Supreme Court of Indiana Decisions 2014
Date: December 23, 2014
Docket Number: 41S04-1408-AD-515
Justia Opinion Summary: For most of the first year of her life, B.C.H. remained in the primary care, custody and control of her maternal grandparents (Grandparents), and Mother would visit her once a week. Mother later married Stepfather, who…
Date: December 18, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1405-CR-325
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted under Indiana’s public intoxication statute of being intoxicated in a public place and engaging in annoying conduct. Defendant appealed, arguing that the term “annoys” in the public intoxication…
Date: December 17, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1405-CR-338
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted for being a serious violent felon in possession of a firearm. Defendant appealed, arguing, among other things, that the trial court erred by admitting a detective’s testimony…
Date: December 16, 2014
Docket Number: 87S01-1412-DR-739
Justia Opinion Summary: When Father and Mother divorced, they reached an agreement regarding child support that substantially deviated from what would be ordered by applying the Indiana Child Support Guidelines. Later, Mother petitioned to…
Date: December 10, 2014
Docket Number: 79S04-1412-CR-730
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of Class A felony dealing in methamphetamine, among other charges, and received an aggregate sentence of forty years. Defendant appealed his sentence under Ind. App. R.…
Date: December 5, 2014
Docket Number: 10S00-1409-JD-606
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent Mickey K. Weber, Judge of the Clarksville Town Court, pled guilty to criminal mischief in the second degree and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. Respondent’s conduct violated…
Date: December 4, 2014
Docket Number: 08S00-1402-MI-98
Justia Opinion Summary: Two landowners (Landowners) each owned property served by a regional sewer district (District). Because the Landowners’ property had outstanding fees owed to the District, the District perfected liens against the…
Date: December 4, 2014
Docket Number: 08S02-1402-MI-78
Date: December 4, 2014
Docket Number: 08S04-1402-MI-97
Justia Opinion Summary: Two landowners owned property served by a regional sewer district. The district had perfected liens against the properties due to the landowners’ failure to pay fees and penalties. The trial court listed the properties…
Date: December 4, 2014
Docket Number: 45S03-1406-AD-387
Justia Opinion Summary: N.E., the former foster parent of two minor children, filed petitions to adopt the children in Lake Superior Court 2, part of the court’s Civil Division. N.E., however, violated a local rule that all adoptions - a type…
Date: November 13, 2014
Docket Number: 20S04-1404-CR-243
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with Class A felony manufacturing methamphetamine - enhanced from a Class B felony because at least three grams of the drug were at issue. The State relied significantly on a liquid solvent that…
Date: November 13, 2014
Docket Number: 49S04-1311-PL-732
Justia Opinion Summary: The Indiana Department of Insurance Commissioner reviewed the practices of First American Title Insurance Company, resulting in the generation of a report. Six weeks after the deadline for taking action regarding the…
Date: November 13, 2014
Docket Number: 49S05-1411-PL-700
Justia Opinion Summary: One year after the Indiana Department of Education and the Indiana State Board of Education (collectively, “DOE”) approved Teaching Our Posterity Success, Inc. (“TOPS”) as a Supplemental Educational Services provider,…
Date: November 6, 2014
Docket Number: 45S00-1309-PL-596
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, an exclusive-agency union and several of its members and officers (collectively, the Union), filed a complaint against the Attorney General and the Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Labor…
Date: October 30, 2014
Docket Number: 13S05-1410-PC-682
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of two counts of attempted murder, burglary resulting in serious bodily injury, aggravated battery, and battery. Defendant later filed a petition for post-conviction relief,…
Date: October 30, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1310-PC-684
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted of conspiracy to deal in cocaine as a class B felony and sentenced to an executed term of sixteen years. After an unsuccessful appeal, Appellant filed a pro se petition for post-conviction relief,…
Date: October 28, 2014
Docket Number: 89D04-1312-PL-788
Date: October 28, 2014
Docket Number: 89S04-1312-PL-788
Justia Opinion Summary: A seventeen-year-old high school student with Down Syndrome choked to death during lunchtime in the school cafeteria. The parents of the child sued the school and several administrators, alleging negligence, wrongful…
