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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - A prison inmate who stopped taking prescription medicine after complaining about side effects can sue his doctors for malpractice and deliberate indifference for refusing to provide an alternate medication, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled, reversing a trial court’s dismissal of the prisoner’s lawsuit.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - An Indiana man who pled guilty to killing his grandfather can’t sue his doctors for letting him do it, the state’s highest court said, ruling for the first time on whether a criminal plea can block a subsequent civil lawsuit.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – A new ruling from the Indiana Supreme Court gives trial judges a lesson on when high-ranking executives can be forced into depositions.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - Saying they were participating in “a process of incremental change,” a majority of justices on the Indiana Supreme Court loosened the rules for lawsuits over emotional distress to allow a mother to sue over the effects of learning her daughter had been sexually abused years before.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – Indiana’s Department of Transportation will be exposed to new theories of liability over traffic accidents as a result of a recent state Supreme Court decision.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – Tyson Foods won’t be liable for a car wreck that involved a 92-year-old man striking a motorcycle.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - An Indiana couple’s attempt to get their lawsuit before a more favorable state court failed, as the Indiana Supreme Court said they couldn’t sue the manager of a Walmart store in addition to the company itself.
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CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – A federal appeals court needs help from the Indiana Supreme Court to determine how far a father can go with a claim of medical malpractice when the physicians he sued treated the driver of the car that caused a fatal accident.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - A man who claimed he was injured after a truck sideswiped his rental car lost his bid to overturn a jury verdict after the Indiana Supreme Court ruled the trial judge was correct in instructing jurors to consider his failure to follow doctor’s orders when calculating how much he should be paid.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – An Indiana Supreme Court opinion shows one roadmap for those who want to get out of jury duty.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – A lower court didn’t do enough work when it allowed 36 Essure lawsuits against Bayer to proceed, the Indiana Supreme Court has ruled.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) — The Indiana Supreme Court has concluded a section of the state code has a time limitation for legal action that can't be extended by post-delivery fixes, refurbishments or reconstruction of the product in question.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – On Dec. 3, the Indiana Supreme Court determined that a nonsolicitation clause in a noncompete agreement is too broad to be enforced in a dispute with a company and its former employee.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – Post-judgment interest on a $49.5 million judgment in IBM’s case with the state of Indiana runs from the judgment on remand, not from the date of the original 2012 judgment, Indiana's Supreme Court ruled.
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Indiana Chief Justice Loretta H. Rush addressed the Governor and a joint session of the Indiana General Assembly for the annual State of the Judiciary.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – An Ohio tool manufacturer is not liable for the injuries a man suffered when he misused one of its power tools and eventually lost an eye, the Indiana Supreme Court recently ruled.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Legal Newsline) – The Indiana Supreme Court has answered a question submitted to it by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in a case between fantasy sports operators and the use of personalities of former collegiate athletes.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed a summary judgement for Norfolk Southern Railway Co. on Sept. 24 after the state of Indiana handed the transportation entity nearly more than 20 blocked-crossing citations.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – A Michigan City, Indiana, hotel guest didn’t offer sufficient evidence that proved the hotel’s negligence led to bed bugs in his room, the Court of Appeals of Indiana decided Aug. 29.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – The Indiana Supreme Court has refused to hold a pizza place liable under certian claims for a fatal crash allegedly caused by one of its delivery drivers - a basic and logical decision that prevents turmoil for employers, an attorney for the restaurant says.