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Indiana Civil & Business Lawyer (Free subscription) | yesterday
As effective July 1 and continuing until the next General Assembly: COURT COSTS EFFECTIVE JULY 1ST,2008 THE CHANGE IS BASED ON INDIANA CODES.. ..THIS SECTION APPLIES TO ALL CIVIL, CRIMINAL, INFRACTION AND ORDINANCE VIOLATION ACTIONS: CASE TYPE CASE CLASS COSTS BREAK DOWN CODE 100% RECEIPTS CRIMINAL CRIMINAL FELONY FA,FB,FC,FD $164.00 $120.00 CRIMINAL MISDEMEANOR CM $164.00 $5.00 MISCELLANEOUS CRIMINAL...
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Indiana Civil & Business Lawyer (Free subscription) | yesterday
You do. Tthinkbeta.com's It’s Up to You: Trademark Infringement not Uncle’s Watch hits on something that I never seem to explain well: "So the bottom line, YOU have to police copyright, trademark, patent etc. infringement. Uncle has not, and will not, do it for you. Hank" You go to court, the court does not come to you. That means hiring lawyers. Who file papers with the court. This rule applies from...
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Family Lore (Free subscription) | yesterday
I don't normally advise upon the emotional side of divorce and relationship breakdown - I don't consider myself qualified to do so - but I thought I would recommend something that I have just come across: Elizabeth Buchan's top 10 books to comfort and console during a divorce , which appeared in the Guardian in 2006. I can attest that reading a good book can be extremely therapeutic, and I'm sure that...
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Indiana Civil & Business Lawyer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yet another departing employee draws litigation to the new employer. (For other, similar cases, just click on the "Trade Secrets" link below). This time Motorola sues a former employee taking a job with Apple. Who could not have seen this one coming? Information Week ran Motorola Sues Ex-Executive For Going To Apple : Motorola (NYSE: MOT ) filed a lawsuit in Illinois a couple days ago against a former...
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Indiana Civil & Business Lawyer (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Not a subject that comes through my office (but one can still hope), but one that is possible and becomes more possible with every new business arriving on the Internet. Nor do I usually suggest reading a long, scholarly blog post, but TRADE SECRETS AND THE ROME II REGULATION ON THE LAW APPLICABLE TO NON-CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS from The Trade Secrets Blog is both long and scholarly: Not the least important...
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Indiana Civil & Business Lawyer (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Valuing the closely-held business is a tough but important thing. When selling a small business, the question of the business' value comes into play. The business' value also becomes a key point when a member of the business exercises a right to sell their interest. Use Business Valuation Resources And More . . . to educate yourself on valuing a business: "ValuationResources.Com is a free resource...
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Indiana Civil & Business Lawyer (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Something from The Washington Post - Bill Would End FOIA Shield for Smithsonian : "The Smithsonian, created by Congress as a federal trust, was exempted from FOIA in two rulings in the mid-1990s. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decided FOIA would apply to the Smithsonian only if Congress changed the law to say so explicitly. Grassley said the legislation marks a major...
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Family Lore (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
The Times reports today a small victory in its on-going campaign against what it considers to be 'secrecy' in the family courts: "Details of private family court proceedings that led to a mother fleeing the country with her son after he was placed in foster care have been disclosed after legal action by The Times." Having read the report, I'm not sure what has been achieved by this victory, but no...
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Family Lore (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Further to this post back in February, the Telegraph reported yesterday that barrister and (former) Crown Court Recorder Lincoln Crawford "has been sentenced to 50 hours community service after he admitted breaching a restraining order imposed following a campaign of harassment against his ex-wife and her boyfriend" . The order was originally imposed after Crawford had allegedly followed his ex-wife...
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Family Lore (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Well, it didn't do her any good. Tricia Walsh-Smith, of 'YouTube divorce' fame (infamy') has lost her case . Not only did the court grant her husband the divorce, but it also ordered her to leave the New York apartment within a month (something that she railed against in the videos) and rejected her claim that the prenuptial agreement should be voided. Judge Harold Beeler found that Walsh-Smith had...
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Indiana Civil & Business Lawyer (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
How long must a landlord hold onto a tenant's property? Indiana has a statute on this: IC 32-31-4-2 Liability; abandoned property; court order allowing removal by landlord a) A landlord has no liability for loss or damage to a tenant's personal property if the tenant's personal property has been abandoned by the tenant. (b) For purposes of this section, a tenant's personal property is considered abandoned...
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Family Lore (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
I'm pleased to see that Islington Council has launched an appeal against the judgment that it has bullied and discriminated against Registrar Lilian Ladele, which I reported in this post . Let us hope that reason prevails and the appeal succeeds. Meanwhile, the Telegraph reports a similar case of a "Christian policeman" taking action against Norfolk Police for alleged harassment over his religious...
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Indiana Civil & Business Lawyer (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Give the federal government credit for providing easy access to the regulations for truck drivers on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration site. Drivers - as well as lawyers - might want to take a particular look at H ours-of-Service Logbook Examples - Revised August 2005 .
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Indiana Civil & Business Lawyer (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Washington Post article on qui tam case backlog for the DOJ sparks frenzy : Whistleblower Law Blog : "Today, Washington Post writer, Carrie Johnson put qui tam front and center in the minds of everyone around the country, with her newsworthy and in-depth front page article 'A Backlog Of Cases Alleging Fraud- Whistle-Blower Suits Languish at Justice' in the Washington Post today. I might add that this...
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Indiana Civil & Business Lawyer (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
The following came to me from The Indiana Lawyer : In Steven Peters v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. , No. 06-4290, the three-judge panel reversed and remanded the case involving a Family and Medical Leave Act claim. Steven Peters had worked for the pharmaceutical company since 2001 and worked from his home in Indianapolis, marketing products to doctors and healthcare professionals. He injured his neck and...
