Indiana Court decisions – Feb. 1-14, 2018
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As a new documentary on the notorious Tony Kiritsis kidnapping case in Indianapolis wins critical acclaim, attorneys who worked on the case note it was an impetus for insanity defense reforms that swept the nation.
Film review Robert Hammerle categorically judges this year’s standouts in his annual Academy Awards predictions.
I think our daily interactions, our jobs, our perspective, and our lives, in general, would be greatly enhanced if we kept the notion of empathetic service in the forefront of our minds.
A respected attorney clearly understood that a walk to the courthouse along a busy city street was a chance to bump into other lawyers, friends, clients and prospective clients. He was not going to miss out on that opportunity by taking a shortcut.
One of the most common responses we have seen from current law students is a zero-tolerance policy for instances of sexual misconduct. As the culture has changed in the last few months nationwide about the topic, it has invaded the law school, so far as being part of a few exam fact patterns.
In late notice cases, demonstrating an absence of prejudice should be allowed to avoid a loss of benefits disproportionate to any harm in the delay of notice.
Lawmakers have offered more than a dozen bills to address a growing children in need of services crisis, many of which have won broad support in the General Assembly.
While businesses and industries across the board continue to address how best to evolve their data security and practices to, at the very least, minimize the risk of a cyberattack, the insurance industry is also evolving and working with these companies to produce and market insurance policies and products to respond to a cyber event.
Lyles Station, a community along the Patoka River in southwest Indiana, is long past its heyday of 800 residents working their farms, practicing their trades and educating their children. But as the only historic rural black settlement still standing in Indiana, its unique history is being celebrated.
What happens when technology threatens to not only disrupt a market, but completely reshape it? This is the question facing insurance industry experts as “Insurtech” — a portmanteau of the words “insurance” and “technology” — continues to rise.
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Passage of federal tax reform spelled numerous changes for wealthy Americans, and taxpayers and their lawyers have been forced to learn new nuances to estate planning and wealth management procedures as they try to determine how the new legislation will impact them.
Despite a continued need for legal representation, few Americans hire attorneys. Legal aid experts said there are two questions the legal community should consider: what’s keeping people, particularly those from low-income communities, from hiring legal help; and how can the profession reverse the trend?
After almost 38 years in business, Montross Miller Muller Mendelson & Kennedy has undergone a significant reorganization. Two founding partners, John Muller and Tilden Mendelson, retired in 2017, and all four associates — Nathan Miller, Belinda Kunczt, Brad Kallmyer and Kerri Farmer — have been made partners.
Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen conducted secured transaction law training workshops for legal professionals in December in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It was the first such training in the nation for judges on the new laws.
Indiana’s civil forfeiture reform legislation continues to breeze through the General Assembly, with the House Judiciary Committee offering the most recent unanimous vote in support of the bill on Monday.
Indiana Court of Appeals
In the Matter of E.Y., Child in Need of Services, and U.F. (Mother) v. Indiana Department of Child Services
49A02-1707-JC-1634
Juvenile CHINS. Reverses the adjudication of U.F.’s son, E.Y., as a child in need of services. Finds the Marion Superior Court clearly erred when it found E.Y. to be a CHINS. Judge Michael Barnes dissents with separate opinion.
A Texas-based attorney who was reciprocally suspended in Indiana has been reinstated to the practice of law in the Hoosier state.
Two Indiana appellate panels will leave the Statehouse courtroom this week to hear arguments across the state.