Last New Year's Eve the Indiana Law Blog published a Wish List for 2004. Last year's list is set out below. As you will see, wishing does not appear to make it so . . .
I am starting to put together the 2005 Indiana Law Blog Wish List. Do you have suggestions? Send them to me here - (please put ILB Wish List in the subject heading). If you do not want your name used, please let me know.
Here is the 2004 ILB Wish List entry, still waiting for Santa's/Father Time's magic. Posted on 12/31/03, it began:
This is New Year's Eve. Here is what the Indiana Law Blog would like to see for Indiana in the New Year. Maybe not all at once, but at least a start.Finally, maybe just posting a list and checking it twice isn't enough. If you have practical suggestions for implementing these, or the new 2005 "wishes", please send those along too. Posted by Marcia Oddi at December 20, 2004 08:03 AM1. Women (note the plural) on the Indiana Supreme Court. Current status: Five men, no women.
2. Copies of briefs for cases before the Indiana Supreme Court made available online. When? At the same time they are filed with the Clerk of the Court.
3. The Debates of the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Convention Journal, and related documents made readily available on CD-ROM or DVD, and priced right for the student. Incredibly, these books are out-of-print -- I had to slowly assemble my collection from dealers all over the country.
4. I've got more CD/DVD wishes - the House and Senate Journals since Indiana became a State; the Acts of Indiana for the same time-span. Scanned, so that we can see the printed pages. Electronic finding aids would also be nice, but the important thing right now is to capture all this history and make it available before it totally disintegrates.
5. A booklet containing the Constitution of the State of Indiana, and including all the changes that have been made over time. Also the 1816 Constitution.
6. The Indiana Historical Bureau puts out an invaluable series titled "Constitution Making in Indiana." Volume I, 1780-1850; Vol. II, 1851-1916; Vol. III, 1916-1930; and Vol. IV, 1930-1960. These volumes are compilations of source materials. As stated in the Preface to Volume III:
As in the preceding volumes, the field has been limited to documents bearing some sanction of authority, including in this instance, activities of the General Assembly, governors' messages, party platforms, official ballots, court decisions, and opinions of attorney-generals. They have been taken from the printed House and Senate Journals, the Laws, and the Court Reports, supplemented when necessary by original documents, printed bills, or manuscript records from the office of secretary of state.What we'd like to see in 2004, of course, is: Volume V, 1961-2000! Plus a plan for the future of this publication , which is such an invaluable historical resource for the Courts, the Indiana General Assembly, and all of us citizens of Indiana.