AG asks Indiana Supreme Court to hear COVID case against Ball State
The Indiana attorney general wants the Indiana Supreme Court to weigh in on a lawsuit that seeks punitive damages for COVID-related college campus closures.
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Indiana Supreme Court grants transfer to fight over roof repair
A dispute involving a roof repair that led to a breach of contract claim and a counterclaim alleging a violation of the Indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act is headed for the Indiana Supreme Court after the justices granted transfer to the case.
Justices consider whether woman who won $3.2M negligence judgment can sue more defendants
Indiana Supreme Court justices must decide whether a woman who won $3.24 million in a personal injury case can sue additional defendants for their alleged roles in the same auto accident.
IN justices grant transfer in murder-mental health case
A case concerning a man with serious mental health issues who went to prison after he killed his grandfather and sued the hospital he was getting treatment from will go before the Indiana Supreme Court.
Flooding dispute headed to IN Supreme Court
A dispute between a Montgomery County couple, the town of Linden and multiple county departments over whether drainage improvements resulted in a permanent physical invasion of their land will go before the Indiana Supreme Court.
IN Supreme Court accepts jurisdiction over abortion ban suit, sets arguments for January
The fight over the lawfulness of Indiana’s new near-total abortion ban is heading to the state’s highest court, which won’t hear arguments regarding the law until the new year.
IN justices consider transfer in remote commitment case
The Indiana Supreme Court heard arguments in a commitment case about whether a trial court wrongly denied a woman’s request to have her case heard in person during the COVID-19 pandemic – and whether it provided the necessary good cause as to why she couldn’t.
IN Supreme Court to hold oral arguments at Mitchell Opera House
Attorneys scheduled to appear before the Indiana Supreme Court on Oct. 26 are warming up their pipes as they prepare to argue before the court at the Mitchell Opera House when the justices take their work on the road.
Justices split in denying transfer to university COVID breach complaint
Students who sued Indiana University and Purdue University alleging breaches of contract when the schools moved to online learning can continue with their case after the Indiana Supreme Court denied the universities’ petition for transfer.
Supreme Court accepts case raising questions of collateral estoppel and claim splitting
A unanimous Indiana Supreme Court has granted transfer to a personal injury case brought by a severely and permanently injured woman which is raising questions of whether subsequent litigation can be filed against a group of defendants when other defendants have already been held liable.
New 5-member Indiana Supreme Court to hear first oral arguments with Molter
The new five-member Indiana Supreme Court will hear its first oral arguments together this week, as its most recently added member, Justice Derek Molter, takes the place of retired Justice Steven David on the bench.
Indiana justices take murder case overturned by COA
The justices voted to grant transfer to Marquis David Young v. State of Indiana, 21A-CR-1125, a 2020 murder case from Lake Superior Court. Also, the justices voted to hear a dispute over an arbitration provision in a customer contract and a case involving property damage caused by a sewage overflow.
Justice David urges courts to do more to ensure defendants understand plea agreements
In a pair of opinions dissenting from the Indiana Supreme Court’s denial of transfer to two cases involving plea deals, Justice Steven David asserted the records are “simply inadequate” to show that the defendants knowingly and voluntarily waived their rights to appeal.
Justices grant transfer to waterlogged tenants’ dispute
After being buoyed by a win in the trial court then sunk by a reversal from an appellate panel, a group of Indianapolis businesses that sued after a sprinkler system broke and flooded their offices will be able to float their arguments again since the Indiana Supreme Court has granted transfer of their case.
Rokita encourages IN Supreme Court to take birth certificate gender marker case
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is advocating for the Indiana Supreme Court to grant transfer to a case concerning transgender Hoosiers’ birth certificates, requesting justices clear up confusion on the matter by ruling the judiciary has no authority to order a change of “sex” on the legal documents.
Justices decline to hear IRT’s COVID coverage case but agree to revisit criminal case decisions
The Indiana Supreme Court has brought the curtain down on the Indiana Repertory Theatre’s push to get its insurance company to cover losses incurred when the pandemic forced the show to close in the spring of 2020.
Justices grant transfer to 1, deny 28 other cases
Indiana Supreme Court justices granted transfer to only one case among 28 others, agreeing to hear a dispute involving a traveling actor’s attempts to receive CARES Act benefits in Indiana.
Justices split on whether unruly defendants must be told they can return to court if they behave
A split Indiana Supreme Court has denied transfer in a case involving an unruly defendant, disagreeing on whether trial courts are required to inform disruptive individuals who have been removed from the courtroom that they can reclaim their right to be present if they behave.
Transfer granted in six child sex abuse deposition cases
Indiana Supreme Court justices granted transfer in six cases last week all addressing whether child sex abuse victims can be ordered for deposition in light of a state statute the Court of Appeals of Indiana has repeatedly held violates the Indiana Rules of Trial Procedure.
Supreme Court reverses course, denies transfer in dental dispute
The Indiana Supreme Court has decided not to assume jurisdiction and instead reinstated an opinion from the Court of Appeals of Indiana in a dispute between a dentist and her former employer.