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Retired Marion Superior Court Judge Patricia Gifford, the sixth woman to sit as a trial judge in the state of Indiana and one of the first women in the country to be assigned to prosecute only sex offense cases, died April 8 in Fort Meyers Beach, Florida. She was 79.
Indiana Court of Appeals
In re the Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship of D.P., K.P., and M.P. (Minor Children), and J.P. (Mother) v. The Indiana Department of Child Services (mem. dec.)
53A01-1709-JT-2144
Termination of parental rights. Affirms the termination of J.P.’s parental rights to her children D.P., K.P. and M.P. Finds the Indiana Department of Child Services established by clear and convincing evidence the requisite statutory elements to support the termination decision.
The Indiana Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal that challenged the constitutionality of the state’s commercial court dockets in a case that permitted enforcement of a noncompete agreement against a glass company worker.
The Supreme Court of the United States for the second time has refused to hear an appeal by imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich of his corruption convictions.
An Indiana lawmaker plans to reintroduce legislation to protect the state’s forests after seeing the outcome of a timber cut that removed more than 1,700 trees.
Some patients and doctors in Indiana are worried that increased restrictions imposed in response to the national opioid epidemic may reduce access to necessary medication.
Former FBI director James Comey will speak as part of Purdue University Northwest’s Sinai Forum this September in Michigan City. Forum planners called Comey "a big catch" for the five-speaker series that has hosted figures including Eleanor Roosevelt and Walter Cronkite since 1953.
The porn actress Stormy Daniels is expected to attend a court hearing in New York Monday where a U.S. judge will hear more arguments about President Donald Trump’s extraordinary request that he be allowed to review records seized from his lawyer’s office as part of a criminal investigation before they are examined by prosecutors.
Federal prosecutors said in a court filing Friday that the criminal probe that led them to raid the offices of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, is focused on the attorney’s “personal business dealings” and has been going on for months.
A judge has granted a change of venue to an Evansville man charged with murder in two cases, including one in which an Evansville woman was dismembered.
President Donald Trump issued a full pardon Friday to I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney.
At the Take Back the Circle medication collection event Friday on Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis, success could be measured in pounds. Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill joined the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and Covanta Indianapolis to collect unused, unwanted or expired medications from passersby.
The following Indiana Supreme Court opinion was posted after IL deadline Thursday:
Elizabeth Roumbos v. Samuel G. Vazanellis & Thiros and Stracci, PC
45S03-1710-CT-635
Civil tort. Reverses the grant of summary judgment to Samuel G. Vazanellis and Thiros and Stracci, P.C. on Elizabeth Roumbos’ legal malpractice claim. Finds Vazanellis and the law firm failed to negate the causation element of Roumbos’ malpractice claim by failing to establish as a matter of law that Roumbos would not have succeeded in her premises liability claim. Remands.
The Indiana Court of Appeals will head East next week to hear oral argument on an Indiana University campus.
A Noblesville attorney has been suspended from the practice of law for at least one year after admitting to 10 violations of Indiana professional conduct rules.
A legal malpractice claim against a suspended northern Indiana attorney and his firm will continue after the Indiana Supreme Court found a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the plaintiff’s premises liability claim would have succeeded had the firm not failed to timely file her complaint.
Senate candidate Todd Rokita likely violated ethics laws as Indiana’s secretary of state by repeatedly accessing a Republican donor database from his government office, prompting party officials to lock him out of the system until he angrily complained, three former GOP officials told The Associated Press.
Firing back at a sharply critical book by former FBI director James Comey, President Donald Trump blasted him Friday as an “untruthful slime ball,” saying, “It was my great honor to fire James Comey!”
Indiana Supreme Court
Kristopher L. Weida v. State of Indiana
79S02-1711-CR-687
Criminal. Affirms and reverses in part probation conditions imposed on Kristopher Weida after he was convicted of incest with his teenage niece. Finds the probation condition restricting Weida from accessing websites “frequented by children” is not vague, unreasonable or unduly intrusive on Weida’s constitutional rights. Also finds the probation condition prohibiting Weida from accessing the Internet without approval from his probation officer is unreasonable because it does not reasonably relate to his rehabilitation and to protecting the public. Remands for further proceedings.
Indiana Supreme Court
Kristopher L. Weida v. State of Indiana
79S02-1711-CR-687
Criminal. Affirms and reverses in part probation conditions imposed on Kristopher Weida after he was convicted of incest with his teenage niece. Finds the probation condition restricting Weida from accessing websites “frequented by children” is not vague, unreasonable or unduly intrusive on Weida’s constitutional rights. Also finds the probation condition prohibiting Weida from accessing the Internet without approval from his probation officer is unreasonable because it does not reasonably relate to his rehabilitation and to protecting the public. Remands for further proceedings.