Indiana Court Times

Reflections on Afghanistan

Editor’s Note: Marilyn Moores is our featured Judge in this issue’s SIDEBAR. At our request Judge Moores, who is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the Indiana National Guard, wrote this article on her recently completed tour of duty in Afghanistan. Taking a year off from the bench of the Marion County Superior Court Juvenile Division to [...]

Best Practices: Dealing with Inappropriate Written Materials

[Editor's Note: This is the fourth and final article in a series of articles from the Ethics and Professionalism Committee of the Indiana Judicial Conference. The author thanks and acknowledges the contributions of those who attended the session at the September 2010 Judicial Conference in Indianapolis and contributed to the “Best Practices” suggestions related [...]

Hon. Marilyn A. Moores

This is the seventeenth of our Court Times articles that highlight up close and personal a member of the Indiana Judiciary. Marion County Superior Court, Juvenile Division, Judge Marilyn A. Moores is our judge featured in this issue. She received her undergraduate degree from Indiana University and her law degree from Indiana University Robert [...]

ICLEO Students Thrive in Summer Internships

At the urging of Indiana Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard, the Indiana legislature approved funding for the Indiana Conference for Legal Education Opportunity (ICLEO) program in 1997 with the purpose of assisting minority, low-income or educationally disadvantaged college graduates pursuing law degrees in Indiana’s four law schools. Since its inception, the ICLEO program, administered [...]

On the Way to Something Better

On Jan. 11, 2012, Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard delivered his 25th and final State of the Judiciary address to a Joint Session of the Indiana General Assembly. An excerpted version follows. The State of the Judiciary was broadcast to a statewide audience over the Internet and on radio and television through Indiana Public [...]

Passing Lady Justice’s Scales (Not to mention her books and papers)

In the story Brigadoon, a mythical Scottish village appears for one day every hundred years. Indiana’s city and town courts may come into existence, or disappear, once every four years. Ind. Code § 33-35-1-1(a) permits a second or third class city or a town to establish or abolish a city or town court by ordinance every [...]

When Only the Best Will Do (Part Two)

Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part article by the author about hiring new employees. The first part appeared in the Court Times JULY/AUGUST issue. Ah, what a joy it is to write about hiring a good employee, rather than disciplining an employee for poor performance. Time spent hiring the right employee is [...]

2010 Trial Court Statistics

New filings in Indiana trial courts remain just below the two million mark. The number of newly filed cases is just one statistic available in the 1,782 page, multi-volume report, which includes everything from crucial information on court operations to interesting facts about the judicial branch. The report can be found online at http://courts.in.gov/admin/2865.htm. The Judicial [...]

JLAP Volunteer Awarded Recovery Advocate of the Year

Kimberly A. Jackson, Chair of the Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program (JLAP) Committee, received the Recovery Advocate of the Year Award. Jackson was honored for her dedication to JLAP and its mission to help lawyers and judges struggling with addiction and mental health, physical or age-related problems. The award was given by the Indiana [...]

Courts Organizations and ABA Approve New Model Time Standards for State Trial Courts

Time standards for trial courts in some form have been around since Lyndon Johnson was in the White House when the American Bar Association first adopted speedy trial standards for criminal cases. But a recent report has put them in the spotlight again. In August 2011, the Conference of Chief Justices, the Conference of State [...]