Indiana Supreme Court justices granted transfer to a case involving an insurance company that made negligence and spoilation claims against a company hired for renovation work after a house fire.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer to two cases last week, one involving a divorce dispute and another involving a juvenile’s commitment to the Department of Correction.
Indiana Supreme Court justices granted transfer to two cases for the week ending Aug. 25, including one in which the Court of Appeals of Indiana declined to address a pro se litigant’s challenge to the constitutionality of a vehicle search.
A woman who pleaded guilty to felony dealing in methamphetamine did not knowingly or voluntarily waive her constitutional right to appeal her 48-year sentence, Indiana Chief Justice Loretta Rush wrote in a dissenting opinion to the high court’s decision to deny transfer to the case.
The Indiana Supreme Court denied transfer to 22 cases for the week ending July 28, with the justices splitting in six denials. No cases were granted transfer.
Indiana Supreme Court justices granted transfer to three cases for the week ending July 14, including a case involving two restaurants accused of overserving a man who later killed another driver in a vehicle crash.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer to three cases for the week ending June 30, including one involving a a pool company that, according to the Court of Appeals of Indiana’s judgment, didn’t properly file a motion to set aside default judgment.
Guilty pleas have the same preclusive effect as trial verdicts, a split Indiana Supreme Court ruled in affirming a trial court’s decision to enter summary judgment for mental health providers sued by a man who pleaded guilty but mentally ill to voluntary manslaughter.
A school corporation’s contract with a company for access to a wind turbine represented an unauthorized investment under Indiana law and was void and unenforceable, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled in affirming a trial court’s granting of summary judgment.
Indiana justices granted transfer to two cases for the week ending June 23, including one that involves Duke Energy’s nearly $2 billion economic development plan.
Indiana Supreme Court justices denied 16 transfer petitions for the week ending June 9. There were no transfers granted.
The Indiana Supreme Court has granted transfer to two cases involving Duke Energy, including one in which the company challenged the city of Noblesville’s jurisdiction to regulate its activities.
After holding oral arguments May 17, a split Indiana Supreme Court issued an order revoking transfer and reinstating precedent holding that an “inactive” car registration should not be conflated with an “expired” registration.
A split Indiana Supreme Court denied transfer in an adoption case after hearing oral arguments in March.
Indiana Supreme Court justices denied transfer to all 19 petitions for the week ending May 12.
The Indiana Supreme Court will not consider two cases involving transgender children whose parents’ petitions to change their gender markers on their birth certificates were denied.
Indiana Supreme Court justices granted transfer to three cases last week, including one involving a patient who sued a hospital network for sharing her diagnosis with the wrong person.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer to two cases out of 22 last week, including a medical malpractice case and a juvenile delinquency adjudication voided by the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
Indiana Chief Justice Loretta Rush has penned a dissent to the denial of transfer to a case involving a woman convicted of resisting law enforcement, writing that the case would be an opportunity to clarify what it means to “forcibly” resist law enforcement.
Indiana Supreme Court justices have granted transfer to a case involving an inmate who alleged medical malpractice at the Department of Correction facility where he was incarcerated.