A federal offender on supervised release argued that just because he tested positive for meth didn’t mean he had possessed it. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals had a bite-sized, easy-to-digest ruling Tuesday.
A man who was seriously injured in a car crash lost his appeal claiming his Fourth Amendment rights were violated when Fort Wayne hospital staff ordered a blood draw that was provided to police, leading to criminal drunken driving charges.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Andrew Patrick v. Painted Hills Association, Inc.
19A-SC-936
Small claims. Affirms Morgan Superior Court rulings in favor of Painted Hills Association, Inc., seeking to enforce restrictive covenants and collect unpaid dues for 2017 and 2018 against Andrew Patrick, who obtained tax deeds to three unimproved properties in the neighborhood. Holds statutes are unambiguous and the restrictive covenants survive the tax sale. The court did not err in ruling for the association or denying Patrick’s motion to correct error.
The fight over Michigan’s redistricting, litigated in part by a team from the Indianapolis office of Faegre Baker Daniels, ended Monday with an order from the U.S. Supreme Court vacating a lower court’s ruling that gerrymandering based on political affiliation violates the Constitution.
A transgender man who was granted a name change but denied his petition for a gender-marker change won on appeal Tuesday, with the Indiana Court of Appeals finding the trial court lacked sufficient cause to deny the petition.
A Lake County man convicted in a hit-and-run that killed a correctional officer and injured three others in 2012 will not be getting his driver’s license back anytime soon, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
A man convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting his 11-year-old daughter failed to convince the Indiana Court of Appeals that evidence of sexual internet searches he attributed to the victim was wrongly excluded from his trial.
A man who bought Morgan County properties at a tax sale that were subject to a homeowners association failed to convince the Indiana Court of Appeals on Tuesday that he was wrongly ordered to pay delinquent association dues.
The following opinions were posted after IL deadline Friday. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Gai Levy v. Marion county Sheriff, et al.
19-1424
Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division. Chief Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson.
Civil. Affirms grant of Gai Levy’s motion for summary judgment against his claim that the Marion County Sheriff and the Consolidated City of Indianapolis and Marion County violated his constitutional rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for unlawfully detaining him after the Marion Superior Court order his release from jail. Finds the testimony and evidence affirms the district court’s decision that there was no dispute of material fact as to whether the court entered an order for Levy to self-report to Marion County Community Corrections after his first court appearance. Holds that because the Marion County sheriff and the city of Indianapolis tried to implement a fix to overcome a glitch in the release processing system, they did not to act with deliberate indifference to the risk of detainees’ overdetention.
Although the Marion County Sheriff’s remedy failed to fix a glitch between two different computer systems and caused an inmate to be detained longer than the court had ordered, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the law enforcement agency and the city of Indianapolis were not deliberately indifferent.
Deciding an issue of first impression, the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed a favorable ruling for an insurance company following arguments that it had no obligation to defend former customers in outside litigation.
A former high school assistant principal who alleged she was coerced to quit for disagreeing with the school superintendent about a student discipline issue was not denied protected speech or due process, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Robert McAnalley v. State of Indiana
18A-CR-01099
Criminal. Affirms Robert McAnalley’s conviction of Level 4 felony possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon and his guilty plea to a habitual offender enhancement. Finds the admission of handgun evidence did not violate McAnalley’s federal or state constitutional protections. Finds the Marion Superior Court did not abuse its discretion under the circumstances. Judge Cale Bradford concurs in result in a separate opinion.
Immigration lawyers at the Indiana State Bar Association Annual Meeting discussed how Angelo Bobadilla’s misdemeanor convictions led him to immigration court and to a landmark Indiana Supreme Court ineffective assistance of counsel ruling.
A man’s conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon will stand after the Indiana Court of Appeals found a warrantless search of the vehicle he was riding in at the time of his arrest did not violate federal or state constitutional protections.
It’s game over for rapper “The Game’s” 7th Circuit appeal of more than $7 million in damages that a federal jury awarded to a woman he publicly sexually assaulted then trashed on social media.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Kay Kim, et al. v. Village At Eagle Creek Homeowners Association, et al.
19A-SC-00970
Small claims. Reverses the Marion County Small Claims Court’s order dismissing Kay Kim and Charles Chuang’s action against the Village at Eagle Creek Homeowners Association, Inc. and Muhammed and Andleeb Javed. Finds the smalls claims court erred when it dismissed Kim and Chuang’s case for their refusal to attend mediation. Holds that small claims courts may not Remands further proceedings.
A divided Indiana Court of Appeals panel ruled for three aerospace defendants in a negligence case brought by victims of a fatal helicopter crash that took place in Mississippi, finding Indiana has no personal jurisdiction in the matter.
A northern Indiana town and school corporation’s motion to dismiss a case stemming from an unreported gang rape was affirmed Thursday, with one appellate judge apologizing to the victim for being unable to find an ‘adequate remedy’ under current Indiana law.
Parties cannot be ordered to participate in alternative dispute resolution in small claims proceedings, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Thursday, reinstating a dog-bite case that an Indianapolis judge had dismissed after litigants refused to participate in court-ordered mediation.