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Indiana justices granted transfer to two cases for the week ending June 23, including one that involves Duke Energy’s nearly $2 billion economic development plan.
An Indiana trial court properly sanctioned the state by excluding a defendant’s statements related to a polygraph that was supposed to be admissible, the Indiana Supreme Court has ruled.
A man convicted of a sex crime against a minor 15 years ago in Kentucky must remain on Indiana’s sex offender registry, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Tuesday.
Indiana Supreme Court
State of Indiana v. Bryan D. Lyons
23S-CR-163
Criminal. Grants transfer and affirms the suppression of incriminating statements Bryan D. Lyons made immediately after a polygraph that was changed to a “non-stipulated,” inadmissible investigatory examination without disclosure to the state. Finds that before excluding evidence as a Trial Rule 37 discovery sanction, a trial court must find that the exclusion is the sole remedy available to avoid substantial prejudice or that the sanctioned party’s culpability reflects an egregious discovery violation. Also finds the Lawrence Superior Court’s order in Lyons’ case enforced Trial Rule 37 within those limits.
Jeffrey Epstein was left alone in his jail cell with a surplus of bed linens the night he killed himself. Nearly all the surveillance cameras on his unit didn’t record. One worker was on duty for 24 hours straight. And he wasn’t checked on regularly.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that North Carolina’s top court did not overstep its bounds in striking down a congressional districting plan as excessively partisan under state law.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to make it more difficult to convict a person of making a violent threat. The case could make it harder for prosecutors to convict certain people who threaten elected officials, including the president.
The Supreme Court on Monday left in place an appellate ruling barring a North Carolina public charter school from requiring girls to wear skirts to school.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a case it had planned to hear about limits on lawsuits filed by members of Congress against the federal government in a dispute that involved the former Trump International Hotel in Washington.
Prosecutors say they are seeking the death penalty against a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death late last year.
The Indianapolis attorney convicted of two federal misdemeanors for entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to 12 months of probation that includes six days of intermittent confinement.
Indiana Supreme Court
S.D. v. G.D.
23S-PO-89
Protective order. Affirms the issuance of a two-year protective order against father S.D., with the Starke Circuit Court finding that mother G.D. had established that “domestic or family violence” occurred and that father “represents a credible threat to the safety” of G.D. and child H.D. Finds the trial court’s evidence-based findings support its judgment issuing a protective order against S.D.
The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed a two-year protective order Monday for a mother and her child, upholding a trial court’s ruling that the child’s father “represents a credible threat to the safety” of the mother or child.
Two women who joined a wide-ranging MDL against Cook Medical did not allege injuries more than the jurisdictional minimum of $75,000, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in vacating the district court’s grant of summary judgment in Cook’s favor.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana has filed a lawsuit against the Howard County Jail, claiming its policy of limiting what books incarcerated individuals can be sent is unconstitutional.
Two weeks remain to submit your nominations for Indiana Lawyer’s inaugural Diversity in Law awards program.
The rape-related convictions that led to a man’s 650-year aggregate sentence will stand, as will the sentence itself, a split Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Monday in a ruling that included a dissent from one judge on the issue of double jeopardy.
An Indianapolis attorney has been suspended from the practice of law for at least 60 days following his convictions for misdemeanor invasion of privacy.
The Supreme Court on Monday lifted its hold on a Louisiana political remap case, increasing the likelihood that the Republican-dominated state will have to redraw boundary lines to create a second mostly Black congressional district.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left in place a decision that allows more than 230 men to sue Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by a university doctor, the late Richard Strauss.