Ind. Code 34-11-2-11.5 is the statute of limitations for Environmental Legal Actions; as soon as a person incurs a cleanup cost, the ten-year period starts to run with respect to that cost.
Civil
State v. Norfolk So. Railway Co., No. 18S-IF-193, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Sept. 24, 2018).
The Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act preempts Indiana’s blocked-railroad crossing statute.
Rainbow Realty Group, Inc. v. Carter, No. 49A02-1707-CC-1473, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 27, 2018).
Rent-to-buy agreement is not a lease subject to the Landlord-Tenant Act.
Gates v. O’Connor, No. 18A-CT-58, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 13, 2018).
Because the designated evidence negates the proximate cause element of the legal malpractice claim, the trial court properly granted summary judgment.
Cox v. Evansville Police Dept., No. 18S-CT-447, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Sept. 13, 2018).
Cities may be liable under the respondeat superior scope-of-employment rule for sexual assaults by on-duty police officers, but the common-carrier exception does not apply.