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In a major legal setback for President Donald Trump on a high-profile consumer issue, a federal appeals court has ruled that his administration lacks the legal authority to force drug companies to disclose prices in their TV ads.
Valonte Deshoun Smith v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
19A-CR-2333
Criminal. Affirms Valonte Smith’s aggregate 12-year sentence for conviction of Level 3 felony rape. Finds the Madison Circuit Court did not abuse its discretion in denying admission of certain evidence. Finds Smith has failed to meet his burden that the deputy prosecutor committed misconduct and that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in instructing the jury. Also finds sufficient evidence to support the conviction, that Smith did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel and that his sentence is not inappropriate.
A panel of the Indiana Court of Appeals has vacated an order requiring a man to pay more than $300 in probation fees after concluding that it was erroneous for the trial court to accept, post-sentencing, the imposition of such fees based on a probation department memo.
A woman who was found driving in violation of the lifetime forfeiture of her driver’s license could not convince the Indiana Court of Appeals on Wednesday that her sentence was inappropriate.
Hoosiers who have experienced harassment or discrimination because of the COVID-19 pandemic are urged to report those incidents to the U.S. Attorney’s Office Civil Rights Coordinator, U.S. Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced.
A new chief judge has been chosen to lead the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, the court announced Tuesday.
Indianapolis-based Barnes & Thornburg now has a New York address, opening an office in the Big Apple as part of its plan to grow its footprint and expand its corporate, litigation and white collar practices.
Less than a month after a federal court denied a motion to dismiss, the Indiana Department of Child Services is asking the judge to reconsider the original motion as well as review a second motion to dismiss in an attempt to derail a lawsuit alleging the state violated the constitutional rights of children in its care.
The US Supreme Court granted a reprieve Tuesday to a Texas inmate scheduled to die for his conviction of fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago, continuing a more than four-month delay of executions in the nation’s busiest death penalty state during the coronavirus pandemic.
Supreme Court watchers were left scratching their heads when they learned Justice Neil Gorsuch was the author of Monday’s landmark LGBT rights ruling, but not because the appointee of President Donald Trump might have been expected to side with his conservative colleagues in dissent.
A retired sheriff’s deputy and psychiatric patient at a northwest Indiana hospital who were involved in a struggle were both killed when another security guard opened fired on the patient, authorities said Tuesday.
The mother of a black man who was killed by an Indianapolis police officer filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday against the city, its police department and four officers, including the one who fired the fatal shots.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Mary Eve Kassen Moriarty v. Cathereine C. Moriarty, et al.
19A-PL-02342
Civil plenary. Affirms the Hamilton Superior Court’s order entering judgment in favor of daughters Catherine C. Moriarty and Paula A. Bowers against Mary Eve Kassen Moriarty on their claim to reject the probate of the purported last will and testament of William J. Moriarty on the basis of lack of testamentary capacity and/or undue influence and on their claim of tortious interference with inheritance. Finds the trial court did not abuse its discretion by permitting the daughters to reopen their case-in-chief. Finds the trial court’s legal conclusions that the purported will is invalid and its conclusions regarding tortious interference with inheritance are not clearly erroneous.
Lake Superior Court Judge Clarence D. Murray will temporarily step down from his seat on the bench after informing the court that he would be unable to perform the duties of his office due to health reasons.
Two daughters who claimed their father was of unsound mind when he executed a purported will and that his new wife tortiously interfered with their inheritance won a judgment against her from the Indiana Court of Appeals.
Indiana Supreme Court justices have certified a new senior judge to serve in Indiana courts.
The presiding judges of the Lake Circuit and Superior Courts have issued a statement against racism and in support of due process and equal protection.
After a federal court ruling that terminated Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill as a defendant in their lawsuit, the four women who accuse Hill of sexual misconduct say they will “continue their pursuit of all available civil claims” against the AG.
Continuing its fight over parentage, Indiana has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review the appellate court ruling that allowed non-birth mothers in a same-sex marriage to be listed as parents on their children’s birth certificates.
As businesses reopen across the U.S. after coronavirus shutdowns, many are requiring customers and workers to sign forms saying they won’t sue if they catch COVID-19.