316 results for 'court:"Indiana Court Of Appeals"'.
J. May finds that the lower court properly denied defendant a jury instruction on parental privilege in his trial for intimidation and battery because defendant's actions in threatening his child with a knife did not fall under parental privilege. Affirmed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: May, Filed On: May 1, 2024, Case #: 23A-CR-1060, Categories: Jury, Battery
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J. Mathias finds that the trial court properly ruled in foreclosure claims because the bank was within its power to seek foreclosure of a surety agreement used to secure a farm loan. Meanwhile, one contracted party cannot be absolved of his obligations simply because the bank and other parties made modifications to the contract. Affirmed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Mathias, Filed On: May 1, 2024, Case #: 23A-MF-1986, Categories: Banking / Lending, Foreclosure
J. Pyle finds that defendant was properly convicted of battery. Defendant waived his argument to challenge testimony provided by a doctor because he objected on different grounds during trial. Meanwhile, any error regarding the evidence would be harmless in light of the totality of the facts surrounding the severity of the victim's injuries. Affirmed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Pyle, Filed On: April 30, 2024, Case #: 23A-CR-2367, Categories: Evidence, Battery, Experts
J. Kenworthy finds that the trial court improperly ruled in claims seeking access to public records because Indiana law allows the office of the inspector general to issue advisory opinions if requested, and those opinions are confidential. Thus, the attorney general was within his right to deny access to an opinion he had requested from the inspector general's office. Reversed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Kenworthy, Filed On: April 29, 2024, Case #: 23A-PL-705, Categories: Public Record
J. Mathias finds that the trial court improperly held that the city was required to provide plaintiff health insurance in employment claims because plaintiff was not a full-time employee merely for being a councilman. Reversed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Mathias, Filed On: April 29, 2024, Case #: 24A-PL-418, Categories: Employment
J. Pyle finds that the trial court properly found for prison employees in a prisoner's civil rights claims contending an employee was loud, disruptive, and disrespectful. Meanwhile, the prisoner was properly temporarily removed from employment in the law library since the prisoner's comments on the restroom policy did not constitute speech protected under the first amendment. Affirmed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Pyle, Filed On: April 26, 2024, Case #: 23A-CT-201, Categories: Civil Rights, Constitution, Prisoners' Rights
J. Baker finds that the trial court improperly ruled in a dispute over a non-compete agreement by failing to consider the disservice that would be done to the public by enforcing the agreement on a doctor, which would deprive him from serving patients. The hospital does not possess other doctors practicing the same specialty, and thus the restrictive agreement does nothing but prevent the doctor from practicing in a specific area. Reversed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Baker, Filed On: April 25, 2024, Case #: 23A-PL-2111, Categories: Employment, Contract
J. Riley finds that the trial court properly held defendant in contempt and ordered her to serve 90 days in jail for lying three times in court about the existence and death of a child who did not exist, as the lies made it impossible for child services to determine if the child was real. Affirmed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Riley, Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: 23A-JM-2671, Categories: Contempt, Family Law
J. Bradford finds that the trial court properly upheld an insurer's refusal to cover an accident involving two tractor-trailers because plaintiff did not meet all license requirements under the policy, and the insurer did not act in bad faith. Affirmed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Bradford, Filed On: April 22, 2024, Case #: 23A-PL-3044, Categories: Insurance
J. Altice finds that the trial court properly ruled in civil rights claims because evidence indicates an inmate was provided regular access to medical care, and nothing indicates correctional officers acted indifferently toward him. Meanwhile, the inmate failed to establish he suffered injury absent a showing that he served time in jail based upon levied sanctions. Affirmed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Altice, Filed On: April 18, 2024, Case #: 23A-CT-1564, Categories: Civil Rights, Negligence, Prisoners' Rights
J. Weissmann finds that the trial court improperly ruled in breach of contract claims because facts remain in dispute as to whether the parties orally agreed to form the company as equal members, and the business was entitled to a jury trial. Reversed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Weissmann, Filed On: April 17, 2024, Case #: 23A-PL-1383, Categories: Contract
J. Mathias finds that the trial court properly allowed plaintiff, a member of the church board of trustees, to continue negligence claims brought after he fell from a ladder while doing construction work on a shed because worship did not take place where the shed was located, and thus the case was not subject to statute regarding personal injuries in places of worship. Affirmed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Mathias, Filed On: April 15, 2024, Case #: 23A-CT-1728, Categories: Property, Negligence
J. Brown finds that the trial court properly ruled in defamation claims stemming from statements made to the chief of the fire department at which plaintiff volunteered about plaintiff's prior arrest for impersonating an officer because plaintiff failed to demonstrate that information in the sheriff's department database, or statements made to his employer about his arrest, had been false. Affirmed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Brown, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 23A-PL-2229, Categories: Employment, Defamation
J. Shepard finds that the trial court improperly ruled in claims seeking to include a third gender on driver's licenses and identification cards. Under Indiana law, the term "gender" in relation to such documents is defined as a person's biological sex, which falls in line with other systems that require recording a cardholder's sex. Reversed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Shepard, Filed On: April 9, 2024, Case #: 23A-PL-899, Categories: Civil Rights, Licensing
J. Vaidik finds that the lower court properly convicted defendant for failing to register his online social media accounts for three dating websites as a sex offender. A website does not have to have a “built-in messaging or chat function so long as it provides some way for a member to contact another person” in order to be classified as a social networking website. Affirmed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Vaidik, Filed On: April 8, 2024, Case #: 23A-CR-2139, Categories: Sex Offender
J. Mathias finds that the lower court properly convicted defendant of Level 4 felony unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon. The state presented sufficient evidence to prove that defendant had possessed a handgun stolen from his father, found at the scene where defendant fled from officers. Affirmed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Mathias, Filed On: April 8, 2024, Case #: 23A-CR-1399, Categories: Evidence