Emphasizes that for a civil commitment the necessary elements of “either dangerous or gravely disabled” must be established by clear and convincing evidence.
Civil
In re Howell, No. 94S00-1405-CQ-321, __N.E.3d __ (Ind., March 20, 2015).
Life insurance bankruptcy exemptions apply to non-dependent spouses and children.
Hoagland v. Franklin Township Comm. School Corp., No. 49S02-1410-PL-643, __N.E.3d __ (Ind., March 24, 2015).
Public schools are not constitutionally required to provide transportation to students.
In re J.W., Jr., No. 82A04-1408-JT-380, __N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., March 25, 2015).
“Indiana Code Section 31-35-2-4(b)(2)(A)(iii) simply requires the DCS to demonstrate compliance with the statutory waiting period—namely, that a child has been removed from a parent for fifteen of the most recent twenty-two months immediately prior to the termination hearing. That statute does not condition the waiting period on whether the DCS provided or otherwise made available any type of services to the parent.”
Goodwin v. Yeakle’s Sports Bar & Grill, Inc., No. 27A02-1407-CT-526, __N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., March 25, 2015).
The bar owed its patrons a duty to take reasonable precautions to protect them from foreseeable criminal attacks of third parties.