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Indiana’s federal courts, as well as the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, provide substantial and important practice resources, guidance and forms on their websites. Practitioners should peruse the sites periodically, and in particular with each new case, to see the latest local rules, forms, and practice requirements before the assigned judges.
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The DTCI is honored to announce the 2020 outstanding defense lawyers of the year.
Manufacturers operating in an international market must be prepared to defend their products in any venue. Risk assessment and hazard analysis is a “prepackaged” tool the manufacturer can use in defending product liability lawsuits; it shows how the manufacturer considered and accounted for risk at every stage of the design process.
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A grand jury has declined to indict an Indianapolis police officer who fatally shot a man in May during a foot chase after police said the 21-year-old exchanged gunfire with the officer.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Pines of Greenwood, LLC and Arbor Homes, LLC v. The Village Pines at the Pines of Greenwood Homeowners’ Association, Inc. (mem. dec.)
20A-PL-373
Civil plenary. Affirms and reverses in part the Johnson Superior Court’s determination that The Village Pines at the Pines of Greenwood Homeowners’ Association incurred damages of more than $1 million. Finds dues are owed to the HOA, and the HOA is the party that has been damaged by Pines of Greenwood LLC and Arbor Homes LLC failing to pay assessments on unsold lots. Also finds that the trial court’s order on damages does not make clear how it arrived at the amount due and remands to either clarify how the court arrived at the amount ordered or correct the amount due for unpaid assessments. Finally, reverses the interest award and vacates the award of late fees, and remands for the trial court to recalculate interest and apply an 8% rate starting in November 2011.
How should federal judges decide whether sentences in federal prosecutions should run consecutively to or concurrently with sentences in unrelated state prosecutions? The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals tackled that question in a Monday decision, affirming a man’s decades-long sentence for his part in a South Bend kidnapping.
Three Marion County magistrates have been appointed to fill vacancies that will open next year on the Marion Superior Court bench, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has announced.
A settlement exceeding $66 million has been announced in favor of more than 260 patients who claimed they were the victims of malpractice at the hands of a northwest Indiana doctor who allegedly performed unnecessary cardiac procedures and device implantations.
Barnes & Thornburg attorneys in South Bend are moving into their new office building in the city’s downtown and celebrating by boosting their community with a food drive for a local food bank.
An Indiana woman who pleaded guilty to providing financial support to the Islamic State group has been sentenced to 6½ years in prison, the Justice Department said Monday.
The Supreme Court seemed likely Tuesday to leave in place the bulk of the Affordable Care Act, including key protections for pre-existing health conditions and subsidized insurance premiums that affect tens of millions of Americans.
Attorney General William Barr has authorized federal prosecutors across the U.S. to pursue “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities, if they exist, before the 2020 presidential election is certified, despite no evidence of widespread fraud.
President-elect Joe Biden is championing the Obama administration’s signature health law as it goes before the Supreme Court in a case that could overturn it.
Pfizer Inc. said Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine may be a remarkable 90% effective, based on early and incomplete test results that nevertheless brought a big burst of optimism to a world desperate for the means to finally bring the catastrophic outbreak under control.
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday cleared emergency use of an experimental drug from Eli Lilly for people 12 and older with mild or moderate COVID-19 not requiring hospitalization.
President Donald Trump is facing pressure to cooperate with President-elect Joe Biden’s team to ensure a smooth transfer of power when the new administration takes office in January.
Indiana Court of Appeals
John B. Larkin v. State of Indiana
19A-CR-2705
Criminal. Reverses John Larkin’s involuntary manslaughter conviction and two-year sentence. Concludes that the LaPorte Superior Court erred in instructing the jury on involuntary manslaughter. Remands with instructions to enter a judgment of acquittal and order that Larkin be discharged.