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Wade Wiley v. United Farm Family Mutual Insurance Company
24A-PL-76
Civil plenary. Affirms the Hancock Superior Court’s entry of summary judgment in favor of United Farm Family Mutual Insurance Company in a declaratory judgment action regarding insurance coverage and the court’s denial of Wade Wiley’s motion for summary judgment. Finds that Jonathan Howard did not have, and knew that he did not have, a valid driver’s license at the time of his accident with Wiley on Sept. 13, 2021. Also finds that because he was not legally entitled to drive, Howard did not have a reasonable belief that he was entitled to operate Amy Smith’s vehicle on a public highway.
In re the Guardianship of Martin Sebastian
23A-GU-3059
Guardianship. Reverses the Jackson Circuit Court’s finding that that reunification with one or both of Martin Sebastian’s parents is not viable due to abuse, neglect, abandonment, or similar basis under Indiana law and that, because Sebastian’s father died a year before he left Guatemala for the United States, his father did not abandon him. Finds that when a parent, having abandoned a child, dies in that state of abandonment, the child’s inability to reunify with that parent is still due to abandonment for purposes of the Special Immigrant Juvenile statute. Remands for further proceedings.
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