Date: October 22, 2014
Docket Number: 35S02-1401-CR-10
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted on multiple counts of child molesting, child solicitation, and possession of child pornography. Defendant sought appellate review of the trial court’s denial of his motions to…
Date: October 21, 2014
Docket Number: 02S05-1404-CR-246
Justia Opinion Summary: While responding to a report of dogs fighting in Defendant’s backyard, law enforcement officers entered Defendant’s house to retrieve one bloody and aggressive dog and to ensure no one was injured. Once inside the home,…
Date: October 16, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1402-PL-80
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was fired from her job at the Indiana Department of Workforce Development for alleged misconduct. After it was discovered that Petitioner kept several items of state property in her possession, Petitioner was…
Date: October 15, 2014
Docket Number: 45S03-1407-CT-459
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs sued Defendants for fraudulently failing to disclose defects in a home on a sales disclosure form. The trial court awarded compensatory damages but not fees, costs, or exemplary damages under the Crime Victims…
Date: October 7, 2014
Docket Number: 82S04-1401-PL-49
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this case was whether the certificates of death that doctors, coroners, and funeral directors file with county health departments under Ind. Code 16-37-3 are public records that the public may freely obtain…
Date: October 1, 2014
Docket Number: 34S04-1410-JP-607
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2010, A trial court found Father in arrears in child support in the amount of $21,337 and ordered that $15,000 in funds attached from Father’s bank be released to Mother. The State later intercepted an additional…
Date: September 30, 2014
Docket Number: 49A04-1307-PL-316
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff was an abusive litigant. In this case, Plaintiff filed a complaint against Defendant, which the trial court dismissed for failure to prosecute or comply with applicable rules under Ind. Trial Rule 41(E). The…
Date: September 30, 2014
Docket Number: 75S03-1401-CR-13
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, a teacher and coach, was charged with two counts of attempted child seduction after communicating with a sixteen-year-old student via an internet site and asking the student to sneak out of her parents house…
Date: September 25, 2014
Docket Number: 21S01-1409-AD-592
Justia Opinion Summary: Child was four months old when she was placed in foster care with Adoptive Parents. When Child was six years old, Adoptive Parents filed a petition to adopt Child. Child’s biological father (Father) refused to consent to…
Date: September 24, 2014
Docket Number: 20S05-1405-CR-339
Justia Opinion Summary: The State filed a class C felony child molestation charge against Appellant, and 1,291 days elapsed before the beginning of Appellant’s trial. Appellant was found guilty as charged and sentenced to six years executed.…
Date: September 17, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1403-PC-172
Justia Opinion Summary: After a bench trial, Petitioner was convicted of class B felony criminal confinement. Petitioner’s conviction was affirmed on appeal. Petitioner subsequently filed a petition for post-conviction relief, alleging that his…
Date: September 9, 2014
Docket Number: 32S04-1404-DR-245
Justia Opinion Summary: When Barbara and Michael Pohl divorced, they entered into a custody, support, and property settlement agreement that was incorporated into their dissolution decree. Because the original agreement did not provide for…
Date: September 9, 2014
Docket Number: 49S04-1406-MI-386
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of dealing cocaine and related offenses. The State subsequently filed civil proceedings seeking forfeiture of Defendant’s car and the cash discovered in a search incident to Defendant’s arrest,…
Date: September 3, 2014
Docket Number: 46S03-1405-MI-337
Justia Opinion Summary: TP Orthodontics’ (TPO) board of directors formed a special litigation committee (the SLC) to investigate derivative claims filed by sibling minority shareholders. Following a lengthy investigation, the SLC produced a…
Date: September 3, 2014
Docket Number: 68S05-1404-TR-296
Justia Opinion Summary: Hanover College, the beneficiary of two trusts, filed petitions requesting that the trusts be terminated. Old National Bancorp, d/b/a Old National Trust Company, as trustee for both trusts, filed responses to Hanover’s…
Date: September 3, 2014
Docket Number: 73S01-1401-CR-29
