Indiana – Case Law Wire

Young v. Department of Local Government Finance — Indiana Tax Court Upholds 2023 Lake County Land Order and Clarifies Scope of DLGF Review

/ June 14, 2026

The Indiana Tax Court affirmed the DLGF’s approval of Lake County’s 2023 land order, rejecting challenges from a pro se petitioner and an intervenor to the order’s timing, sales data sufficiency, valuation methodology, and hearing notice; the court also clarified that DLGF review under Indiana Code § 6-1.1-4-13.6 is limited to county-wide base rates and does not extend to the application of those rates to individual parcels.

Blair v. Fields — GAL Report Ten-Day Deadline Runs on Calendar Days, Not Business Days; New T.R. 7(D) Governs Continuance Motions

The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed a custody modification to Mother, holding that a GAL report filed electronically ten calendar days before a hearing was timely — the ten-day deadline runs on calendar days, not business days — and that Indiana’s new Trial Rule 7(D) requires continuance motions to include timing estimates or risk procedural denial.