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COA upholds $12 garnishment

A Miami Circuit Court did not err in its interpretation of a statute involving garnishment of wages when ruling a company was correctly withholding only $12.17 from an employee, held the Indiana Court of Appeals Wednesday.

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COA extends judicial immunity to arbitrators

The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a real estate broker’s action to vacate an arbitration award
to another broker. In doing so, the appellate court extended judicial and quasi-judicial immunity to arbitrators and their
sponsors.

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Court rules on sex offender status decisions

Tackling the issue of who determines whether a convicted sex offender is considered a “sexually violent predator,”
the Indiana Court of Appeals today issued the latest ruling in a line of cases about the state’s sex offender registry
and how convicts’ names are removed.

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Report issued in UPL claim on trust mill case

The Indiana Supreme Court has never determined whether the money spent during the prosecution of an Unauthorized Practice of Law claim fits into the "costs and expenses incurred by such a hearing" category, which means that a losing party pays under Administrative Disciplinary Rule 24.

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