Parties urge justices to take med-mal case to provide clarity
A medical malpractice case on petition to transfer before the Indiana Supreme Court had both the appellants and appellees urging the justices Thursday to take their case.
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Justices consider ‘grossly disproportionate’ standard in civil forfeitures
The U.S. Supreme Court established a standard nearly 20 years ago for determining when the punitive nature of a civil forfeiture has surpassed a reasonable limit: if the forfeiture is “grossly disproportionate” to the criminal conduct in question.
Fitness to parent raised in man’s fatal neglect appeal
A man whose 4-month-old son died of malnutrition asked an appeals court to consider whether he was mentally capable of caring for the child while also invoking the jury’s right to question witnesses in contesting his conviction and 37-year sentence.
Northwest Indiana lawyers ready to welcome Supreme Court
When the Indiana Supreme Court arrives in Gary for oral arguments Thursday, the legal community in Northwest Indiana will be offering a special welcome for the justices and in particular, its favorite son, Justice Robert Rucker.
Tax Court returns to IU Maurer for hearing in new CVS case
The Indiana Tax Court will return to Bloomington this week to hear another case involving the Monroe County Assessor and the CVS Corporation.
Justices consider whether arrest after filing can halt expungement
Indiana Supreme Court justices focused on the phrase “upon receipt” in analyzing whether an expungement must be granted to a qualified petitioner. But they also puzzled over whether the Legislature would have intended the second-chance statute to extend to people who have subsequent run-ins with the law.
Supreme Court sets argument at Rucker’s high school
One of Justice Robert Rucker’s final arguments as member of the Indiana Supreme Court will be a Lake County case heard at his high school alma mater in Gary.
COA to hear right-to-work case at IU Maurer
A panel of the Indiana Court of Appeals will hold oral arguments in a case involving Indiana’s controversial right-to-work law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law this week.
Justices question meaning of EBITDA in HHGregg manager bonus case
After a key member of HHGregg’s leadership team died in 2012, his $40 million life insurance policy was paid out to the company and brought that year’s total earnings to $143.5 million. Now, senior managers on the HHGregg team say they should receive bonuses based on the total 2012 earnings, claiming that the life insurance policy propelled the company to an earnings level that warranted extra compensation for their work.
Supreme Court hears Spirited Sales liquor wholesaling case
The fate of Spirited Sales LLC’s liquor wholesaling license is in the hands of the Indiana Supreme Court as the justices consider whether allowing the company to keep its permit would enable its parent company, Monarch Beverage Co., to gain an unlawful monopoly in the alcohol wholesaling business.
Supreme Court to hear HHGregg, managers’ incentive fight
The Indiana Supreme Court will hear a case Feb. 23 in which a trial court and the Indiana Court of Appeals reached opposite conclusions about whether key HHGregg managers were entitled to incentive bonuses triggered by the company’s receipt of $40 million from an executive’s life insurance proceeds.
Justices consider life without parole sentence in Richmond Hill appeal
As the Indiana judicial system enters its fifth year of prosecuting individuals involved in the deadly 2012 Richmond Hill home explosion in Indianapolis that killed two and damaged dozens of homes, one of the leading culprits is asking the Indiana Supreme Court to reconsider his sentence for his role in the deaths.
Tax Court to hear arguments at IU Maurer
The Indiana Tax Court is taking its oral arguments on the road and heading to Bloomington this week.
COA considers new allegations in medical malpractice cases
Can parties present evidence or theories at trial that were not presented to the medical review panel?
Justices seek to define ‘indisputably’ in K-9 case
After leading South Bend police officers on a five-minute vehicular chase through city streets, Royce Love eventually stopped his van and was ordered to exit it. Love’s account of what happened next varies significantly from the officers’ account, and that disparity was the main issue the justices of the Indiana Supreme Court sought to resolve when they heard arguments in the case Thursday.
US Supreme Court hears case over deportations
The Obama administration tried to persuade the Supreme Court of the United States Tuesday to retain a federal law that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes.
Justices consider ‘reasonable suspicion’ standard in gun tip case
The Indiana Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday as to whether officers acting on a tip had reasonable suspicion to question and arrest a man in a movie theater lobby for having a gun without a license.
Justices consider cellphone data in 4th Amendment case
Is the act of turning on a cellphone a voluntary agreement to share that data, or do consumers have a right to privacy of the location information collected from their personal devices? The justices of the Indiana Supreme Court heard legal arguments on both sides of that issue during oral arguments in a case on Dec. 8.
Justices weigh cellphone data privacy rights in 4th Amendment case
When people turn on their cellphones, they have a general understanding that some data regarding their whereabouts will be collected. But if a person does not know the extent to which that data is collected, then can the court say that such data was voluntarily released by the person, or is there an expected right to privacy?
Justices consider conversion of felony to misdemeanor after plea agreement
The effect of legislative changes to state sentencing laws was at center in oral arguments before the Indiana Supreme Court Thursday.