The Indiana Court of Appeals enforced a $26 million business and real-estate transaction, holding that the note was not due before closing and mortgage forms were nonessential terms.
The Indiana Court of Appeals held that prolonged unsuccessful job searching can materially change the assumptions behind stipulated income used for child support.
The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed an adoption without the father’s consent based on his prolonged failure to communicate and found no due-process violation.
The Indiana Court of Appeals enforced a commercial lease renewal, applied equitable estoppel against forfeiture, and barred reimbursement under the voluntary-payment doctrine.
The Indiana Court of Appeals held that a probation petition identifying a new criminal case gave adequate notice when that case later produced the conviction used to revoke probation.
The Indiana Court of Appeals preserved its CGL coverage ruling while clarifying that the insurer’s ultimate indemnity duty remains unripe until liability is established.
The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed six convictions because charges involving two victims shared only a similar character, making severance mandatory under Indiana law.
An unidentified certified mailing and unrelated tracking page did not prove service, so the Indiana Court of Appeals held a treble-damages default judgment void for lack of personal jurisdiction.
The Indiana Court of Appeals held that allegations tying an assault to employer-provided travel and lodging were sufficient to survive dismissal on direct negligence and vicarious liability theories.
The Indiana Court of Appeals held that evidence Herzog pursued fleeing teenagers rather than disengage allowed the jury to find he acted with fault and reject self-defense.
The Indiana Court of Appeals erased a $20,726 arrearage because the parents’ performed agreement to substitute health insurance for weekly support substantially complied with the decree.
The Indiana Court of Appeals held that later speedy-trial requests displaced earlier pro se requests and affirmed Hunt’s attempted-obstruction convictions and 35-year sentence.
The Indiana Court of Appeals held that Aaron’s Law immunity requires the claimant to personally request emergency assistance and that a fact-based dismissal motion must include affidavits.
The Indiana Court of Appeals suppressed drugs found after officers facilitated a detection dog’s entry into a vehicle before probable cause existed.
The Indiana Court of Appeals held that missing the 30-day CHINS dispositional deadline requires dismissal without prejudice when a timely motion is filed and no continuance extended the deadline.
The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed a probation revocation because the trial court failed to establish a knowing and intelligent waiver of counsel.
The Indiana Court of Appeals held that notice to a professor’s personal insurer did not substantially comply with the Indiana Tort Claims Act’s 180-day deadline.
The Indiana Court of Appeals held that prolonged neglect supported an animal-cruelty conviction where a free surrender option was available despite inability to afford veterinary care.
The Indiana Court of Appeals held that unsworn expert letters could not rebut a medical review panel opinion and could not be repaired after summary judgment.
The Indiana Court of Appeals remanded for parenting-time findings while affirming custody and the denial of enhanced remedies for fraud in a dissolution case.
The Indiana Court of Appeals held that the State need not indemnify a former correctional officer whose noncooperation deprived it of an opportunity to defend.
The Indiana Court of Appeals rejected untimely tort and easement claims but allowed judicial review of a county guardrail decision to proceed on an undeveloped record.
The Indiana Court of Appeals held that a truck driver’s per-mile compensation was a wage and enforced the bright-line deadline for summary-judgment responses.
The Indiana Court of Appeals held that the Attorney General cannot issue a civil investigative demand without a concrete factual predicate for an existing investigation.