COA affirms ruling for lawyer on legal malpractice claim
The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment for a Bloomington lawyer accused of legal malpractice, finding the evidence negated the proximate cause element of the claim.
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Ruling: DOC violating rights of inmates with hepatitis
The Indiana Department of Correction’s failure to provide inmates with recommended hepatitis C treatment violates their constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment, a federal judge ruled Thursday in a groundbreaking order.
Indiana teen charged in suffocation deaths of his 2 siblings
A 14-year-old southeastern Indiana boy charged in the suffocation deaths of his two young siblings told investigators that he killed them so that they wouldn’t “have to live in the hell that he did,” prosecutors allege.
Grand jury indicts 3 ex-sheriff’s employees in payroll case
A grand jury has indicted three former civilian employees of a northern Indiana sheriff’s office who allegedly were compensated for work they didn’t perform.
House speaker: Top GOP lawmaker in critical condition
Indiana’s House speaker said Thursday a top-ranking Republican lawmaker is in critical condition after a motorcycle accident in Michigan. Rep. Tim Brown had been placed in a medically induced coma after the crash.
House Ways and Means chairman in coma after motorcycle crash
A top Indiana lawmaker was in a medically induced coma Wednesday after being involved in a motorcycle accident in northern Michigan, his traveling companion told Indianapolis Business Journal.
Daleville woman formally charged in son’s hot car death
Prosecutors have filed formal charges against a central Indiana woman who had been drinking and was taking a nap while her 2-year-old son crawled into a hot car and later died.
Volunteers sought to judge mock trial competition at McKinney
Volunteers are needed to judge the upcoming inaugural Indy Mock Hundred mock trial invitational at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
Justices to hear cell location history case in Anderson
The Indiana Supreme Court will travel north to Madison County later this month to hear an oral argument regarding how and when law enforcement may obtain historical cell phone location information in criminal investigations.
Noted attorney to speak at McKinney on ‘foodborne litigation’
An attorney who has represented thousands of people sickened by contaminated food products dating back to the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak will speak at Indiana University McKinney School of Law Thursday.
Terre Haute killer loses appeal to withdraw guilty plea
A man who pleaded guilty to murder last year and was sentenced to 60 years in prison cannot withdraw his plea, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.
7th Circuit: Attempted robbery not violent crime in Indiana
A juvenile accused of robbing a pharmacy might not be tried in federal criminal court because attempted robbery is not considered a violent crime in Indiana, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, vacating the teen’s waiver to be tried as an adult.
Opinions Sept. 12, 2018
The following 7th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion was posted after Indiana Lawyer deadline Tuesday.
United States of America v. D.D.B.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division. Chief Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson.
Criminal. Vacates the waiver of D.D.B. from juvenile to adult court on a robbery charge. Holds that attempted robbery does not satisfy the juvenile waiver requirement of a prior adjudication for a violent crime, because the Indiana attempted robbery statute does not include an intent element. Remands for proceedings.
Ex-Indiana State Police evidence clerk charged with theft
A former Indiana State Police evidence clerk is accused of stealing more than $50,000 from the evidence room at the agency’s Bloomington police post.
Former East Chicago councilman sentenced to 20 years
A former northwestern Indiana city councilman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting a man he owed a drug debt to.
Opinions Sept. 11, 2018
The following 7th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion was posted after Indiana Lawyer deadline Monday.
Berry Plastics Corporation v. Illinois National Insurance Company
17-1815
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Evansville Division. Judge Richard L. Young.
Civil. Affirms the entry of summary judgment for Illinois National on Berry Plastics’ suit seeking indemnity from a $7.2 million jury damages award to a customer to whom Berry supplied defective laminate material used in the manufacture of products that later failed. Finds Berry failed to show that some portion of the lost profits theoretically might be attributable to property damage.
Bolton: International Criminal Court ‘already dead to us’
America’s long-running reluctant relationship with the International Criminal Court came to a crashing halt as decades of U.S. suspicions about the tribunal and its global jurisdiction spilled into open hostility, amid threats of sanctions if it investigates U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
DCS case featuring sex with case manager reversed
Indiana trial courts and the Department of Child Services have once again been chastised for denying due process rights in a termination of parental rights case in which a DCS case manager had a sexual relationship with a case client.
Ruling for insurer in Evansville firm’s $7.2M indemnity suit upheld
An Evansville-based plastic supplier’s insurer is not required to indemnify the company against a $7.2 million jury award for producing a defective product, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Monday.
Mental health, diversity may become required CLE
Lawyers soon could be required to earn continuing legal education credits in the areas of diversity and inclusion and mental health and wellness under a proposal the Indiana State Bar Association House of Delegates will consider next month.