WHAT ABOUT ROY?

AN UPDATE AND A CORRECTION As I write these words on December 13, 2017, Roy Moore has lost his bid to become the junior Senator from the State of Alabama. There will be no test in the Senate of my musings over the exclusion and expulsion options at Article I Sec. 5 of the Constitution. […]

THE ROBERT NEARY UPDATE

The name of former LaPorte County Deputy Prosecutor Robert Neary has received considerable attention, all negative, from the CLB. On this sixth day of November, 2017 there came an end to Neary’s disciplinary case commenced December 17, 2015. He will be suspended beginning December 18, 2017 for four years without automatic reinstatement. It is likely […]

SHUT IT DOWN: THE INVALIDITY OF MUNICIPAL CODE VIOLATION NOTICES

Small Claims Court has a duly authorized (Small Claims Rule 2) dual-purpose form which is a Notice of Claim (Complaint) on one side and a Summons/Return of Summons on the other. For State law traffic infractions plus municipal code violations¹ (traffic or not) IC 9-30-3-6(c) provides another convenient hybrid complaint and summons for the commencement […]