Retrial planned in eastern Indiana fatal stabbing case
A retrial is planned after a jury couldn’t reach a verdict in the trial of a man charged in the death of a man found stabbed on a sidewalk in eastern Indiana.
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4 injured in fire at Pendleton Correctional Facility
A fire at central Indiana’s Pendleton Correctional Facility has been extinguished after heavily damaging one of the prison complex’s buildings.
High drama in Senate for pivotal Kavanaugh-Ford showdown
The Senate Judiciary Committee braced for a history-making clash as Brett Kavanaugh and one of his accusers awaited their chance to testify Thursday about her claim that the Supreme Court nominee sexually attacked her when both were teenagers.
Indiana Uber drivers to receive $100 each from settlement
Attorney General Curtis Hill said Indiana will receive nearly $1.5 million of the $148 million Uber has agreed to pay to states after the ride-hailing company failed for a year to notify drivers that hackers had stolen their personal information.
Opinions Sept. 26, 2018
The following Indiana Tax Court decision was issued Monday.
Garrett LLC v. Noble County Assessor
49T10-1712-TA-22
Tax. Affirms the Indiana Board of Tax Review’s determination of Garrett LLC’s assessed value of its real property for the 2016 tax year. Finds Garrett failed to present sufficient evidence to support its claims on appeal.
New Indianapolis inn of court bringing IP bar, bench together
The central Indiana intellectual property bar will celebrate a significant milestone Wednesday when the Indianapolis Intellectual Property Inn of Court holds its first meeting.
Holcomb’s office ordered to hand over Pence Carrier emails
Gov. Eric Holcomb’s administration has 30 days to turnover emails that passed between former Gov. Mike Pence, the Trump Organization and Carrier Corp. related to the negotiations that led then newly elected President Donald Trump to take credit for saving the Indianapolis plant from closing.
Tax Court: Scanty evidence fails to lower property value
The Indiana Tax Court affirmed an Indiana Board of Tax Review’s determination that evidence presented to reduce a property’s assessment of improvements was not probative of the property’s 2016 market value-in-use.
Ex-cop expected to plead to embezzling $180K from FOP
Federal prosecutors say a former northwestern Indiana police officer allegedly embezzled more than $180,000 from a local Fraternity Order of Police lodge.
Firefighters douse blaze at Pendleton Correctional Facility
A fire at Pendleton Correctional Facility has been extinguished after heavily damaging one of the prison complex’s buildings.
Judge finds Vigo County Jail conditions unconstitutional
A federal judge has ruled conditions are unconstitutional at the overcrowded Vigo County Jail in Terre Haute.
Justices tweak NIPSCO rate hike denial to allow recovery of cost overruns
Revisiting a decision that limited how utilities can pass the bill for future costs to ratepayers, the Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday tweaked its earlier opinion to insert language in a modified decision that now will allow utilities to recover project cost overruns in utility rate increases.
COA to host Tavitas robing ceremony next week
Newest Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Elizabeth F. Tavitas will be ceremonially sworn into office next week when the court hosts a public robing ceremony.
Public Defender Commission announces legislative priorities
The Indiana Public Defender Commission has announced plans to begin a legislative effort intended to stir statewide public defense reform, a decision that comes on the heels of a task force report that highlighted shortcomings in the Hoosier indigent defense system.
Ford’s lawyers submit 4 affidavits backing up assault story
Christine Blasey Ford’s lawyers said Wednesday they have given the Senate sworn affidavits from four people who say she told them well before Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination that she had been sexually assaulted when she was much younger.
Three magistrate finalists named for Lake County judgeship
Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb will select one of three magistrate judges to fill the vacancy on the Lake Superior Court created when Judge Elizabeth Tavitas was appointed to the Indiana Court of Appeals this summer. The Lake County Judicial Nominating Commission late Tuesday named magistrate judges Lisa A. Berdine, Thomas P. Hallett and Nanette K. Raduenz as finalists to succeed Tavitas in Lake Superior Court 3, family division.
Opinions Sept. 25, 2018
Indiana Supreme Court
State of Indiana v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company
18S-IF-193
Infraction. Finds Indiana’s blocked-crossing statute which prevents trains from blocking intersections for more than 10 minutes is pre-empted by the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act. Holds that Indiana’s statute, Ind. Code section 8-6-7.5-1, violates the ICCTA’s prohibition on managing or governing rail transportation by causing Norfolk Southern to change several key operations just to try to comply.
Indiana Supreme Court greenlights blocked railroad crossings
A unanimous Indiana Supreme Court sent a message Tuesday to Hoosier motorists stuck at railroad crossings waiting for trains to pass: relax, you’re going to be there awhile. The court struck down a state law limiting blocked crossings to 10 minutes, holding that such regulations were pre-empted by federal law.
COA: Lawyer’s undiscovered fraud wouldn’t have changed guilty plea
The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed a decision that found an attorney’s alleged misconduct would not have resulted in a different outcome of a man’s guilty plea for health care fraud.
Bill Cosby gets to 3 to 10 years for 2004 sex assault
Former television star and comedian Bill Cosby has been sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison and must register as a sexually violent predator for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home more than a decade ago.