journal reports:An attorney and long-standing political figure in Hammond was arrested Thursday morning in Lafayette after officials say he showed up drunk, with a flask of whiskey in his suit pocket, to a...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 14, 2007 07:58 AM
Ind. Courts - More on "He was trying to put her over that railing"
Updating the report in a June 23rd ILB entry, Joe Gerrety of the Lafayette Journal & Courier reports today, in a story that begins:A rural Lafayette man accused of attacking a lawyer at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse after a civil...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 4, 2007 08:10 AM
Ind. Courts - "He was trying to put her over that railing"
Joe Gerrety reports in the Lafayette Courier & Press today, in a story that begins:A Lafayette man, apparently angry about a judge's ruling in a civil lawsuit, is accused of attacking a Fort Wayne attorney at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 23, 2007 10:13 AM
Ind. Courts - Teen Court at the Vanderburgh County Courthouse
This spring the ILB quoted from a Lafayette Journal & Courier story on a teen court in Tippecanoe County. Today Kate Braser of the Evansville Courier& Press writes about a teen court at the Vanderburgh County Courthouse. The story begins:About...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 19, 2006 10:49 AM
Ind. Courts - More on: Plea agreement for Tippecanoe ex-bailiff rejected
Updating this ILB entry from April 28th, the Lafayette Journal & Courier reports today that:DELPHI -- A former Tippecanoe County court bailiff was sentenced Thursday to house arrest and probation for padding her work hours. Kelly M. Davis, 31, a...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 12, 2006 10:30 AM
Ind. Courts - "Defendant's outburst interrupts trial"
Joe Gerrety of the Lafayette Journal & Courier reports today on a trial that began yesterday in Tippecanoe Superior Court 1. Some quotes:An emotional outburst by the defendant interrupted a murder trial Tuesday before the first witness took the stand....
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 9, 2006 07:48 AM
Ind. Courts - Tippecanoe County courthouse security still evolving
Two stories today in the Lafayette Journal & Courier on Tippecanoe courthouse security. The first reviews the courthouse bombing eight years ago. Some quotes:Eight years later, Tippecanoe County magistrate Norris Wang can still feel the humidity in the air, can...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 2, 2006 08:37 AM
Ind. Courts - Plea agreement for Tippecanoe ex-bailiff rejected
The Lafayette Journal & Courier reports today. The story begins:A judge has rejected a plea agreement involving a former Tippecanoe County court employee who was paid for more than 1,000 hours of overtime in 2003. Kelly M. Davis, 31, the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 28, 2006 10:14 AM
Ind. Courts - Teen Court at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse
"Dropping the gavel: Peers mete out punishment to teenage offenders" is the headline to this story by Jennifer Schaff in today's Lafayette Journal & Courier. Some quotes:It's 5:30 p.m. at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse, and while all other courtrooms are...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 19, 2006 07:45 AM
Ind. Courts - Former Tippecanoe County court bailiff pleads guilty to theft
Joe Gerrety of the Lafayette Journal & Courier reports today:A former Tippecanoe County court employee who was paid for more than 1,000 hours of overtime in 2003 has agreed to plead guilty to theft and pay the county $7,642 in...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 10, 2006 10:06 AM
Ind. Courts - Bailiff whose salary was the subject of a 2003 judicial mandate has resigned
"Councilors see charges as victory" is the headline to a story today by Joe Gerrety in the Lafayette Counral&Courier. Some quotes:Tippecanoe County Council members who were the first to blink in a standoff with a judge over his overtime budget...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 12, 2005 01:13 PM