For a couple of decades or longer “dead on the courthouse steps” was my standard response to queries about my retirement plans. Things have changed. My retirement from the active practice of law is imminent. I have begun withdrawing from cases. I am declining new cases and new clients. The plan is to close my […]
Today (May 15, 2024) I received a copy of yesterday’s Order from the Indiana Supreme Court for the immediate amendment of the numeric table following the Indiana Child Support Rules & Guidelines. The Order suggests there was a glitch in the old numeric table such that the combined child support obligation of both parents having […]
It was May 2, 2011 when Navy Seals fatally shot Osama bin Laden on the order of their commander in Chief, President Barack Obama. Every American who was alive on September 11, 2001 knows why bin Laden was put to death. There were also the “collateral damage” deaths of bin Laden guards and family members. […]
I can almost say that most of the people I’ve known who were murdered were lawyers. Do you recall the name Jay Given? How about Clarence Banning? And more recently we have William Enslen¹ murdered. These lawyers practiced in Hammond and East Chicago. For Jay Given and Clarence Banning, no one was ever charged with […]
Should there be an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip? What about the Israeli hostages held since October 7, 2023? Should a ceasefire be conditioned on their release? Since the murderous border incursions of October 7th and the concurrent torrent of rockets fired into Israel from Gaza City, it seems that Israel has been carrying […]
It was Saturday, March 9¹, 2024 when I made it outdoors for a progress check on construction of what they call the Westlake Extension of the Southshore commuter rail line. My home in the Edison Elementary neighborhood is less than a mile from the point where new rails meet the Little Calumet River. It is […]
One of the most frequent misquotes of the U.S. Constitution is that the familiar annual State of the Union speech is a constitutional requirement. While the topic is mentioned in Article II, there is absolutely no requirement of annual activity nor any requirement of a speech or a broadcast of the event. Here is the […]
The unkept promise of the bipartisan Simpson-Mazzoli Act of 1986 is that its amnesty for millions of undocumented (a/k/a illegal) immigrants arriving in the U.S. prior to January 1982 was supposed to be a one-time thing, a resolution to an immigration crisis so bad that it would never be allowed to occur again in the […]
We have all seen them, the pathetic old bastards in public life who have been getting away with bad (and criminal) behavior for most of their lives. Then at an age when they should be kicking back to enjoy a retirement funded with ill-gotten gains of earlier years, there comes (at last) a criminal charge […]
As of this frigid mid-January we are faced once again with the prospect of a federal government shutdown for want of a budget or another Continuing Resolution (“CR”) authorizing deficit spending. The CLB has already declared the theme of the 28th Amendment (which is not yet written or proposed officially). So this Article is about […]