Plaintiffs assert the defendants are pursuing litigation to retaliate and deter the Hoosier Environmental Council from helping residents of rural communities push back against “the powerful livestock industry” and protect themselves from the pollution caused by factory farms.
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A protracted dispute between a concentrated animal feeding operation in Hendricks County and its neighbors ended Monday with the U.S. Supreme Court denying certiorari to the nearby homeowners who claimed the odor from the 8,000 hogs disrupted their lives and diminished their health.
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Hendricks County families who live with the odor from a nearby 8,000-hog farm for years have lost their nuisance, negligence and trespass claims against the concentrated animal feeding operation. After unsuccessfully seeking relief from the Indiana Court of Appeals and a divided Indiana Supreme Court, they are now turning to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Despite an improper jury instruction, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has upheld murder and attempted robbery convictions in a case involving a drug deal turned deadly.
The Court of Appeals has declined to overturn a man’s methamphetamine-related convictions, rejecting the man’s argument that the search of his vehicle violated his constitutional rights.
Addressing a child support dispute for the second time on appeal, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has rejected a father’s argument that his disabled daughter’s disability benefits should be used to offset his child support obligation.
Two Indiana Department of Child Services case workers and a former director in LaPorte County are facing a federal lawsuit over a 4-year-old who was tortured and killed by his parents, the most recent development in the legal fallout from the child’s death.
A Hendricks Superior Court judge has found the Indiana Department of Child Services in civil contempt for failing to search the emails of its current and former directors in a case involving a 4-year-old who was killed.
The Indiana Department of Child Services produced discovery in a civil case that shows the department’s director received emails about a 4-year-old killed by his parents, but the agency and plaintiff disagree about the implications of the messages.
The Indiana Department of Child Services either can’t find or has failed to produce some documents in a case involving a 4-year-old who was tortured and killed shortly after the department placed him in his parents’ home, a plaintiff’s filing alleges.
A judge has ordered Department of Child Services Director Eric Miller to appear at a hearing next week to make a case for why the department shouldn’t be held in contempt for failing to obey court orders to produce documents in an underlying civil case.
A database readout that was admitted in lieu of a missing breath-test ticket was not hearsay, nor was it a violation of the Indiana Administrative Code, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled in a decision that drew a word of “caution” from the panel.
Finding a grandfather lacked standing to seek grandparent visitation, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has reversed the grant of visitation rights to the grandfather in an adoption case.
A trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting photographic evidence and expert testimony in a case involving a woman who slipped on ice in a Menards parking lot. But the Court of Appeals reversed a multimillion-dollar verdict.
An Indiana man prohibited by state order from traveling to a Florida vacation home during the COVID-19 pandemic had a right to rescind his rental contract, a split Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Wednesday in reversing a small claims court’s decision.
The Indiana Department of Transportation is immune from liability in a case involving a woman killed in a collision at an intersection, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has affirmed.
A student loan recipient sued for breach of contract has failed in her efforts to overturn summary judgment for the loan holder at the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana has reversed and remanded a Hendricks Superior Court order on the division of marital assets and a father’s child support obligation to his special needs adult daughter.
A Mooresville couple requesting a land easement of necessity for easier access to their pole barn will not be granted any such relief from the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
A man who was pulled over for having an “inactive” car registration has convinced a split Court of Appeals of Indiana panel that evidence stemming from the stop should be suppressed.
Although precedent holds that law enforcement needs “reasonable suspicion” to conduct dog sniffs at the front door of private residences, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has found that a dog sniff in a hotel walkway did not violate the Indiana Constitution.
The Indiana Supreme Court has revoked a trio of judge pro tempore appointments as permanent judges take their places on the bench.
The guardian of a man who was injured while working on a movie theater construction project has failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that a subcontractor for AMC Theatres owed the man a duty of care.