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The Indiana Supreme Court approved amendments to both the Indiana Rules of Appellate Procedure and Indiana Rules for Access to Court Records earlier this month.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has agreed to defer its attempt to get hundreds of pages of records from the Trump administration, holding off at the request of the Biden White House.
When it comes to pushing for state tax cuts and limits on employer vaccine mandates, Republicans in the Indiana House of Representatives are taking the lead. IBJ asked the top House Republican, Speaker Todd Huston of Fishers, why his caucus has put these issues at the top of its agenda and why it has been more aggressive than Senate Republicans in its pursuit.
The Marion County coroner’s office budget has been strained from deaths from COVID-19, drug overdoses and rising homicides in Indianapolis.
A former Purdue University assistant professor who sued her then-supervisor after he allegedly retaliated against her when she rejected what she claimed were his sexual advances has partially secured a reversal from the Court of Appeals of Indiana on the dismissal of her claims.
The Patachou restaurants in Indianapolis and Carmel will not be able to recoup their financial losses from the COVID-19 shutdown in the spring of 2020 after a federal court found the insurance policy they held only reimbursed for damage to the actual brick and mortar structures.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Kim M. Lloyd v. Lawrence Kuznar and Trustees of Purdue University
21A-CT-1338
Civil tort. Affirms the Allen Superior Court’s denial of Kim Lloyd’s Trial Rule 60(B) motion to the extent it sought to set aside the dismissal of her complaint against Lawrence Kuznar and Trustees of Purdue University. Finds Lloyd cannot revive her claims because she stopped participating in the litigation and failed to keep the trial court apprised of her address, which resulted in their dismissal. Finds the trial court erred in denying Lloyd’s Trial Rule 60(B) motion with respect to the default judgment entered against her on Kuznar’s counterclaim and reverses on that portion. Remands for further proceedings.
A woman has pleaded guilty to attempted robbery in connection with the fatal April shootings of two women in Fort Wayne.
United States attorneys for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana collectively brought in more than $10 million in criminal and civil actions during fiscal year 2021.
With a big boost from what is possibly the largest influx of financial support it has ever received, the Indiana Bar Foundation is preparing to use a $13.1 million grant from the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority to launch a series of initiatives to help guide Hoosiers facing housing problems through the civil legal system.
U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation recommendations for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine.
President Joe Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law Monday, authorizing $768.2 billion in military spending, including a 2.7% pay raise for service members, for 2022.
A former town marshal charged in the September shooting of a southwest Indiana sheriff’s deputy has died after being hospitalized with COVID-19.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Kelly Holland v. Tammy M. Ketcham and Jason W. Ketcham
21A-CT-1708
Civil tort. Reverses the Lawrence Circuit Court’s entry of judgment for Tammy and Jason Ketcham against Kelly Holland in his lawsuit filed under Indiana’s Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act on grounds that Tammy had transferred her cash assets of $200,000 into a real property in an attempt to hinder, delay, or defraud Holland as the judgment creditor under their dissolution decree. Concludes that Tammy had the actual intent to hinder, delay, or defraud Holland as her judgment creditor under the dissolution decree. Also finds Holland has shown that Jason acted in concert with Tammy in the commission of a fraudulent transfer. Remands for further proceedings as to Holland’s remedy.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana has released what it is calling a “substitute opinion” in the dispute between a property owner and the Gary Housing Authority, but while the court clarified one of the issues being reviewed, the outcome remained the same.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana will need to recalculate the restitution owed by an Indiana woman who was convicted of stealing thousands of dollars by creating fake credit cards after the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated its remanded order for a second time.
A moving company failed to exercise a duty of ordinary care to a woman whose belongings were stolen after she was evicted from her home, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled.
A man who accused his ex-wife of purchasing a home to defraud him of money she owed him as a result of their dissolution decree has secured a reversal from the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
The Marion County Judicial Selection Committee will be interviewing 13 individuals, including six magistrates, two deputy prosecutors and a public defender, for the vacancy created by the impending resignation of Marion Superior Judge Mark Jones.
Indiana’s top state elections official has stepped down from her position as the second-ranking officer in the state Republican Party.