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Understanding how Indiana courts approach duty, proximate cause and foreseeability is crucial, because these issues often determine whether a property owner is responsible for an injury.
That tide has turned.
Originally established in 2018 as a program under the Indiana Bar Foundation, Indiana Legal Help was designed to offer free and low-cost legal support to Indiana residents with limited access to legal representation.
Attorneys of all generations must eventually face the sometimes dreaded next step in their careers: retirement.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Bruce Mendenhall v. State of Indiana
No. 25A-CR-775
Criminal. Appeal from the Marion Superior Court, Judge Angela Dow Davis. Affirms Mendenhall’s murder conviction and 65-year sentence. Holds the evidence was sufficient to establish Indiana had territorial jurisdiction because a reasonable inference from the evidence was that the victim was killed at an Indianapolis truck stop before Mendenhall drove south on Interstate 65, rather than being kept alive until reaching Kentucky where her remains were later found; also concludes the trial court did not err in admitting evidence obtained during a Tennessee search of Mendenhall’s semi-truck because the Indiana constitutional protections described in Pirtle v. State did not apply where the Tennessee officer obtained consent to search while investigating a Tennessee matter and had no knowledge an Indiana crime was involved. Judge Vaidik authored the opinion. Judges Bradford and Altice concur. Appellant’s attorney: Casey Farrington, Marion County Public Defender Agency. Appellee’s attorneys: Office of the Indiana Attorney General.
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The administration has moved quickly to impose new tariffs, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that that new levies “will result in virtually unchanged tariff revenue in 2026.″
The pressure placed on the third-term Democratic mayor demonstrated what Live Free USA Indiana organizer Josh Riddick describes as “people power.”
Live Nation wants the exhibits disqualified from the trial, saying the messages reflect “off-the-cuff banter, not policy” between two personal friends who do not work together.
Indiana Supreme Court
Steven Norris v. Jennifer Norris
No. 25S-DR-226
Civil. Appeal from the Marion Superior Court, Judge Alicia A. Gooden. Affirms the trial court’s order declining to award damages to an ex-husband who alleged his ex-wife’s failure to pay a joint loan under their divorce settlement harmed his credit. Holds the trial court did not clearly err in finding the claimed damages speculative and unsupported because the husband offered little corroborating evidence linking the unpaid loan to his alleged financial losses. Also holds the trial court lacked jurisdiction to issue a revised order implementing a Court of Appeals opinion while the appeal remained pending and before that opinion was certified, rendering the revised order void. Chief Justice Rush authored the opinion. Justices Massa, Slaughter, Goff, and Molter concur. Appellant’s attorneys: Denise F. Hayden and Jessica S. Lacy, Lacy Law Office, LLC. Appellee’s attorney: Nicole A. Zelin, Pritzke & Davis, LLP.
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In orders this week, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt ruled that Indiana DHS violated the Fair Housing Act, Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act when it attempted to reclassify several nonprofit recovery homes as commercial structures.
The order stems from an ongoing disagreement between the city and Patoka Valley AIDS Community Action Group Inc., a volunteer group that claimed the city’s previous special events ordinance was unconstitutional.
The case, along with two others, has been selected as a bellwether trial, meaning its outcome could impact how thousands of similar lawsuits against social media companies are likely to play out.
The ceremony, administered by Judge James R. Sweeney of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, also served as an early celebration of the U.S.’s 250th birthday.
Mullin’s background and views have faced fresh scrutiny since last week, when Trump said he was nominating him to succeed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem at the end of the month.
The administration opened a trade investigation to examine whether excess industrial capacity and government backing could give foreign manufacturers an unfair advantage over U.S. companies.
Miami Correctional Facility started holding ICE detainees in October, under a two-year agreement with the federal government.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Brandon Lamont French v. State of Indiana
No. 25A-CR-1906
Criminal. Appeal from the Marion Superior Court, Judge Jennifer Prinz Harrison. Reverses French’s five convictions of Class A misdemeanor invasion of privacy and vacates the convictions. Holds the State presented insufficient evidence that French violated the no-contact order because the order prohibited contact with the victim only “while released from custody pending trial,” and all alleged contacts occurred while French was incarcerated in the Marion County Jail. Concludes that although French communicated with the victim through electronic messages, phone calls and intermediaries while jailed, those actions did not violate the express terms of the order. Judge May authored the opinion. Judges Felix and Weissmann concur. Appellant’s attorney: Peter Laramore. Appellee’s attorneys: Office of the Indiana Attorney General.
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The Pentagon’s action “forces government contractors to comply with vague and ill-defined directions that have never before been publicly wielded against a U.S. company,” Microsoft’s legal brief says.
The Justice Department announcement was immediately met with strong criticism from multiple states.
A North Manchester-based company is suing the Wabash County Board of Commissioners, arguing that an ordinance passed last summer regarding is preempted by the state’s carbon capture and sequestration statute.
