“We therefore conclude that the Indiana pre-tax sale notice statute violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because it does not require the government to provide sufficient notice prior to the tax sale either by mail or by personal service to mortgagees who have publicly recorded mortgages, even if such notice is not requested by the mortgagees, and because it provides that, even if the government fails to mail the requested notice or the notice is undeliverable for some reason, the validity of the tax sale will not be affected.”
Civil
T.B. v. Ind. Dept. of Child Svcs., No. 79A04-1110-JT-594, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., June 29, 2012).
The Court declined to adopt a policy that prohibits the involuntary termination of parental rights for all mentally retarded parents.
Hirsch v. Oliver, No. 29S02-1109-DR-530, ___N.E.2d ___ (Ind., June 29, 2012).
Under Ind. Code § 31-16-6-6(a)(3), if a trial court determines there is no longer an obligation of the parent to support the child, emancipation has necessarily occurred.
In Re: Prosecutor's Subpoena Regarding S.H. and S.C., 73A01-1109-CR-468, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., June 22, 2012).
A prosecutor investigating a crime before charging someone without a grand jury has the same authority to grant use immunity as a prosecutor using a grand jury.
Gill v. Evansville Sheet Metal Works, Inc., No. 49S05-1111-CV-672, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., June 25, 2012).
Defined “improvement to real property” as used in Indiana Code 32-30-1-5 as “(1) an addition to or betterment of real property; (2) that is permanent; (3) that enhances the real property’s capital value; (4) that involves the expenditure of labor or money; (5) that is designed to make the property more useful or valuable; and (6) that is not an ordinary repair.”