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was charged with several felony offenses and two misdemeanor offenses arising from a foiled drug sale. Appellant was found guilty as charged. After Appellant was sentenced, a post-conviction court scheduled the…
Date: September 2, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1405-MI-313
Justia Opinion Summary: The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM), Indiana’s environmental agency, revised its interpretation of the regulatory term “chemical process plants.” After IDEM issued operating permits to two companies…
Date: August 26, 2014
Docket Number: 49S05-1404-CC-209
Justia Opinion Summary: An Estate filed an adult wrongful death medical malpractice action against a nursing home. The Estate settled its claim against the nursing home for $250,000, the maximum liability of the health care provider under…
Date: August 25, 2014
Docket Number: 49S10-1402-TA-79
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this case was whether Indiana’s tax statutes allow Caterpillar, Inc. to increase its Indiana net operating losses (NOLs) by deducting foreign source dividend income. Caterpillar commenced an original tax…
Date: August 13, 2014
Docket Number: 71S04-1310-CR-705
Justia Opinion Summary: Law enforcement officers arrested Defendant on two counts of theft and seized his clothing, including his shoes, in accordance with their standard booking protocols. After police found what appeared to be blood under the…
Date: August 12, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1408-CR-521
Justia Opinion Summary: Under the terms of a plea agreement Defendant pleaded guilty to one count of class A felony criminal deviate conduct and class B felony robbery. The trial court sentenced Defendant to a total executed term of forty…
Date: July 24, 2014
Docket Number: 29S02-1407-CT-483
Date: July 22, 2014
Docket Number: 58S01-1309-CR-586
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted for class A felony conspiracy to commit robbery resulting in serious bodily injury. Defendant appealed, arguing (1) there was insufficient evidence to support his conviction because the State…
Date: July 21, 2014
Docket Number: 29S02-1407-CT-476
Date: July 17, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1309-PL-620
Justia Opinion Summary: Buyers agreed to buy a condominium from Seller pursuant to a purchase agreement. Buyers demanded that Seller fix a minor electrical problem as a condition of purchase, which led to this protracted litigation. In the…
Date: July 10, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1407-JT-458
Justia Opinion Summary: After K.W., a minor child, was removed from the care of Mother and Father, the Department of Child Services (DCS) sought to terminate the parental rights of Mother and Father. On the day of the termination hearing,…
Date: July 9, 2014
Docket Number: 49S04-1301-PL-8
Date: June 27, 2014
Docket Number: 45S03-1308-CT-531
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff was seriously injured when she was hit by a ball while attending a South Shore RailCats baseball game at their home stadium, the U.S. Steelyard. Plaintiff filed negligence and premises liability claims against…
Date: June 27, 2014
Docket Number: 48S02-1406-CR-415
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was found to have violated the terms of his probation by committing Resisting Law Enforcement as a Class A misdemeanor by fleeing. The trial court ordered Appellant to serve three-and-one-half years of his…
Date: June 27, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1312-CR-789
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was charged with Resisting Law Enforcement by fleeing after being ordered to stop by a law enforcement officer. After a bench trial, the trial court found Appellant guilty of the charge. On appeal, Appellant…
Date: June 27, 2014
Docket Number: 49S04-1402-CR-72
Justia Opinion Summary: After a bench trial, Defendant was convicted of Public Intoxication as a class B misdemeanor. The court of appeals reversed the conviction, concluding that the evidence was insufficient to establish that Defendant had…
Date: June 27, 2014
Docket Number: 49S04-1406-CR-416
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to B-felony burglary and lesser offenses as part of a combined plea agreement. The agreement conferred discretion to determine the placement of Defendant’s executed sentence but had no provision…
Date: June 20, 2014
Docket Number: 49S05-1401-CR-28
Justia Opinion Summary: Upon responding to a call about an unsupervised toddler wandering near an apartment-complex retention pond, Defendant informed the police that he was the child’s father. Defendant consented to police entry into his…
Date: June 19, 2014
Docket Number: 20S04-1406-PL-399
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a former independent commissioned sales representative for Mor/Ryde International, Inc., sued Mor/Ryde for unpaid commissions under a contract between the parties. One count of Plaintiff’s complaint alleged…
