INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - In a decision hinging upon the ancient concept of bailment, an Indiana appeals court ruled the estate of a man killed in the crash of a helicopter he was working on must pay for the loss of the aircraft.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - An Indiana law that retroactively prohibited students from suing state universities over COVID pandemic measures like distance learning is constitutional and doesn’t prevent a Ball State student from suing the school on his own, the state’s highest court ruled.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - An Indiana hospital has defeated the lawsuit of a family upset that it provided life-prolonging care to their 91-year-old mother whose living will had do-not-resuscitate provisions.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - A woman who sued the manufacturer of brake-cleaning fluid over the death of her husband after he was killed trying to cut into a 55-gallon drum of the stuff with a welding torch has no case, an Indiana appeals court ruled.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - An Indiana city must defend itself against a defamation lawsuit filed by a prosecutor and his wife after the former mayor accused them in an “official statement” of ginning up false drug charges against his son for political reasons.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - Indiana’s immunity statute protecting police against lawsuits doesn’t extend to a case in which a shackled inmate accused a guard of failing to help him negotiate an icy step into a prison van, an appeals court ruled.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – Parents of a boy who was sent on a dangerous odyssey rather than put on a school bus home have a second chance to sue their school district.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - Parsing the fine details of Indiana’s bystander-injury rule, a state appeals court decided that a man who came across the scene of his burning house after a gas explosion can recover for emotional damages even though he never actually saw his wife’s body removed from the fire.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - An Indiana couple who sued their local school district and the health department because their children were required to attend remote learning in a crowded house with an incessantly squealing guinea pig had no basis for their lawsuit, an appeals court has ruled.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline)- The Catholic Church can’t avoid a lawsuit by a gay teacher who was fired after the archbishop enforced a strict “morals clause” on his school, an Indiana appeals court ruled, reversing a trial judge’s dismissal of the case on First Amendment grounds.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – Verbal and large written warnings about an allegedly dangerous step at an Indiana restaurant is enough for it to avoid liability for the fall of one of its customers.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - A judge improperly dismissed an inmate’s lawsuit after jail officials confiscated personal photographs that were sent to him in the mail, an appeals court ruled, finding that Indiana law requires the plaintiff get another chance to amend his complaint.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - An Indiana appeals court ordered a hospital to pay a doctor more than $4.75 million over claims she was defamed by a nurse who accused her of being drunk but delayed the report until it was too late for the physician to disprove it with a blood alcohol test.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - A couple who sued a bail bonding company over the shooting death of their son during a chaotic arrest attempt lost their chance at winning compensation after an Indiana appeals court upheld a jury verdict for the defense.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - An Indiana politician who lost his seat after witnesses said he announced his membership in a neo-Nazi group and unleashed a racist and anti-Semitic tirade at a meeting of county officials also lost his bid to regain his position through the courts.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – Left to find the source of gossip, an Indiana court will take the word of a mental health and addiction facility and toss a patient’s lawsuit against it.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – A property owner that let its grass grow tall enough to obscure the view of motorists, possibly causing a serious wreck, has again been victorious in a court ruling.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – After hundreds of pounds of metal studs rained from the sky during a construction project, the Indiana Court of Appeals has decided which companies can be held responsible for the injuries that subsequently occurred.
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – The Indiana Court of Appeals has refused to reinstate a lawsuit challenging the City of Hammond’s annual fee on rental property.
