The Indiana Civil Rights Commission has jurisdiction in a racial discrimination claim brought by a former basketball player against Cardinal Ritter High School, but the ICRC dropped the ball in the case, the Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
The Indiana Court of Appeals Friday affirmed summary judgment in favor of health care providers in a lawsuit brought by a woman claiming doctors did not obtain informed consent before performing a hysterectomy.
A Grant County trial court abused its discretion in ordering the appointment of guardians for two children, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Friday, reversing a guardianship order and instructing the trial court to reunite the children with their mother.
A bicycle rider convicted by a jury of resisting law enforcement lost his appeal Friday on his argument that he had no duty to stop after an Indianapolis police officer tripped his siren and followed him in his cruiser.
Taxi drivers who had their licenses seized by police officers from the Town of Speedway after the 2013 Indianapolis 500 will be receiving a few hundred dollars for their trouble as a result of a settlement of their federal lawsuit.
The NCAA and 11 conferences that have played major college football in recent years have filed a motion to dismiss two antitrust lawsuits that accuse the association of illegally capping compensation to athletes.
A federal magistrate has approved class-action status for a lawsuit accusing southern Indiana officials of violating the civil rights of dozens of drug court participants.
A federal appeals court in Chicago has upheld all but two of the 25 felony convictions for Tim Durham and two other Fair Finance Co. executives found guilty two years ago of carrying out a $200 million Ponzi scheme.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed federal court rulings in Indiana and Wisconsin invalidating the states’ prohibitions of same-sex marriage.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Shawnee Wilson v. State of Indiana (NFP)
49A05-1401-CR-13
Criminal. Affirms two convictions of Class D felony neglect of a dependent
David J. Heineman v. State of Indiana (NFP)
02A03-1310-CR-409
Criminal. Affirms convictions of dealing in methamphetamine, a Class A felony; possession of methamphetamine, a Class B felony; possession of chemical reagents or precursors with intent to manufacture, a Class C felony; possession of a controlled substance, a Class D felony; maintaining a common nuisance, a Class D felony; and possession of paraphernalia, a Class A misdemeanor.
Marcus J. Schneider v. State of Indiana (NFP)
52A02-1402-CR-117
Criminal. Affirms sentence following guilty plea to Class D felony residential entry and admission to being a habitual offender. Remands for correction of the sentencing statement.
Kevin I. Colon, Sr. v. State of Indiana (NFP)
90A04-1403-CR-142
Criminal. Affirms sentence following guilty plea to Class B felony dealing in methamphetamine.
In the Matter of the Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship of I.T., S.T., and W.T., minor children, and C.T., Mother, and W.T., Father, et al. v. Indiana Department of Child Services (NFP)
54A01-1402-JT-84
Juvenile. Affirms termination of parental rights.
Markus Burton v. State of Indiana (NFP)
71A04-1402-CR-92
Criminal. Affirms conviction of Class B felony burglary.
In the Matter of the Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship of D.B., Minor Child, and K.S., Mother, K.S. v. Indiana Department of Child Services, et al. (NFP)
45A04-1401-JT-25
Juvenile. Affirms termination of parental rights.
Jeremy Hall v. State of Indiana (NFP)
48A02-1402-CR-134
Criminal. Affirms conviction for failure to return to lawful detention, a Class D felony.
Bradley Cochran v. State of Indiana (NFP)
49A05-1312-CR-601
Criminal. Affirms convictions of Class A misdemeanor driving while suspended and Class D felony operating a vehicle while intoxicated, as well as adjudication as a habitual substance offender.
Robert Mular v. State of Indiana (NFP)
49A02-1311-CR-947
Criminal. Affirms conviction of Class A misdemeanor operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Dolen Glenn v. Indiana Department of Correction (NFP)
77A01-1401-SC-25
Small claim. Affirms judgment in DOC’s favor regarding property confiscated from Glenn.
Indiana Supreme Court
TP Orthodontics, Inc., Christopher Kesling, DDS, MS, Adam Kesling, and Emily Kesling, et al. v. Andrew Kesling, Individually and as Trustee of the Andrew C. Kesling Trust Dated March 28, 2001 et al.
46S03-1405-MI-337
Miscellaneous. Finds the trial court abused its discretion in ordering disclosure of the full special litigation committee report, as portions of it containing privileged information cannot be disclosed to the sibling shareholders. Remands to the trial court to conduct an in camera review of the full report to determine whether the designate material is in fact privileged.
A panel on the Indiana Court of Appeals was divided Thursday over whether a man’s Class A felony child molesting conviction should be overturned. The dissenting judge believed any error by the trial court was harmless, so the conviction should stand.
An Indiana Supreme Court decision regarding public intoxication has impacted a decision issued by the Court of Appeals three weeks earlier, but the judges still concluded a woman’s public intoxication conviction cannot stand.
A defendant did not show that he was denied the effective assistance of appellate counsel, so the court correctly denied his petition for post-conviction relief, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled.
A man injured in an accident while riding a motorcycle cannot collect under his insurance policy’s uninsured motorist coverage, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The judges rejected his claim that the exclusion of motorcycles violates public policy.
The Indiana Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a man’s convictions stemming from his alleged use of a stolen credit card at a gas station in Hancock County. But the judges on the panel didn’t agree whether the state’s argument of inevitable discovery is allowed under the Indiana Constitution.
The Indiana Supreme Court tackled two issues of first impression Wednesday in a dispute involving a family business and claims the company president caused a significant decrease in shareholder value.
The Indiana Supreme Court agreed with the Court of Appeals that a bank’s appeal of the termination of two of its trusts must be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. The bank, as trustee, lacked standing to appeal in its representative capacity and did not appeal in its individual capacity.
Indiana’s right-to-work statute is clearly anti-union, one state Supreme Court justice said Thursday, but all five justices seemed dubious of arguments that it violated the state constitution.
The federal government has reached a proposed settlement under which two companies will pay for an estimated $26 million cleanup of lead and arsenic contamination in an East Chicago neighborhood.