Date: June 12, 2014
Docket Number: 28S00-1305-LW-327
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP). The Supreme Court affirmed in all respects, holding (1) the trial court did not err in…
Date: June 10, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1311-PL-733
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs’ insured vehicle was struck by a Jeep driven by a hit-and-run driver. Plaintiffs sought coverage for property damage under the uninsured motorists coverage of the family auto insurance policy issued by Erie…
Date: June 5, 2014
Docket Number: 20S04-1308-PC-533
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, a non-native English speaker, pleaded guilty to one count of delivery of cocaine within one thousand feet of a school. Ten years later, Defendant filed a petition for post-conviction relief alleging that his…
Date: June 3, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1311-CR-734
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of two counts of felony sexual misconduct with a minor. Defendant appealed, arguing that several statements made by the State during closing argument constituted prosecutorial…
Date: June 3, 2014
Docket Number: 82S01-1305-CT-363
Justia Opinion Summary: In November 2006, The Good Samaritan Home, a nursing home where Venita Hargis was living, told Hargis’s family that Hargis had suffered a fall. Hargis died later that month as a result of the injury she sustained in the…
Date: June 2, 2014
Docket Number: 48S02-1406-CR-363
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2010, three teenagers, including sixteen-year-old Martez Brown, robbed two victims in their home. The victims were killed during the robbery. Brown was found guilty of two counts of murder and one count of robbery.…
Date: June 2, 2014
Docket Number: 48S02-1406-CR-364
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2010, three teenagers, including sixteen-year-old Martez Brown and fifteen-year-old Defendant, robbed two victims in their home. The victims were killed during the robbery. Defendant was found guilty of two counts of…
Date: May 29, 2014
Docket Number: 02S03-1305-CT-332
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, an Indiana resident, was driving a semi-tractor trailer on behalf of Werner Transportation, a Georgia company, when he was injured in West Virginia after another truck hit his rig. Werner insured the truck…
Date: May 28, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1405-MI-355
Justia Opinion Summary: Decedent died on March 25, 2011 from cervical cancer. On July 1, 2011, Decedent's Estate commenced this medical malpractice action, alleging that Defendant, Decedent’s physician, had negligently failed to perform a…
Date: May 28, 2014
Docket Number: 54S01-1405-CT-356
Justia Opinion Summary: After Plaintiffs’ eighteen-year-old son, a freshman pledge of a college fraternity, died from acute alcohol ingestion, Plaintiffs brought a wrongful death action against the national fraternity, the local fraternity, and…
Date: May 14, 2014
Docket Number: 79S02-1405-CR-334
Justia Opinion Summary: On September 19, 2011, the trial court sentenced Defendant. On December 5, 2012, Defendant filed a motion to modify her sentence. On March 5, 2013, the trial court granted Defendant’s motion for modification. The State…
Date: May 13, 2014
Docket Number: 10S01-1402-MH-113
Justia Opinion Summary: Sara Townsend and A.S. were co-workers. Townsend completed an application to initiate a process to seek immediate emergency treatment for A.S., alleging that A.S. was a threat to herself or others. A trial court judge…
Date: May 13, 2014
Docket Number: 45S03-1309-CR-597
Justia Opinion Summary: After a detective received a tip that Defendant, who was African American, was responsible for a 2007 murder, the detective brought Defendant into an interrogation room to question him about the murder. In order to…
Date: May 7, 2014
Docket Number: 49S00-1311-PL-716
Justia Opinion Summary: The Indianapolis Marion County City-County Council and Mayor Gregory Ballard agreed on an ordinance dividing Marion County into legislative districts. Three members of the Council (“Plaintiffs”) filed a complaint seeking…
Date: May 1, 2014
Docket Number: 15S01-1405-CR-309
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was indicted on several charges relating to his divorce case. After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of one felony count of intimidating the trial judge, two misdemeanor counts of intimidation involving…
Date: May 1, 2014
Docket Number: 82S01-1307-PL-473
Justia Opinion Summary: In order to renovate a former warehouse building into administrative offices, Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation (“School Corporation”) implemented a plan to convey the Building to the EVSC Foundation…
Date: April 29, 2014
