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Under the Cat’s Paw Theory, employers may be liable if it is eventually uncovered that there was a discriminatory basis underlying the adverse employment decision.
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IndyBar: Does Your Paralegal Know Their Value?
Data breaches are quite common for small law firms, happening far more often than you might expect. The obvious implication is one could happen to you.
Pettygrove and Williamson: The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and EEOC regulations
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued its proposed Pregnant Workers Fairness Act in August 2023, and its final rules may be imminent.
New law will let Indiana juries know about seat belt use in crashes
If someone involved in a car crash isn’t buckled up, an Indiana jury currently isn’t allowed to know that due to the state’s longstanding prohibition on introducing such evidence. That will change as of July 1, thanks to the passage of House Bill 1090.
New steps work to fill rural dearth of lawyers
The Indiana Supreme Court and the Indiana State Bar Association are taking big and small steps to help bridge the gap, from making more people eligible to take Indiana’s bar exam to studying the root causes of a shortage that could lead to a lack of access to the legal system.
Indiana Court Decisions: Feb. 22-March 6, 2024
Read Indiana appellate court decisions for the most recent reporting period.
Marion County program battles the ‘financial incarceration’ of eviction
About $2.3 million in grants are helping Lawrence Township Small Claims Court Judge Kimberly Bacon hire additional staff to support a local eviction diversion program that is serving nearly all of Marion County.
Trimble: Retirement planning: It is never too early to start
The overwhelming conclusion has been that lawyers, as a group, do a terrible job of retirement planning.
IndyBar: Practice Toolkit: ‘Your Regularly Scheduled Programming: Why Your Law Firm Needs a Data Security Management Document’
Data breaches are quite common for small law firms, happening far more often than you might expect. The obvious implication is one could happen to you.
Father relieved of obligation to pay for daughter’s college, appellate court affirms
There was clear and convincing evidence that a daughter repudiated her father, thus relieving him of his obligation to pay for her college under a marital dissolution decree, the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed Tuesday.
Opinions March 12, 2024
Indiana Court of Appeals
Brooke Wells v. Joseph Todd Wells and Kimberly Renae Wells
23A-DR-990
Domestic relations. Affirms the Marion Superior Court’s finding that Brooke Wells repudiated her father, Joseph Wells, and therefore the father was relieved of his obligation to pay for her to attend college. Finds the trial court did not clearly err in finding the daughter repudiated her father. Judge Elizabeth Tavitas dissents with separate opinion.
Indiana Supreme Court denies 9 requests for transfer
| IL Staff
The Indiana Supreme Court denied nine requests for transfer last week.
Child welfare bills signed by Holcomb following end of legislative session
Gov. Eric Holcomb has signed several bills into law following the Indiana General Assembly’s adjournment Friday night. Several of those bills make adjustments to children in need of services, with one going into effect upon passage.
Appellate court affirms modification of parenting time doesn’t violate father’s 1st Amendment rights
A mother’s right as a custodial parent to choose her child’s religious upbringing, plus a father’s conduct, justiifed a trial court’s order to reduce the father’s parenting time and restrict his child’s involvement at his church, the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed.
Woman pleads guilty to giving drugs that killed man in Muncie
A 30-year-old woman pleaded guilty to dealing in a controlled substance resulting in death after a man she gave heroin to died of an overdose, according to the Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office.
Biden says he never meant to keep classified documents. Hur stands by report on president’s memory
President Joe Biden repeatedly told a special counsel that he never meant to retain classified information after he left the vice presidency, but he was at times fuzzy about dates and said he was unfamiliar with the paper trail for some of the sensitive documents he handled.
Judge sets May trial date in Delphi murders case
Previously set for October, the jury trial for Richard Allen is now scheduled for May 13 through May 31, according to court records.
Governor signs 67 bills ranging from reading remediation to bobcat hunting
More third graders will be retained due to lack of reading proficiency under a bill Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed Monday, three days after the conclusion of this year’s annual legislative session.
Key moments from the first GOP debate for Indiana governor
All six Republican candidates for Indiana governor gathered onstage Monday night at The Palladium in Carmel’s Center for the Performing Arts and attempted to set themselves apart in a crowded field.
Donald Trump wants New York hush money trial delayed until Supreme Court rules on immunity claims
Donald Trump is seeking to delay his March 25 hush money trial until the Supreme Court rules on the presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases.
