CONSTITUTIONAL BASIS FOR PERSONAL JURISDICTION IN INDIANA *The attached analysis of Trial Rule 4.4 is taken from Arthur, Civil Trial Rule Handbook, 22B Indiana Practice §4.4:1 (Thomson 2009)

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The attached is taken from Arthur, Civil Trial Rule Handbook, 22B Indiana Practice §26:9 (Thomson 2009)

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This week President Obama advised us of the state of the union and last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor advised us of the state of unions.

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The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing this Wednesday, October 7, with the idea of examining recent discrimination decisions handed down by the United States Supreme Court. According to the webpage for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, this hearing is billed as one on: “Workplace Fairness: Has the Supreme Court Been Misinterpreting Laws Designed to Protect American Workers from Discrimination?”

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Signaling that compromise with potential detractors (i.e. Blue Dog Democrats) might be realized, Senator Arlen Specter provided hope to organized labor that the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) will be elevated from its current status of unfulfilled campaign promise. At the recent AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh, Specter told those gathered that the bill will pass in a version that “will be totally satisfactory to labor." Total satisfaction here is in the eye of the politician. The bill will no doubt include provisions that cause rancor with employers but will not include some provisions that organized labor was looking for.

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