Indiana woman charged in business thefts, fraud scheme
An Indianapolis woman faces forgery, counterfeiting and other charges for allegedly defrauding more than 20 central Indiana residents through a theft scheme.
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An Indianapolis woman faces forgery, counterfeiting and other charges for allegedly defrauding more than 20 central Indiana residents through a theft scheme.
Since June 1, a metal detector has been stationed at the Clarksville Town Hall's main entrance on Tuesdays and Thursdays and in front of the doors to Town Court on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The detectors also are used to scan people entering Town Council meetings.
A federal judge in Texas has threatened to hold Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and other top immigration enforcement officials in contempt of court for not fixing problems that led to work permits being mistakenly awarded under President Barack Obama's executive immigration action after the judge had put the plan on hold.
A pot-smoking church sued the city of Indianapolis and state of Indiana on Wednesday, claiming laws against possession and use of marijuana infringe on its religious beliefs.
A judge who refused to marry a same-sex couple said on Wednesday that he wants to know if he can skip out of performing gay weddings altogether.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the government will make federal marriage benefits available to same-sex couples following a Supreme Court of the United States decision last month that legalized same-sex marriage.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Anthony Furlani v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
49A02-1412-CR-830
Criminal. Affirms aggregate sentence of 35 years for four counts of child molestation as Class A felonies and three counts of child molestation as Class C felonies.
Jamie Johnson v. Courtney Johnson (mem. dec.)
88A01-1409-DR-406
Domestic relation. Affirms final dissolution decree. Finds any error in failing to explain a deviation from a 50/50 division of remaining property was harmless. Also rules trial court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to order Courtney Johnson to pay attorney fees to Jamie Johnson.
Kyle Beals v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
49A02-1411-PC-776
Post conviction. Affirms denial of petition for post-conviction relief.
Eric L. Carter v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
63A01-1412-CR-527
Criminal. Affirms 12-year sentence for possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon, as a Class B felony.
Anteis Robinson v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
49A04-1411-CR-536
Criminal. Affirms conviction of resisting law enforcement, as a Class A misdemeanor.
Rumaldo M. Juarez v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
29A04-1410-CR-508
Criminal. Affirms convictions of Class B felony sexual misconduct with a minor and Class C felony sexual misconduct with a minor.
Christopher Rehtorik v. Jamie Rehtorik (mem. dec.)
64A03-1411-DR-402
Domestic relation. Affirms trial court’s determination that Jamie Rehtorik was entitled to claim minor child on her 2012 federal and state tax returns and affirms denial of Christopher Rehtorik’s motion for rule to show cause. Also affirms order for Christopher Rehtorik to pay $6,000 of Jamie Rehtorik’s attorney fees. Declines Jamie Rehtorik’s request for appellate attorney fees.
Christopher J. Wilson v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
79A02-1411-CR-791
Criminal. Affirms 13-year sentence for pleading guilty to sexual misconduct with a minor, a Class B felony.
Mohammed Nadeem v. Shahidatul Abubakar (mem. dec.)
02A04-1407-DR-343
Domestic relation. Affirms order dissolving marriage. Finds trial court did not abuse its discretion in choosing a valuation date for certain marital assets or in failing to consider the fund Nadeem had received from his family as marital debt. Also rules trial court did not abuse its discretion in awarding 60 percent of the marital estate to Abubakar or in ordering Nadeem to pay $14,000 in Abubakar’s attorney fees. Judge Margret Robb concurs in result without opinion.
Kenneth Cushingberry v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
49A02-1410-CR-724
Criminal. Affirms one-year sentence for convictions of theft, as a Class A misdemeanor, and possession of marijuana, as a Class B misdemeanor.
Cindy Brothers, As Personal Representative of the Estate of Kristopher Stately, Deceased, Alicia Arnold and Tiffany Arnold v. Lake Holiday Enterprises, Inc. (mem. dec.)
37A03-1410-CT-347
Civil tort. Affirms summary judgment in favor of Lake Holiday on Alicia and Tiffany Arnold’s bystander claims of negligent infliction of emotional distress. Finds its reversal of summary judgment on the remaining claims remains appropriate.
Allen E. Wilson v. Amy L. Wilson (mem. dec.)
34A02-1410-DR-754
Domestic relation. Affirms trial court’s denial of Allen Wilson’s post-judgment requests for further discovery and exclusion of husband’s $36,815 advance from the marital estate. Reverses trial court’s inclusion of four race cars in the marital estate and the valuation of the 2002 Corvette. Remands with instructions that the trial court include only the $7,500 Outlaw in the marital estate and value the 2002 Corvette at $19,000.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Choice Hotels International, Inc. v. Anuj Grover, Arjun Grover and Dharam Punwani
14-3294
Appeal from the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana, Hammond Division;
Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen
Civil. Affirms denial of motion for relief from judgment. Finds the investors cannot have the judgment set aside because their attorney failed to protect their interests. Instead they should seek remedy through a malpractice action.
Siblings trading motions over their deceased father’s estate got multiple denials from the trial court.
A trial court wrongly denied a plaintiff’s motion for a declaratory judgment arising from an inability to select a panelist to review a malpractice dispute on behalf of a woman who died after a stroke.
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. and Acrux DDS Pty Ltd. have filed a lawsuit against Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc. for alleged infringement of patents that cover the testosterone treatment Axiron.
An agent for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told jurors he found no evidence of a destructive device or bomb at a 2012 explosion that devastated an Indianapolis neighborhood, killing two.
A family’s attempt to apply Illinois law in an Indiana traffic fatality failed to overcome state court precedent, which has established that laws of the state where an accident happened govern the conduct of the parties.
A $307,193 property tax refund received by owners of industrial property in Marion County was wrongly awarded to borrowers who had defaulted on a mortgage on the property, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.
A child born to a married couple who placed the newborn for adoption may have had a different father, and a trial court erred in denying his requests for genetic testing that could have given him standing to contest the adoption, the Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.
Although the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed the party of investors did have a “poor lawyer,” the panel declined to overturn the nearly $450,000 judgment against them, saying “legal bungling … does not justify reopening a judgment.”
A former Indiana police officer sentenced to 40 years in prison after he transferred guns and agreed to protect a cocaine shipment in a sting operation lost his federal court appeal.
Valparaiso University School of Law professor Del Wright Jr. has been appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure.
Warning that a national data breach law would “make consumers less protected,” Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has joined 46 other state and territorial attorneys general in asking Congress to preserve states’ ability to respond to cyber theft.
Insurance agents say the girlfriend of a man accused of blowing up an Indianapolis house nearly doubled the coverage for the contents of her home 11 months before the explosion that killed two neighbors.