Coinciding with the halfway point for the three-year Commercial Courts Pilot Project that faces a pending constitutional challenge, the Indiana Supreme Court has released a report on the six participating courts. More than half the cases were filed in Marion County, and three courts have had 10 or fewer cases filed.
Across the country, business executives, senior attorneys and general counsel consistently view Indiana’s legal climate as among the best for businesses out of all 50 states.
While an Indiana commercial court failed to provide sufficient notice to a worker who was being sued by his former employer that sought to enforce a noncompete agreement, the Indiana Court of Appeals found the worker had waived his argument and affirmed a resulting injunction barring him from a new job at a competing company.
One of the first Indiana Commercial Court cases argued on appeal opened with a hearing-day motion filed Monday in the Indiana Court of Appeals challenging the constitutionality of the state’s year-old pilot docket.
A major Indianapolis law firm must pay three departed partners who sued, a judge has ruled, but it will be up to a judge or jury to determine whether paying the former employees would create a “substantial and material adverse effect” for the law firm partnership, as it has claimed in the case.
A glass industry engineer’s challenge alleges the Indiana commercial court pilot project dockets’ specialized rules violated his due process rights.
One of the first appeals from an Indiana Commercial Court alleges the specialized docket touted as a speedier, more efficient means of resolving complex business disputes operated in secret to keep a glass-industry engineer out of a job in his profession for a year.
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Five of six judges of Indiana’s new commercial courts spoke to about 100 lawyers and corporate counsel Tuesday, urging them to make use of the venues that emphasize collaboration and prompt resolutions.
General counsel, business leaders, lawyers and lawmakers will provide information on commercial courts and e-filing initiatives Tuesday afternoon at a symposium and continuing legal education program offered by the Indiana Supreme Court.
A symposium later this month highlighting the Indiana Supreme Court’s work to modernize the judicial branch will provide information about the state’s new commercial courts and e-filing project.
No ribbon-cuttings heralded the opening of Indiana’s six commercial courts around the state June 1, but lawyers with complex business disputes have found their way to the forums the Supreme Court established as a pilot project.
Indiana’s judiciary has been added to the long list of what makes Indiana so favorable a place to do business.
Indiana will become the 23rd state to adopt commercial courts through a three-year pilot program that will allow most business-related court cases to be fast-tracked through the legal system.
The Indiana Supreme Court has issued an order outlining the interim rules applicable to the courts participating in the three-year Commercial Court Pilot Project, which begins this summer.
Colin Flora writes in response to the recent announcement of the creation of commercial courts in Indiana.
Indiana’s first commercial courts are announced a week after Rush highlights problem-solving approaches in her annual State of the Judiciary address.
Six commercial courts handling specialized dockets of business cases were announced Wednesday in an order of the Indiana Supreme Court.