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There are a lot of areas where Hoosiers could make strides in improving the state’s civic health, but Indiana’s voter registration numbers continue to be the most significant problem.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Imogene Perry v. Anne H. Poindexter, Personal Representative of the Supervised Estate of Richard Abbott, Janice Mandla Mattingly, Michael P. Brown and Phillip Brown
22A-EU-2774
Estate. Reverses the Hamilton Superior Court’s denial of Imogene Perry’s motion for relief from default judgment. Finds the trial court erred when it denied Perry’s motion for relief from judgment because she did not receive notice of the estate’s motion for return of funds and/or the related hearing in a way calculated to provide her a meaningful opportunity to appear and defend herself. Remands to the trial court to hold a hearing on all pending motions in the matter including but not limited to the motion for return of funds and any motions with respect to fees Perry and/or the estate paid to Janice Mandla Mattingly and/or Lauth Investigations International Inc.
Regardless of the intent behind a notice that was served four days before a hearing — and one day before Christmas — the notice was not sufficient for an elderly Georgia resident to hire an attorney and travel to Indiana for a hearing on a disputed estate.
An Allen County grandmother seeking visitation with her granddaughter had standing under the state’s Grandparent Visitation Act to submit a visitation petition, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled in a Wednesday reversal.
The Kentucky gun shop that sold an AR-15 to a man who used it to kill five co-workers and wrote in his journal that the gun was “so easy” to buy is facing a lawsuit filed Monday from survivors and families of the victims.
Several former charter school operators have been indicted for their alleged roles in conspiring to defraud the state of Indiana by padding student enrollment at virtual charter schools.
A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals of Indiana heard arguments Tuesday on whether the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles must issue driver’s licenses with an “X” gender designation for nonbinary Hoosiers.
Still reeling over a slew of executive orders issued by Gov. Eric Holcomb during the pandemic, Senate Republicans advanced a bill Tuesday that seeks to limit the governor’s emergency powers.
The Indiana Department of Health will no longer release individual terminated pregnancy reports following the state’s near-total abortion ban. It will still release aggregated reports.
A federal judge has denied Butler University’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by four student-athletes who allege that a former athletic trainer sexually abused them and that the university’s athletic director failed to protect them.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
State of Indiana v. Trisha M. Woodworth
22A-CR-2557
Criminal. Reverses the grant of the Lake Superior Court’s own motion to correct error, vacating Trisha Woodworth’s conviction of Level 1 felony neglect of a dependent resulting in death and granting Woodworth a new trial, but also reverses Woodworth’s conviction. Finds the trial court abused its discretion when it granted its own motion to correct error. Also finds there is insufficient evidence to support the conviction.
After reinstating a woman’s neglect conviction based on trial court error, the Court of Appeals of Indiana then reversed that conviction based on insufficient evidence.
A man whose rape trial included “surprise” evidence and an amendment to the charging information after deliberations had begun failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that his three felony convictions should be overturned.
The estate of a woman who died after a struggle with Indianapolis police may pursue a battery claim at trial next month after a federal judge denied the city’s motion to dismiss.
Washington’s federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected Donald Trump’s request to reconsider a gag order restricting the former president’s speech in the case charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 election.
Indiana’s House of Representatives on Monday unanimously voted to offer former public employees a retirement benefit boost known as a 13th check.
A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed Border Patrol agents to resume cutting for now razor wire that Texas installed along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The mother of a teenager who committed a mass school shooting in Michigan is headed to trial on involuntary manslaughter charges in an unusual effort to pin criminal responsibility on his parents for the deaths of four students.
An Indianapolis personal injury firm has won summary judgment on a former employee’s claim that the firm withheld compensation after she was terminated.
A Washington attorney’s failure to cooperate with the state’s disciplinary process has resulted in his indefinite suspension from the practice of law in Indiana.