Docket Number: 45S05-1305-CR-331
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with murder and criminal gang activity. During trial, the trial court excused a juror from the jury after she disclosed that she had a frightening experience at her apartment and that she could not…
Date: April 29, 2014
Docket Number: 71S04-1308-CR-535
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of class C felony burglary. The trial court sentenced Defendant to five years in the Indiana Department of Correction, enhanced by eight years for the finding that Defendant…
Date: April 16, 2014
Docket Number: 02S05-1305-PL-364
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2005, Appellant was convicted of a sex crime against an adult female. In 2009, Appellant was released to statutorily mandated parole. The conditions of Appellant’s parole prohibited Appellant from having contact with…
Date: April 16, 2014
Docket Number: 45S00-1206-CR-343
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant pled guilty to murder, murder in the perpetration of a robbery, and robbery. Appellant sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. The Supreme Court subsequently issued an order directing the trial court to…
Date: April 3, 2014
Docket Number: 48S02-1307-CT-472
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs obtained a homeowners insurance policy from American Family Mutual Insurance Company. After Plaintiffs’ home sustained substantial fire damage, a dispute arose regarding the amount of insurance claim benefits…
Date: April 1, 2014
Docket Number: 27S02-1309-CR-584
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial in 1995, Defendant was found guilty of rape, criminal deviate conduct, and armed robbery. Defendant’s aggregate sentence was imposed in such a way that one of the individual sentences was ordered…
Date: March 27, 2014
Docket Number: 18S02-1304-CR-297
Justia Opinion Summary: After Defendant, a high school principal, was told by a student at his school that she had been raped by a fellow student, Defendant did not notify law enforcement or the Department of Child Services for four hours.…
Date: March 27, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1311-PL-758
Justia Opinion Summary: After Jerramy Johnson, the owner of Front Row Motors, LLC, sold Scott Jones a used car, Jones filed an action against Front Row Motors, alleging, inter alia, a violation of the Indiana Deceptive Sales Act. Jones…
Date: March 26, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1402-JT-77
Justia Opinion Summary: The County Department of Child Services filed a petition to involuntarily terminate the parental rights of Mother to her four children. The case was tried to a judge who resigned before reporting recommended findings and…
Date: March 26, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1402-JT-81
Justia Opinion Summary: The County Department of Child Services filed a petition to involuntarily terminate the parental rights of Father to his child. At the conclusion of the termination hearing, the magistrate that presided over the hearing…
Date: March 25, 2014
Docket Number: 20S04-1307-CR-471
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with four misdemeanors after a law enforcement officer stopped her vehicle for “unsafe lane movement,” conducted field sobriety tests on Defendant, which she failed, and discovered marijuana…
Date: March 25, 2014
Docket Number: 67S01-1403-CR-179
Justia Opinion Summary: A law enforcement officer stopped the vehicle Defendant was driving after observing the vehicle driving under the speed limit and coming to a full stop before turning onto a county road, where Defendant drove left of…
Date: March 18, 2014
Docket Number: 49S04-1304-CR-249
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of four counts of felony attempted child exploitation for taking “upskirt” photographs of women and girls at a mall by means of a concealed shoe camera. The court of appeals…
Date: March 13, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1303-PL-221
Justia Opinion Summary: An underinsured motorist collided with a city bus driven by Plaintiff. Plaintiff received a net workers’ compensation award of $71,958. Plaintiff also received $25,000 from the tortfeasor’s insurer. Plaintiff carried an…
Date: March 13, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1308-JT-558
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2010, the Department of Child Services (DCS) filed a petition alleging that G.P. was a child in need of services (CHINS) because Mother had a history of drug abuse. At an initial hearing before the CHINS court, Mother…
Date: March 13, 2014
Docket Number: 49S04-1308-CR-534
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was found guilty of two counts of aggravated battery and sentenced to a term of years in the Department of Correction. The State sought restitution, and the trial court scheduled a restitution hearing. Before…
