“Woman Beaten By Husband Wins Suit” was the headline of an MSNBC article, reporting on a $550,000 actual and punitive damage award to a domestic violence victim.Read More

Two More State Supreme Courts Uphold Grandparent Visitation Laws – Despite the Supreme Court’s Holding that They Can Be Unconstitutional is an online article by Joanna Grossman posted yesterday. In it she digests the recent Utah and Pennsylvania cases upholding grandparent visitation along with links to them, to Troxel and to other post-Troxel cases “Importantly,...Read More

The Kentucky committee reviewing dependency, abuse, neglect and quick trigger adoptions met last week. If you read the Courier Journal report and the Lexington Herald-Leader story, they hardly seem to be covering the same meeting.Read More

In written remarks accepting the Indiana Judges Association Award for reporting on the judiciary, Marcia Oddi gave a hint of things to come at the Indiana Law Blog. “What about the future? I could go on and on, but here is something of particular interest to this audience — I’d like to post more trial...Read More

Don’t like or understand RSS feeds? (icon at upper right) Don’t like or want FeedBlitz (email subscription on upper right) for each blog to which you subscribe? I love RSS feeds, so I have no interest in monkeying with this, but The Simply Headlines sounds promising. “SimplyHeadlines is a once a day email newspaper. You...Read More

Pauline Tesler and Peggy Thompson, the dynamic presenters who are coming to Louisville November 1, 2006 to teach an advanced interdisciplinary collaborative divorce program, appeared on the PBS show last night, Kids & Divorce: For Better or Worse. Their book released this year, Collaborative DivorceRead More

Kudos to Oldham County Attorney John Fendley was honored as Kentucky’s top child support contracting official for the fourth consecutive year. The state government press release is reprinted below in its entirety. Thanks to Mike Stevens of the Kentucky Law Blog for sending this over. “The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services honored child...Read More

Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog site of the week is the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s online resource center. Jim says “(T)he ABA Center for Professional Responsibility homepage provides free ethics and professionalism resources for lawyers, such as an online version of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, links to many ethics and professionalism...Read More

Ten Mistakes Even Good Mediators Make is post from Mediator Blah Blah and is well worth reading. Geoff Sharp, the author of this blog, knows his stuff. He credits New York attorney Stephen A. Hockman for the list, but adds nice links to illustrate the rationale behind many of the rules.Read More

While beyond the scope of this blog. the Indiana Law Blog published last evening Judicial Surveys Vex the Bench, offering comment and a link at the end to a number of other posts on the politics of electing and appointing judges. It is must reading for those interested in the politics surrounding our judiciary, and...Read More