From Inside Indiana Business online ‘Inside the Pleadings: NFL Lawsuit A Primer In Antitrust Concepts’
I recently authored this article on the legal issues of the NFL labor dispute for Inside Indiana Business. A preview is below. Visit the Inside Indiana Business web site for the full article. “I may be alone here, but I always get disappointed when sports reporters begin a piece on the NFL labor dispute with, “We will spare you the boring legal details…” Legal details boring? Hardly. In what other universe do Peyton Manning and Texas A&M linebacker…
Indiana Supreme Court: Court Address Sex Offender Registration, CHINS Determination, Criminal Rule 25
The Indiana Supreme Court opened the first two weeks of January with three opinions. In Hevner v. State, the Court addressed the claim “that the Indiana Sex Offender Registration Act . . . constitutes retroactive punishment forbidden by the Ex Post Facto Clause contained in the Indiana Constitution because it requires the defendant to register as a sex offender, when the Act contained no such requirement at the time the defendant committed the triggering offense.” In this case,…
Indiana Supreme Court: 5 Criminal Case Opinions in December
The Indiana Supreme Court issued five criminal case opinions in December. In Armfield v. State and Holly v. State, the Indiana Supreme Court “provide[d] the analytical framework” to resolve the issue “of when an officer has reasonable suspicion to initiate a traffic stop after a routine status check of a license plate reveals that the driver’s license of the registered owner of the vehicle is suspended.” In Armfield, the Court set forth the rule that “an officer has…
