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The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed that the owner of a building leased to a Bloomington pet shop that was destroyed by a fire in 2008 is only entitled to the actual cash value of the building and not the replacement cost.
The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the arbitrator in a contentious divorce proceeding erred when she ordered the husband to pay $95,000 in attorney fees to his ex-wife.
The total number of bankruptcy cases filed in federal courts for the fiscal year 2014 dropped 13 percent as compared with FY 2013, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts announced Wednesday. This is the lowest number of bankruptcy filings for any 12-month period since 2007.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Joel McGee v. State of Indiana (NFP)
29A02-1406-CR-413
Criminal. Affirms order revoking probation and reinstating 365 days of McGee’s previously suspended sentence.
Mauricio Reyes-Flores v. State of Indiana (NFP)
49A02-1404-CR-275
Criminal. Affirms conviction of Class A misdemeanor invasion of privacy.
Auto-Owners Insurance Company v. Edward Foster (NFP)
18A05-1403-PL-107
Civil plenary. Affirms judgment that Bill Gaddis Chrysler Dodge’s insurer, Auto-Owners Insurance Co., has a duty to defend and indemnify the dealership in a personal injury accident involving a car it owned.
Alvin Donald Grisby v. State of Indiana (NFP)
82A04-1402-CR-68
Criminal. Affirms conviction of Class B felony conspiracy to commit dealing in methamphetamine.
Brent Wroblewski and Gretchen Wroblewski v. Angelo G. Valle (NFP)
45A03-1404-CT-137
Civil tort. Affirms judgment entered on the jury’s verdict in favor of Valle on the Wroblewskis’ lawsuit against him alleging negligence and loss of consortium following an auto accident.
James M. Burton v. State of Indiana (NFP)
02A03-1403-CR-98
Criminal. Affirms convictions of two counts of Class A felony child molesting and 40-year aggregate sentence.
Jeremy J. Turner v. State of Indiana (NFP)
90A02-1403-CR-222
Criminal. Affirms sentence following guilty plea to Class B felony dealing in methamphetamine.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Marshall G. Welton v. Shani J. Anderson, et al.
13-3336
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division, Judge Jane E. Magnus-Stinson.
Civil. Affirms dismissal of Welton’s claims of malicious prosecution, violations of the Fourth and 14th amendments and state law violations. Welton failed to state a predicate constitutional violation in support of his malicious prosecution claim and failed to show the requisite malice.
State correction officials say an Indiana man who fatally stabbed and shot a fellow Purdue University student earlier this year has been found dead in his prison cell.
Nineteen new lawsuits and a complaint with the Indiana Attorney General's Office have been filed against three northwestern Indiana cardiologists and a hospital, alleging that open-heart surgeries and other procedures were performed unnecessarily, lawyers said Tuesday.
A 43-year-old former Marine who police in Indiana say has confessed to killing seven women is scheduled to appear in court again after refusing to even acknowledge his name at an earlier hearing.
The chairman of the state Senate Judiciary Committee says Indiana needs stronger penalties for decapitation.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Harry H. Robertson v. State of Indiana (NFP)
82A01-1405-CR-231
Criminal. Reverses denial of petition for post-conviction relief and remands with instructions.
Antonio Manuel v. State of Indiana (NFP)
49A04-1402-CR-73
Criminal. Affirms conviction of Class B misdemeanor public intoxication.
Remington Diaz v. State of Indiana (NFP)
84A01-1403-CR-149
Criminal. Affirms order revoking probation and requiring Diaz to serve the balance of his previously suspended sentences under two different causes in the Department of Correction.
In Re the Marriage of Reba M. Dunagan and Joseph Dunagan, Joseph Dunagan v. Reba Michele Dunagan (Clinkenbeard) (NFP)
84A01-1312-DR-541
Domestic relation. Affirms order regarding multiple petitions filed by both parties related to child support, including finding father in contempt.
Good Earth Natural Foods, and Patrick Skowronek v. Metropolitan Development Commission, City of Indianapolis and Broad Ripple Associates, LLC (NFP)
49A04-1403-PL-120
Civil plenary. Affirms dismissal of complaint filed by remonstrators seeking judicial review of a zoning decision.
Jeffrey R. Hill v. State of Indiana (NFP)
20A03-1404-CR-132
Criminal. Affirms 120-year sentence following guilty plea to Class A felony robbery, Class A felony burglary, Class B felony conspiracy to commit burglary, and Class B felony criminal confinement.
In the Matter of the Termination of the Parent-Child Relantionship of : G.B,, D.B., Li.B., C.B., & Z.B., Minor Children and L.B., Father v. The Indiana Department of Child Services (NFP)
47A05-1405-JT-194
Juvenile. Affirms involuntary termination of father’s parental rights.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
United States of America v. Trevor Hinds
13-3543
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, New Albany Division, Judge Tanya Walton Pratt.
Criminal. Affirms two-level sentencing enhancement for production or trafficking under U.S.S. G. 2B1.1(b)(11)(B)(i). Hinds’ crime involved the production of counterfeit access devices (credit cards) and the court did not err in applying the enhancement. Vacates the two special conditions imposed: that Hinds pay a portion of the court-ordered substance abuse treatment and drug testing and that he submit to suspicionless searches and seizures. The court did not make a finding whether Hinds could pay for the testing, and the government concedes that the search and seizure condition is unlawfully broad and invasive.
The Indiana Court of Appeals, after skirting around the issue in 2012, decided that Indiana should use the case-by-case approach to address subrogation claims of landlords’ insurers against negligent tenants.
The Indiana Court of Appeals found I.C. 31-19-11-1(c) to be unconstitutional as applied and upheld the adoption of two boys by their maternal grandmother. The judges held that her 1997 felony conviction for neglect of a dependent should not automatically bar her from adopting the children.
Even though a man’s possession of child pornography charge was eventually dismissed, his arrest on the matter at a Bloomington library led to other charges. The Court of Appeals Tuesday affirmed the denial of Paul Allen Decker’s motion to suppress, in which he claimed any evidence stemming from that arrest must be suppressed.
The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a man’s 60-year sentence for shooting and killing his girlfriend after an argument, rejecting his claim that a special prosecutor should have been appointed in his case after his defense counsel took a job with the prosecutor’s office.
The Indiana Court of Appeals dismissed a case in which the trial court set aside a previous judgment in order to have a chance to get a new appeal. When doing so, the trial court noted, “hopefully the Court of Appeals wouldn’t frown upon” the judge who did that.
The government conceded that a man convicted for using fraudulently produced credit cards should not be subjected to suspicionless searches and seizures by authorities, so the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that condition of his supervised release.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the lower court that the U.S. Department of Education’s counterclaim for loan repayment, filed in a man’s lawsuit seeking to not have to repay his student loans, is not barred.
A man running as an independent for an Indiana House seat faces charges that he stalked the district's current representative.
Texas prosecutors may not have offered a suspected serial killer such a lenient prison sentence in a 2009 sexual assault case had they known about his conviction on a similar charge in Indiana five years earlier, a district attorney's spokesman said Monday.