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A total of 246 lawyers face suspension from practicing law in Indiana for unpaid dues, violations of Interest on Lawyer Trust Account rules or failure to comply with continuing legal education requirements, the Indiana Supreme Court announced Tuesday.
Thursday’s opinions
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Five Star Roofing Systems, Inc. D/B/A Five Star Commercial Roofing Systems Inc. v. Armored Guard Window & Door Group, Inc. D/B/A Pendleton Enterprises, Inc.
21A-PL-1964
Civil plenary. Affirms the grant of summary judgment, damages, and attorney fees in favor of Armored Guard Window & Door Group, Inc., doing business as Pendleton Enterprises, Inc. against Five Star Roofing Systems, Inc. Reverses the award of prejudgment interest with respect to the date the prejudgment interest began to accrue. Remands with instructions for the court to determine the appropriate amount of interest from Feb. 9, 2016.
Days after a Muncie man was arrested for threatening to shoot Delaware County judges, a different Muncie man was sentenced for intimidation after saying he would “blow up” a juvenile magistrate judge’s house if she didn’t rule in his favor.
Gov. Eric Holcomb announced a plan on Thursday to call a special legislative session at the end of June and propose that $1 billion in state reserves be returned to Indiana taxpayers.
With never-seen video, new audio and a mass of evidence, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will attempt to show the “harrowing story” not only of the day’s deadly violence that erupted that day but also the chilling backstory as the defeated president, Donald Trump, tried to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory. Thursday’s prime-time hearing will open with eyewitness testimony from the […]
The House passed a wide-ranging gun control bill Wednesday in response to recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, that would raise the age limit for purchasing a semi-automatic rifle and prohibit the sale of ammunition magazines with a capacity of more than 15 rounds.
A grand jury has indicted a federal inmate in the 2019 stabbing death of an inmate at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute.
The death of a 1-year-old Fort Wayne girl from a fentanyl overdose last year has been ruled a homicide, a coroner said Wednesday.
A family of jail birds has left behind a nearly $3,000 mess at the historic Steuben County Jail in northeastern Indiana.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Geist Lake Forest Property Owners’ Association, Inc. v. Taso’s Toys, LLC; Taso’s Toys, LLC v. Geist Lake Forest Property Owners’ Association, Inc., and RREF II RB-IN VM, LLC
21A-PL-2021
Civil Plenary. Affirms the Hamilton Superior Court’s finding that 2007 declaration of covenants, conditions and restrictions of Geist Lake Forest Subdivision was valid. Finds the Geist Lake Forest Property Owners’ Association and RREF II RB-IN VM LLC, were entitled to summary judgment as a matter of law that the association was validly formed. Holds the first amendment to the declaration did not exempt the lot owned by TT, an Indiana limited liability company, from the declaration’s requirements and that the non-residential building on TT’s property violated the declaration.
A group of homeowners argued that their feud with the developer of their subdivision put an issue of first impression before the Court of Appeals of Indiana, but the appellate panel ruled it did not have to rule on the larger issue because of the “clear and unambiguous language” of the declaration governing the use of the homeowners’ properties.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana has affirmed the denial of summary judgment requests from both an Indiana roof contractor and a certified class over disputes stemming from a breach of contract case, finding genuine issues of material fact exist as to whether their contract is null and void.
A couple who constructed a pole barn on their property without first getting approval from their homeowners association failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that the trial court erred in granting the HOA summary judgment.
Every city, town and county in Indiana is now participating in the $507 million opioid settlement with major pharmaceutical distributors and manufacturers, the Indiana Attorney General’s Office announced Wednesday.
The Supreme Court said Wednesday that an armed man who made threats against Justice Brett Kavanaugh was arrested near the justice’s house in Maryland.
The former president of Franklin College has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading no contest to child enticement and other charges following his arrest in a Wisconsin sex crime sting.
Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and dozens of other women who say they were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar are seeking more than $1 billion from the FBI for failing to stop the sports doctor when the agency first received allegations against him, lawyers said Wednesday.
A former eastern Indiana mayor has been released from a federal prison with more than six months remaining on his one-year term after pleading guilty to taking a bribe.
What’s the difference between spoofing and impersonation? These terms are often used interchangeably, but they really are not quite the same.
With allegations that individuals deemed incompetent to stand trial are being left to languish in Indiana’s county jails, a federal lawsuit filed in May by Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services is bringing renewed attention to the treatment of mentally ill inmates in the state’s criminal justice system.