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In the Matter of the Parent-Child Relationship of: C.A. (Minor Child), And M.A. (Mother) v. The Indiana Department of Child Services (mem. dec.)
54A01-1709-JT-2139
Juvenile termination of parental rights. Affirms the termination of M.M.A.’s parental rights to her child, C.A. Finds the Indiana Department of Child Services presented clear and convincing evidence to support the termination of M.M.A.’s parental rights.
A doctor who treats a woman for complications arising from an abortion would have to report new and more detailed information about the patient to the state, under a bill approved by the Indiana House on Wednesday.
A state board has upheld a ruling that Indiana’s state treasurer wrongly fired her predecessor’s top deputy when she took office in 2014.
The Indiana Legislature has approved a bill to effectively ban the practice of eyeball tattooing. Under the Indiana proposal, tattooists would be prohibited from coloring the whites of an individual's eyes. The bill imposes a fine of up to $10,000 per violation.
The annual holiday giving campaign brought in more joy last year for the Indianapolis Legal Aid Society. The nonprofit received a total $164,068, an increase of roughly $10,000 from the previous year.
A bill meant to codify longstanding sentencing practices related to modification of plea agreements is headed to the governor after it passed the Indiana House of Representatives on Tuesday.
As the Marion County Judicial Selection Committee prepares to conduct its first judicial retention interviews later this month, the committee also has begun accepting applications to fill three upcoming vacancies created by the retirement later this year of judges who will not seeking retention.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb made history Wednesday by signing a new law that will legalize the carryout sale of alcohol on Sundays.
The following Indiana Supreme Court opinion was posted after IL deadline Tuesday:
In the Matter of Robert John Wray
02S00-1511-DI-648
Disciplinary. Suspends Robert John Wray from the practice of law in Indiana for at least nine months without automatic reinstatement. Finds Wray engaged in attorney misconduct arising from his solicitation of clients through a nonlawyer intermediary. Justice Christopher Goff, who was the hearing officer in this discipline case, did not participate.
In a second dispute involving an Indiana business, a New York company, stopped payments and cognovit notes, the Indiana Court of Appeals has again reversed and found in favor of EBF Partners.
The latest development in a longstanding legal battle between two business titans has resulted in a $1.9 million verdict against the leaders of the national hardware store chain Menard, Inc.
The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor of the estate of a man who died in South Bend, lived and worked in Chicago, but considered his principal residence to be his parents’ home.
The Decatur Superior Court must reinstate a default judgment against a local apartment complex and its property manager after the Indiana Court of Appeals found there was no excusable neglect that would justify setting aside the default.
A man’s conviction of possession of a firearm as a serious violent felon was reversed Wednesday by a divided Indiana Court of Appeals, which found his signature on an underlying robbery plea agreement had not been authenticated.
The Indiana Court of Appeals gave a cold reception to a painter’s argument that the Indiana State Fair Board’s power to ban her from art competitions at the annual state fair “chilled” her right to free speech.
The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that defendants who plead guilty to lower-level felony counts of child molesting are not subject to good-time credit restrictions, even if they do not dispute allegations of molestation that would subject them to loss of credit time.
A southern Indiana man’s five-and-a-half-year sentence for his conviction as a habitual vehicular substance offender was affirmed by the Indiana Court of Appeals, which called him “a recidivist drunk driver whose behavior has been undeterred by his prior contacts with the criminal justice system.”
A man convicted of negligence resulting in the death of this 3-month-old son lost his appeal Wednesday, failing to show that a judge erred in revoking his plea agreement before sentencing, which led to a longer sentence when he was convicted after a trial.
A man fleeing an arresting officer slipped in mud that also caused the pursuing policeman to slip and injure himself — evidence the Indiana Court of Appeals found sufficient to support the man’s conviction of felony resisting law enforcement.
A Fort Wayne attorney previously disciplined for deceptive marketing practices has been suspended from the practice of law for nine months after he engaged in another unethical scheme to garner more clients.