The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has posted two new opinions online today: Trustmark v. Gen’l and Cologne (civil) Lozano, David v. Frank, Matthew (prisoner appeal) Judge Ann Claire Williams begins the Trustmark decision with this: Surely, if there is any moral to this story, it is to “get it in writing.” It is astounding […]
An FDA advisory panel has recommended approval of the diabetes drug Pargluva, made by Bristol-Myers Squibb, a company with a significant presence in southern Indiana. On Thursday, another advisory panel with some of the same members voted to recommend another diabetes treatment, Exubera, developed by Pfizer with Sanofi-Aventis and Nektar Therapeutics. The panel in Silver […]
On September 20th the Indiana Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in the case of Lise Garneau v. Charles E. Bush, Jr., M.D. in the Wynne Courtroom of the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. The hearing is scheduled to be before Hon. Paul D. Mathias, Hon. Terry A. Crone, and Hon. Michael […]
The Miami-Herald carries an Associated Press article headlined, “White, Dubois counties latest to seek switch to Central time.” Johnson County, however, will remain on eastern time. The Johnson County Daily Journal has an article headlined, “It’s official: County will be in Eastern time zone” and the Indy Channel has a report titled, “County’s Leaders Overwhelmingly […]
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Monday that an illegal immigrant, suffering from severe pain and diagnosed with acute leukemia, was entitled to Medicaid because he suffered from an emergency medical condition. The court overturned a lower court decision upholding the denial of Medicaid benefits to the illegal immigrant by finding that “the hearing officer’s determination […]
The Indiana Court of Appeals has posted its opinion in Thomas Magee v. Connie Garry-Magee, a property dispute arising from a decree of marriage dissolution. Meanwhile the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has posted five new opinions: Abdullahi, Halima v. City of Madison (civil) USA v. Havens, Patricia A (criminal) Marquez, Raymond v. Mineta, Norman […]
The US Senate Judiciary Committee will begin its confirmation hearings Monday for John Roberts, nominated by President Bush to serve as the 17th Chief Justice of the United States in the wake of the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist. The hearings will mark the first US Supreme Court confirmation hearing in 11 years since […]
Thomas Kemp of Kemplog reports on Delaware County’s response to concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. The post was prompted by a Muncie Star-Press article yesterday titled, “Delaware County lacks CAFO regulation.”
Robert Novak reports that President Bush “met secretly” with Judge Priscilla Owen last week. Novak also mentions Edith Jones (5th Circuit), Karen Williams (4th Circuit), and Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan as conservative women who may be under consideration to fill Justice O’Connor seat. Novak attributes the report about Judge Owen to “White House […]
“Judge sees small percentage of juveniles over and over,” reports Bette Nunn of the Martinsville Reporter-Times. Superior Court II Judge Christopher Burnham believes that there is a misconception about Morgan County having a big juvenile crime problem. “We don’t have a huge juvenile problem,” he said. “If we compare the number of juvenile delinquency cases […]
