An attorney cannot litigate an award of attorney fees separate and apart from the client.
Civil
City of New Albany v. Board of Commissioners of the County of Floyd, No. 19S-MI-674__ N.E.3d __ (Ind., March 23, 2020).
Turn-over provision in the lease between the county and the building authority is valid and enforceable.
Salyer v. Washington Regular Baptist Church Cemetery, No. 20S-PL-102, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., March 11, 2020).
Gravesite purchaser, who discovered that the cemetery resold the gravesite and allowed someone else to be buried there, is entitled to correction of the wrongful burial.
In re Name Change and Gender Change of R.E., No. 19A-MI-2562, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., March 12, 2020).
Administrative Rule 9 does not require petitioner present evidence of actual or imminent harm from the publication of a gender change petition. To obtain a change to the gender marker on his birth certificate, petitioner must only show the request was made in good faith and not for a fraudulent or unlawful purpose.
Estabrook v. Mazak Corp., No. 19S-CQ-590, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., March 2, 2020).
Ind. Code 34-20-3-1(b) is a statute of repose that cannot be extended by a manufacturer’s post-delivery repair, refurbishment or reconstruction of the disputed product.