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Traditional isn’t the word that White Circuit Judge Jason Thompson would use to describe his ascension to the bench. Thompson is the latest Indiana trial court judge to be featured in Indiana Lawyer’s spotlight series focusing on the state’s judicial officers in more rural communities.
Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn and served as the capital of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era. It went on to play a historic and vital role in the 18th century as the central meeting place for our nation’s Founding Fathers. This fall, it will also serve as the location for DRI’s annual meeting.
While it’s our goal year-round to make you, IndyBar members, more profitable and productive in your practice, we’re taking extra care during the month of September to show you how much we appreciate you!
Ten years ago, the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana opened its doors in Indianapolis to help Hoosier tenants and homeowners keep their anchors. The small agency, which covers an area of 24 counties and 2.5 million people, educates, advocates and enforces the laws and regulations that prohibit housing discrimination.
Declaring Indiana’s new abortion ban violates the state constitution’s right to privacy, the ACLU of Indiana along with Planned Parenthood Federation of America and other reproductive rights organizations have filed a lawsuit to block the new law from taking effect Sept. 15.
A man arguing his probation should end three years earlier than the date listed in the system has failed to secure relief from the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
Skeletal remains found nearly 40 years ago in rural northeast Tennessee have been identified as those of a missing Indiana girl, authorities said Tuesday.
A Cass County man convicted of multiple felonies after police responded to a report of a possible robbery at his home has secured a reversal from the Indiana Supreme Court after convincing the justices his Pirtle rights were violated during a police search. However, one justice, while concurring, suggested the high court take another look at Pirtle in the future.
Although the Gary Housing Authority can proceed with its administrative taking of privately owned property, the property owner will get a chance to make its case for damages after the Indiana Supreme Court ordered the entry of summary judgment for the owner as well as a damages hearing.
The former president of a company that manufactured animal and pet products has failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that along with being an executive at the company, he also held an ownership stake.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Lockerbie Glove Company Town Home Owner’s Association, Inc., Elliot J. Serena Androphy, Cherri D. Hobgood, Sashwati Roy, Chandan K. Sen, and Brian Edward West v. Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission, Daniel C. Jacobs, and The Athenaeum Foundation, Inc.
22A-PL-204
Civil plenary. Affirms the Marion Superior Court’s grant of a motion for judgment on the pleadings on the basis of lack of standing by six residents challenging the construction of a retail, residential and parking project known as Block 20 in the Lockerbie Square Historic District in Marion County. Finds the appellants lack the necessary standing, so the trial court did not err in granting the motion for judgment on the pleadings filed by the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission, Daniel C. Jacobs and The Athenaeum Foundation Inc.
Continued attempts to halt the construction of a parking lot and retail center in a historic Indianapolis district by a collection of nearby homeowners has been bulldozed after the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled the residents lacked standing when they failed to allege injury as a result of the project.
With new state laws and court challenges popping up on what seems like a daily basis, some women are traveling state lines to get abortions.
Indiana taxpayers were out close to a quarter-million dollars for a special legislative session that saw the passage of a near-total ban all abortions in the state, as well as a deal providing wraparound social services and inflation relief.
Before three Dutch soldiers were shot, one fatally, in downtown Indianapolis, they were training in a southern Indiana military camp where international soldiers enter highly specialized urban combat simulations they might not be able to get in their own country.
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John R. Lausch Jr. provided an update on the work of the cross-jurisdictional Firearms Trafficking Strike Force last week, which noted 30 individuals are facing charges in Indiana — more than any other state participating in the effort.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
David Bugay, et al. v. Jeffrey DeBoy, et al. (mem. dec.)
21A-PL-01667
Civil Plenary. Affirms the Tippecanoe Circuit Court’s judgment in favor of Jeffrey DeBoy and JBC Buildings, Inc. against David Bugay and Rolling Maul, LLC, for $139,601.98. Finds the trial court did not err when it declined to decrease DeBoy’s unjust enrichment award based on construction defects because Bugay had settled his defects crossclaim for $150,000 and dismissed that crossclaim with prejudice. Rules the trial court did not err when it refused to award DeBoy monies for disgorgement of profits from Legacy Sports Club.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied an Eritrea immigrant’s attempt to become a naturalized citizen, holding he had waived his arguments at the appellate level because he focused on the procedure for processing his application rather than on the merits of his claim.
A senior judge has resigned from his appointment as a temporary judge in Hancock County after a month on the job.
More than a dozen Indiana lawyers, judges and law professors performed on stage at the Indianapolis Bar Foundation’s first “IndyBar’s Got Talent” event Saturday evening.