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: 20S03-1309-JV-583
Justia Opinion Summary: I.T., who admitted to conduct that would be a Class B felony child molesting if committed by an adult, was ordered by the trial court to undergo therapeutic polygraph examinations. During one of those exams, I.T.…
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: 45S03-1309-CT-619
Justia Opinion Summary: A driver hit Britney Meux, who later died from her injuries, and fled the scene. The State charged the alleged driver, Jason Cozmanoff, with thirteen crimes, including one count of reckless homicide. A few weeks later,…
Date: March 11, 2014
Docket Number: 02S03-1308-AD-528
Justia Opinion Summary: Father had two children with Mother. From 2001 onward, Father was required to pay child support. Father was also incarcerated for the majority of those years. In 2011, Mother married her boyfriend, E.J., and Mother and…
Date: March 11, 2014
Docket Number: 32S01-1403-CR-151
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2005, Defendant was sentenced to seventeen years in prison. In 2010, Defendant struck a prison employee in the face. Defendant was found guilty of battery with injury and sentenced to an enhanced term of three years.…
Date: March 10, 2014
Docket Number: 46S04-1403-CT-149
Justia Opinion Summary: On April 19, Plaintiff sent a proposed medical malpractice complaint to the Indiana Department of Insurance by way of FedEx Priority Overnight. On April 21, the Department received the proposed complaint and…
Date: March 7, 2014
Docket Number: 45S03-1308-JT-557
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2008, one-year-old E.M. and his newborn sister El.M. were adjudicated children in need of services (CHINS) based on father’s repeated domestic violence against Mother. By mid-2010, both Mother and Father had ceased…
Date: March 6, 2014
Docket Number: 21S04-1308-PL-530
Justia Opinion Summary: Howard Price was the Fayette County Highway Supervisor from 1991 to 2002 and again resumed the position in 2006. In 2011, the Fayette County Board of Commissioners decided not to reappoint Price as Highway Supervisor.…
Date: March 4, 2014
Docket Number: 49S00-1308-JD-560
Justia Opinion Summary: From 2002 through 2008, Respondent Kimberly J. Brown served as judge of a small claims court. In 2009, Respondent began serving as judge of the superior court. In 2013, the Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications…
Date: February 20, 2014
Docket Number: 53S01-1303-PL-222
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a limited liability corporation, filed a complaint against Defendants - James T. Mitchell individually, the corporation that Mitchell owned, and other corporations - alleging a claim for an environmental legal…
Date: February 18, 2014
Docket Number: 49S02-1305-CR-328
Justia Opinion Summary: The State charged Defendant with class D felony sexual battery. Defendant, who was born in 1943, filed a motion for a competency determination. Doctors evaluating Defendant diagnosed him with dementia, concluded that he…
Date: February 13, 2014
Docket Number: 54S01-1303-CT-161
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a college freshman and a fraternity pledge, sustained injuries in an incident at the fraternity. Claiming that his injuries resulted from a fraternity hazing incident, Plaintiff sought damages from the…
Date: February 12, 2014
Docket Number: 49S05-1309-JC-585
Justia Opinion Summary: After one of Mother’s five children, a toddler, was rushed to the emergency room and placed on a ventilator, Mother consented to the Department of Child Services (DCS) removing the other four children from her care to…
Date: February 11, 2014
Docket Number: 49S00-1207-LW-376
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of murder, felony murder, robbery, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon. Defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of…
Date: February 11, 2014
Docket Number: 82S01-1306-CT-436
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2012, the Common Council of the City of Evansville enacted an ordinance (“the Amending Ordinance”) that amended an existing smoking ban (“the Smoking Ban”). The Amending Ordinance extended the Smoking Ban to bars,…
Date: February 6, 2014
Docket Number: 49S04-1301-PL-8
Justia Opinion Summary: A fire destroyed a restaurant insured by Insurers. The Insurers brought suit against the City of Indianapolis and Veolia Water Indianapolis, LLC - a private, for-profit company responsible for operating the City’s water…
Date: January 21, 2014
Docket Number: 87S01-1303-PL-157
Justia Opinion Summary: The City of Boonville passed an ordinance to annex 1,165 acres of real estate located west of the city limits. Later that year, numerous landowners opposed to the annexation filed written remonstrance and complaint for…
