Despite a typographical error that prompted northern Indiana law enforcement officers to arrest, and later release, a man who was mistakenly alleged to have violated a protective order, a district court judge has granted summary judgment to the officers on the man’s wrongful arrest claims, finding the officers had arguable probable cause to make the arrest.
The Indiana Supreme Court has affirmed the dismissal of a case seeking declaratory judgment and an injunction against the Indiana Department of Transportation, finding the local government entity bringing the action against INDOT lacked standing to do so.
A woman who was injured in an attack while walking from a Bartholomew County wrestling event to her car cannot succeed on her negligence claim against the wrestling company because the attack was not foreseeable, so the company did not owe a duty to her, the Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled.
Deferring to the role of a jury to hear evidence and draw related inferences, the Indiana Supreme Court has affirmed a man’s enhanced conviction of dealing meth within 500 feet of a public park, finding the jury was in the best position to determine if children were “reasonably expected” to be at the park at the time of the crimes.
A woman who twice petitioned to have a federal theft of bank funds conviction expunged lost in her second bid, and the judge denying the motion said district courts lack such authority.
A father who appealed an award of attorney fees in a long-running dispute over the use of funds in a family limited partnership now must pay appellate legal fees as well, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled. The court found the appeal “merely another attempt to harass the parties involved.”
A man convicted as one of the masterminds of a deadly conspiracy to blow up a home on the south side of Indianapolis and collect the insurance money will spend the rest of his life in prison after the Indiana Supreme Court affirmed his murder convictions and the constitutionality of Indiana’s life without parole statute.
A former Marion County deputy prosecutor will not be discipline for alleged misconduct that led to the reversal of a child molesting conviction, though the Indiana Supreme Court noted in a Friday opinion that the lack of disciplinary action was not an endorsement of the attorney’s conduct.
An Indiana trial court was not required to hold a competency hearing before revoking a man’s probation on a rape conviction because the man did not request such a hearing and did not prove that his mental illness was so severe as to relieve him of criminal responsibility for violating his probation, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
An Indiana’s man felony syringe conviction has been overturned after the Indiana Court of Appeals determined the evidence was insufficient to prove the man was in possession of the syringe for an unlawful purpose.
An Indiana trial court has jurisdiction to hear a dispute between Allen County fire departments that is grounded in both annexation and tax law as the facts of the case do not require the interpretation of “substantive tax law,” the Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled.
Transgender individuals in Indiana seeking to change their gender markers on their birth certificates are not required under Indiana law to publish notice of their intent to change, as there is currently no statutory authority requiring such notice, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
A man convicted in the 2010 shooting of a Gary man is entitled to conditional habeas corpus relief for Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause violations, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.
A high school student who was adjudicated as a delinquent after he sent Facebook messages about a plan to attack his school had one of his adjudications reversed after a divided Indiana Court of Appeals found insufficient evidence for a true finding of attempted aggravated battery.
The Indiana Court of Appeals has affirmed partial summary judgment for an Indianapolis law firm in a defamation case, finding the challenged statements made by the firm were protected by absolute privilege.
An Indiana man will get a second chance at post-conviction relief after the Indiana Court of Appeals determined Wednesday that his petition for relief was erroneously dismissed as an improper successive petition.
The Indiana Worker’s Compensation Board did not err when it ruled in favor of an injured employee of an Evansville media company, the Indiana Court of Appeals decided Wednesday, as the medical opinion offered by the employee was not contrary to a settlement agreement.
An 8-year-old girl who is alleged to be the victim of sexual abuse will not have to testify in the presence of her alleged abuser after the Indiana Court of Appeals determined the trial court erred in denying motions to allow the victim to testify via closed circuit television.
A commodities trader who was the first person to be convicted of a kind of illegal trading dubbed spoofing failed to convince the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals that the anti-spoofing statute in the Dodd-Frank Act is unconstitutionally vague.
A black former Whitley County merit officer who raised a racial discrimination claim after he was fired will present his case to a jury after the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals determined Tuesday he had evidence of possible racial discrimination by the Whitley County Sheriff’s Department.