Ex-manager at Terre Haute airport faces charges
Indiana State Police have arrested the former office and financial manager of Terre Haute International Airport on preliminary charges of theft, forgery and fraud.
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Indiana State Police have arrested the former office and financial manager of Terre Haute International Airport on preliminary charges of theft, forgery and fraud.
A federal grand jury has indicted a former northern Indiana official on charges alleging she embezzled more than $150,000.
Failure in a notice of dissolution to describe information that must be included in a claim filed against the company does not make the notice invalid, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. Since the notice was valid, a convenience store owner’s lawsuit is time-barred.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Alberto Villalva v. State of Indiana (NFP)
49A02-1401-CR-26
Criminal. Affirms conviction of Class A misdemeanor operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Michael T. Paille v. State of Indiana (NFP)
18A05-1404-CR-152
Criminal. Reverses charges of Class D felony failure to register as a sex offender and Class A misdemeanor failure of a sex offender to possess identification. Remands with instructions to vacate the criminal charges against Paille and grant his motion for removal from the sex offender registry.
Thomas Booker v. State of Indiana (NFP)
49A02-1402-CR-107
Criminal. Affirms conviction of Class B felony criminal deviate conduct.
Daniel E. Stuckman, Sr., and Daniel E. Stuckman, Jr. v. Angela C. Stuckman, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gary A. Stuckman, deceased, and Angela C. Stuckman, et al. (NFP)
43A03-1403-PL-93
Civil plenary. Affirms summary judgment in favor of Angela C. Stuckman, the Kosciusko County Board of Zoning Appeals and the Papakeechie Protective Association with respect to Daniel Stuckman Sr.’s and Daniel Stuckman Jr.’s complaint for injunction relief to compel compliance with certain restrictive covenants.
Nancy Hay v. Richard Hay (NFP)
11A01-1401-DR-22
Domestic relation. Reverses order holding Nancy Hay in contempt for failing to pay her ex-husband in accordance with the terms of the marital estate distribution order. Remands with instructions. In a separate opinion, Judge Crone concurs in part, concurs in result in part, and dissents in part.
In the Matter of the Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship of: T.E. (Minor Child) and T.E. (Father) v. The Indiana Department of Child Services (NFP)
10A01-1401-JT-41
Juvenile. Affirms termination of parental rights.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Securities and Exchange Commission v. First Choice Management Services Inc., et al; CRM Energy Partners and John W. Hannah v. Joseph D. Bradley, Receiver
14-1270, 14-2284
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana, South Bend Division, Judge Robert L. Miller Jr.
Civil. Affirms denial of CRM’s motion to intervene in the sale of an oil and gas lease in order to compensate victims of fraud. Dismisses its appeal of the District Court’s approval of the sale. CRM waited too long to intervene in the action.
The new top federal prosecutor for central and southern Indiana has no idea how long he'll be in the job.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against an appeal in a protracted case involving the sale of oil and gas leases in efforts to recoup money for victims defrauded by First Choice Management Services. The judges held the company seeking to intervene failed to do so in a timely manner.
The state presented sufficient evidence to support a man’s conviction of robbery, which was based on a theory of accomplice liability, the Court of Appeals ruled. The charge stems from a home invasion in St. Joseph County during a family gathering.
A man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to dealing in oxycodone couldn’t convince the Indiana Court of Appeals that his sentence should be reconsidered based on the revised criminal code that took effect July 1.
Gov. Mike Pence has named Bodie J. Stegelmann as judge in Goshen City Court. Stegelmann currently is a partner at Yoder Ainlay Ulmer & Buckingham LLP, where he practices real estate law.
A state panel gave preliminary approval Wednesday to Indiana's first rules governing big stand-alone ponds and lagoons built to hold manure trucked in from livestock farms.
The Indiana attorney general’s office Wednesday asked the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to stay its Sept. 4 order striking down Indiana’s ban on same-sex marriage.
The U.S. Supreme Court has formally added gay marriage cases to the justices' agenda for their closed-door conference on Sept. 29.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Jay Sleet v. State of Indiana (NFP)
49A02-1311-CR-997
Criminal. Affirms conviction of Class C felony battery and the refusal by the court to award credit time for time served on pretrial home detention.
Melissa S. Johnson Mabie v. State of Indiana (NFP)
43A03-1404-CR-112
Criminal. Affirms revocation of probation.
Kokomo Board of Zoning Appeals v. Markland Properties, LLC, Thrust Inc. d/b/a Tease Bar, Brett Morrow and Dustin Ogle (NFP)
34A02-1312-MI-1081
Miscellaneous. Affirms order reversing the board of zoning appeals’ decision that Tease Bar increased the floor area of the business beyond the 10 percent expansion allowed under Kokomo’s zoning ordinance, and, therefore, Tease Bar could no longer operate its sexually oriented adult entertainment business as a legal-nonconforming use.
Roy Austin Smith v. State of Indiana (NFP)
49A02-1312-CR-1091
Criminal. Affirms denial of motion to correct erroneous sentence.
James McDuffy v. State of Indiana (NFP)
49A02-1401-CR-13
Criminal. Vacates McDuff’s conspiracy to commit kidnapping conviction, a Class A felony, on double jeopardy grounds and remands with instructions to vacate the sentence thereon. Affirms convictions of murder and Class A felonies kidnapping, attempted murder and robbery.
Donald Moss v. Progressive Design Apparel, Inc. (NFP)
49A05-1401-PL-3
Civil plenary. Affirms grant of preliminary injunction in favor of Progressive Design Apparel and remands for a determination of a proper bond because the order PDA pay a $100 bond is insufficient based on the damages estimated in the case.
Mary Ragon as Personal Representative of the Estate of Larry Ragon v. Eli Lilly & Company (NFP)
93A02-1402-EX-80
Agency action. Affirms ruling that Larry Ragon failed to meet his burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that he suffered from asbestosis.
Indiana Supreme Court
Barbara J. Pohl v. Michael G. Pohl
32S04-1404-DR-245
Domestic relation. Reverses trial court and remands with instructions to apply the incapacity maintenance statute’s “substantial and continuing change in circumstances” standard to the evidence presented at the modification hearing. Any maintenance provision in a settlement agreement, regardless of its grounds, is modifiable only if the agreement so provides. The agreement in this matter contains such a provision.
Indiana Legal Services and Heartland Pro Bono Council will be using a portion of a class-action settlement to help Indianapolis residents who have battled payday loan companies or suffered other consumer rights abuses.
A trial court’s assessment of the public interest regarding whether a doctor is prohibited under a noncompete agreement to practice within 25 miles of his former office in Rensselaer was contrary to law, the Indiana Court of Appeals held Wednesday. The judges reversed the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction preventing the doctor from opening a new practice next door to his previous one.
The city of Anderson does not meet the requirements to bring a declaratory judgment action to challenge the town of Lapel’s annexation of land in Madison County that Anderson once considered annexing.
If divorcing parties want to make judicial modification available for the maintenance agreements, they must say so in their contract, the Indiana Supreme Court pointed out Tuesday. Because a divorced couple’s maintenance agreement allowed for court intervention, the justices ordered the trial court to consider the wife’s request for modification.
The Indiana Supreme Court reversed summary judgment in favor of the state on its motion for forfeiture of cash found on a man accused of dealing cocaine. The justices found the man’s “self-serving” affidavit specifically controverted the state’s prima facie case that the cash was connected to drug crimes.