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A DACA Renewal training presentation will begin at 9:00 am for volunteer attorneys. Attorneys will begin meeting with clients at 10:15 AM in designated areas. Volunteer attorneys will each meet with two clients individually, over the course of two hours, to complete the DACA Renewal applications. Upon completion, Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic staff will review […]
West Lafayette Community School Corp. is suing the state to protect a vacant elementary school building from being sold or leased to a charter school for $1. Charter schools can lease or buy the building for $1 if a school building is unused for two years. But the Department of Education must know beforehand, according to a 2011 law.
A northeastern Indiana sheriff charged in an altercation with a teenage boy could face a civil lawsuit from the youth’s family. Brad and Erin Bullerman filed a tort claim in August against Allen County Sheriff David Gladieux, alleging unlawful and excessive force.
Talks have ended between two central Indiana counties about possibly building a regional jail that they would share. The Madison County Council voted to halt discussions with Henry County and recommend that Madison County commissioners start a feasibility study for a new jail in Anderson potentially costing $50 million.
Attorneys for an Indiana woman accused of providing support to the Islamic State group received a judge’s approval to seek depositions from three Yazidis who were taken as slaves by her husband, who she says died while fighting for IS.
A former Illinois Congressman who redecorated his Capitol Hill office in an extravagant “Downton Abbey” style and then was indicted in 2016 for federal campaign finance violations has won a dispute over attorney fees against his former counsel, the Bopp Law Firm in Terre Haute.
Indiana Supreme Court
Rainbow Realty Group, Inc., et al. v. Katrina Carter and Quentin Lintner
19S-CC-38
Civil collection. Affirms the Marion Superior Court’s judgment for tenants Katrina Carter and Quentin Lintner against Rainbow Realty Group Inc. on their claim under Indiana’s residential landlord tenant statutes. Reverses the judgment awarding relief to the couple under the Deceptive Consumer Sales Act and remands with instructions to enter judgment for Rainbow. Affirms the trial court’s resolution of the remaining claims and counterclaims. Remands with instructions to recalculate the couple’s award of reasonable attorney’s fees, including appellate fees they may seek.
Students interested in working for family offices or firms with family office service practices can now receive training through a newly launched Indiana University Maurer School of Law program. IU Maurer’s family office practice program will be the first in the nation to target the specific practice area, the school announced Thursday.
Indiana prosecutors have charged a couple with abandoning their adopted daughter in 2013 and moving to Canada, renting an apartment in Lafayette for the then-11-year-old girl but otherwise leaving her to fend for herself. Prosecutors in Tippecanoe County filed neglect charges Wednesday against 45-year-old Kristine Elizabeth Barnett and 43-year-old Michael Barnett.
An Indianapolis transportation attorney has been named chairman of the American College of Transportation Attorneys. ACTA, a nonprofit association consisting of a select nationwide group of experienced transportation defense lawyers, announced its election of Scopelitis, Gavin, Light, Hanson & Feary partner Michael B. Langford as chairman effective Aug. 16.
He was convicted in 2013 of brutally killing his wife and two stepchildren. His death sentence has already been upheld on direct appeal, but Kevin Isom is again asking the Indiana Supreme Court to give him another chance at a sentence less than death.
Would-be homebuyers secured a partial victory from the Indiana Supreme Court against Rainbow Realty Group after it concluded the parties’ rent-to-buy agreement was not a land-sale contract. However, relief awarded to the tenants under Indiana’s Deceptive Consumer Sales Act was reversed.
Speaker: Robert G. Schwemm, Ashland-Spears Distinguished Research Professor and William L. Matthews, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law Click here to view agenda. Date: Friday, November 8, 2019 Time (local time): 9:00 am – 3:30 pm Credit hours: 5.3 CLE Cost: $75 (includes box lunch) Location: John Boner Neighborhood […]
An Evansville woman has been arrested for allegedly stealing money intended for the burial plot and headstone of a 3-year-old boy who died in a hot car.
A Danville man has been convicted of murder in the November 2017 death of his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son.
A 23-year prison sentence was handed a northwest Indiana man for the 2017 murder of his girlfriend’s mother and brother.
Moderator: Jack Stark, Barnes & Thornburg LLP Presenters: James Bell, Paganelli Law Group, Program Chair Meg Christensen, Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP Mike Witte, Executive Director, Indiana Disciplinary Commission Click here for more details. Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 Time: 2:30 – 4:45 pm Registration begins at 2:00 pm Credit Hours: 2.0 CLE/Ethics Cost: $99 Click […]
A teenager charged with arson in a fire that swept a vacant warehouse complex in western Indiana nearly four months after another blaze damaged the same site has been declared a delinquent child.
Indiana Court of Appeals
William Hedrick v. State of Indiana
18A-CR-01945
Criminal. Grants William Hedrick’s petition for rehearing to correct errors in the Indiana Court of Appeals’ original opinion. Reaffirms the original opinion in all other respects, holding the erroneous admission of the Drug Enforcement Administration agent’s deposition testimony was harmless.
Although the state was able to get a trial court to reconsider the suppression of cellphone evidence in a rape trial, it could not convince the Indiana Court of Appeals that its pursuit of an interlocutory appeal was timely.