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B.A., The Ohio State University; J.D., Capital University Law School; LL.M., University of Texas School of Law. LLOYD T. WILSON, Jr., Associate Professor of Law and Director, Central and Eastern European Law Program. B.A., Wabash College; M.A., Duke University; J.D., Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington. MARY T. WOLF, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs. B.A., Saint Xavier College; J.D., University of Iowa College of Law. R. GEORGE WRIGHT, Lawrence A. Jegen HI Professor of Law. A.B., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Indiana University; J.D., Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis. Emeriti Faculty THOMAS B. Allington, Professor ofLaw Emeritus. B.S., J.D., University ofNebraska; LL.M., New York University School of Law. EDWARD P. ARCHER, Professor ofLaw Emeritus. B.M.E., Renesselaer Polytechnic Institute; J.D., LL.M., Georgetown University Law School. JAMES F. BAILEY, III, Professor of Law Emeritus. A.B., J.D., M.A.L.S., The University of Michigan. AGNES P. BARRETT, Associate Professor ofLaw Emerita. B.S., J.D., Indiana University. CLYDE HARRISON CROCKETT, Professor of Law Emeritus. A.B., J.D., University of Texas; LL.M., University of London (The London School of Economics and Political Science). DEBRA A. FALENDER, Professor ofLaw Emerita. A.B., Mount Holyoke College; J.D., Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis. David A. FUNK, Professor of Law Emeritus. A.B., College of Wooster; J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law; M.A., The Ohio State University; LL.M., Case Western Reserve University; LL.M., Columbia Law School. PAUL J. GALANTI, Professor of Law Emeritus. A.B., Bowdoin College; J.D., University of Chicago Law School. Helen P. Garfield, Professor of Law Emerita. B.S.J., Northwestern University; J.D., University of Colorado School of Law. HAROLD GREENBERG, Professor ofLaw Emeritus. A.B., Temple University; J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School. JEFFREY W. GROVE, Professor of Law Emeritus. A.B., Juniata College; J.D., George Washington University Law School. WILLIAM F. HARVEY, Carl M. Gray Professor ofLaw & Advocacy Emeritus. A.B., University of Missouri; J.D., LL.M., Georgetown University Law School. W. WILLIAM HODES, Professor of Law Emeritus, A.B., Harvard College; J.D., Rutgers University School of Law—Newark. WILLIAM ANDREW Kerr, Professor of Law Emeritus. A.B., West University; B.S., Duke University; J.D., LL.M., Harvard Law School. William E. Marsh, Professor ofLaw Emeritus. B.S., J.D., University of Nebraska. RONALD W. POLSTON, Professor of Law Emeritus. B.S., Eastern Illinois University; LL.B., University of Illinois College of Law. KENNETH M. STROUD, Professor of Law Emeritus. A.B., J.D., Indiana University — Bloomington. JAMES W. TORKE, Carl M. Gray Professor of Law Emeritus. B.S., J.D., University of Wisconsin. James Patrick White, Professor of Law Emeritus. A.B., University of Iowa; J.D., LL.M., George Washington University Law School. Law Library Faculty JUDITH Ford ANSPACH, Professor ofLaw and Director, Ruth Lilly Law Library. B.S., M.L.S., Kent State University; J.D., Mississippi College School of Law. DEBRA DENSLAW, Reference Librarian. B.A., Franklin College; M.S., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; J.D., Valparaiso School of Law. Richard Humphrey, Reference Librarian. A.A., Brewton-Parker Junior College; B.A., Georgia Southwestern College; M.L.S., University of Kentucky. WENDELL E. JOHNTING, Assistant Director for Technical Services. A.B., Taylor University; M.L.S., Indiana University. ChrisE.Long, Catalog Librarian. B.A., Indiana University; M.A., Indiana University; M.L.S., Indiana University. StevenR. MILLER, Reference Librarian. B.S., Lebanon Valley College ofPennsylvania; M.A., Dominican University; M.S., Northwestern University; J.D., The John Marshall Law School. MAHNAZK. MOSHFEGH,Acquisition/Serials Librarian. B.A., National University ofIran; M.S., Tehran University; M.A., Ball State University; M.L.S., Ph.D., Indiana University. MIRIAM A. MURPHY, Associate Director ofLaw Library. B.A., Purdue University; J.D., M.L.S., Indiana University—Bloomington. KlYOSHl Otsu,Automated and Media Services Librarian. A.A., Parkland College; A.B., M.S., C.A.S., University of Illinois. Indiana Law Review Volume 41 2008 Number 4 Copyright © 2008 by the Trustees of Indiana University TABLE OF CONTENTS SURVEY I. Introduction Now or Never: Reforming Indiana's Court System John G. Baker 817 II. Supreme Court Review An Examination of the Indiana Supreme Court Docket, Dispositions, and Voting in 2007 Mark J. Crandley 839 P. Jason Stephenson Carl Butler III. Appellate Procedure Developments in Indiana Appellate Procedure: Appellate Rule Amendments, Remarkable Case Law, and Refining Our Indiana Practice Bryan H. Babb 853 Stephen A. Starks IV. Civil Procedure Recent Developments in Indiana Civil Procedure Michael A. Dorelli 883 Daniel K. Burke V. Constitutional Law Indiana Constitutional Developments: Incremental Change Jon Laramore 923 VI. Criminal Law and Procedure Recent Developments in Indiana Criminal Law and Procedure Joel M. Schumm 955 VII. Evidence Recent Developments in Indiana Evidence Law JeffPapa 997 VIII. Family Law Recent Developments: Indiana Family Law Michael G. Ruppert 1021 Joseph W. Ruppert Joni L. Sedberry IX. Health Care Law Survey of Recent Developments in Health Law Ice Miller LLP 1081 X. Insurance Law Survey of Recent Developments in Insurance Law Richard K. Shoultz 1115 Lewis S. Wooton XL Intellectual Property Law Developments in Intellectual Property Law Christopher A. Brown 1139 XII. Product Liability Survey of Recent Developments in Indiana Product Liability Law Joseph R. Alberts 1 165 James Petersen Robert B. Thornburg XIII. Professional Responsibility Survey of the Law of Professional Responsibility Greg N. Anderson 1213 XIV. Property Law Recent Developments in Indiana Real Property Law Tanya D. Marsh 1237 XV. Taxation Recent Developments in Indiana Taxation Lawrence A. Jegen, III 1271 Meredith A. Devlin Tom D. Conley XVI. Tort Law Recent Developments in Indiana Tort Law Ann L. Thrasher Papa 1345 Volume 41 Number 4