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You may walk the shore of Lake Michigan, Indiana’s Supreme Court held Wednesday. Justices settled that question in a landmark case, finding that the state’s public trust rights to the Lake Michigan shore extend to the ordinary high-water mark.
A central Indiana school corporation was properly granted summary judgment on a parent’s negligence claims, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday, determining the corporation was immune under the Indiana Tort Claims Act.
Indiana’s controversial law that limits a woman’s ability to obtain an abortion will be argued before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday morning. The 2016 law that was barred from taking effect by a federal judge in Indianapolis will be the subject of oral arguments in an appeal brought by the state.
In a case a judge said represents “how substance abuse is savaging the familial bonds within Indiana and around the country,” the Indiana Court of Appeals upheld the adoption of a southern Indiana child without the mother’s consent after finding the mother’s substance abuse made her unfit.
A widow who sued her husband’s employer for various breach and fraud allegations will not be able to continue her case after the Indiana Court of Appeals instructed the trial court to dismiss her claims on remand for failure to comply with the Indiana Tort Claims Act.
The federal age-discrimination lawsuit filed by a longtime bassoonist against the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has been settled.
The Republican leader of the Indiana Senate said Tuesday that he will step down from the Legislature later this year, making him the third high-profile GOP lawmaker to announce their departure from the chamber over the last year.
The following 7th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion was posted after IL deadline Monday:
David Thorne v. Member Select Insurance Company
17-1377
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Hammond Division. Magistrate Judge John. E. Martin.
Civil. Affirms the denial of Member Select Insurance Company’s motion for judgment as a matter of law. Finds there was sufficient evidence to prove David Thorne was a resident of the house for purposes of his insurance policy. Also finds there was sufficient evidence for the jury to determine damages, and the district court did not misinterpret the policy’s loss coverage provision in evaluating whether the evidence was sufficient to support the jury’s damages award.
A Grant County couple must inspect and repair their self-constructed dam after the Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a Department of Natural Resources classification of the dam as “high-hazard.”
A federal judge Monday shut down a southern Indiana attraction’s public encounters with tiger cubs. The judge also halted the declawing of tiger cubs and separating them from their mothers so they could be used in “Tiger Baby Playtime” events where people pay to mingle with declawed big cat cubs.
A Kentucky man convicted in the shooting death of an Indiana teen lost his appeal of his murder conviction after the Indiana Court of Appeals found sufficient, properly obtained evidence to support his conviction.
A man who was convicted of trespassing after he refused to leave the Clay County Prosecutor’s Office until his traffic tickets were dismissed lost an appeal Tuesday.
The Indiana Department of Correction can alter its lethal injection protocols without going through a rule-making process because such protocols are internal procedures without the effect of law, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled in a decision affirming the dismissal of a death row inmate’s challenge to Indiana’s lethal injection cocktail.
A bill that would more narrowly define how out-of-state felonies are treated in Indiana sentencing matters passed its first hurdle in the Indiana Senate.
The discovery last year of the cockroach-covered body of an Indianapolis retirement home resident was the impetus for an administrative complaint against the health facility administrator by Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill.
An insurance company must pay $87,000 in damages to an Indiana homeowner whose house burned to the ground after the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals determined there was sufficient evidence to support the jury’s damages award.
A sex offender convicted in 2010 must make his case to the Indiana Supreme Court as to why a 2015 law should not bar him from attending his son’s school events after the high court granted the state’s petition to transfer the case last week.
The former employee of the University of Notre Dame who was charged with taking nearly $200,000 from the law school’s Clinical Law Center will plead guilty plea and faces up to five years in prison.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Vexol, S.A. de C.V. and Sergio Torreblanca Lopez v. Berry Plastics Corporation
17-2164
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Evansville Division. Judge Tanya Walton Pratt.
Civil. Affirms the district court’s dismissal of Vexol, S.A. de C.V. and Sergio Torreblanca Lopez’s business tort claims under Mexican law. Denies Berry Plastics Corporation’s motion for sanctions against Vexol. Finds Vexol failed to allege any wrongdoing in Mexico by Berry. Also finds the district court did not err in denying Vexol’s motion to file a third amended complaint. Finally, finds Berry failed to file a separate motion for sanctions, as is required under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 38.
President Donald Trump has nominated two Illinois legal professionals with experience in government litigation for judgeships on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.