Under Indiana Code section 31-37-19-6, a dispositional decree may, among other things: remove the child from the child’s home and place the child in another home . . . and award wardship to a person, other than the department
Hre v. State, No. 26A-CR-1089, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sep. 22, 2026).
The cost of alternative transportation incurred by a victim who lost the use of a vehicle as a result of the defendant’s criminal conduct is not subject to restitution because it does not fall within any of the restitution statute’s five enumerated statutory categories.
Leonard v. State, No. 26A-IF-365, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sep. 16, 2026).
Squealing tires while departing from a traffic light, standing alone, does not prove that a driver committed the civil infraction of unsafe start.
Harrison County Parks & Rec. v. David Hussung, No. 26A-EX-780, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 4, 2026).
This is the first Indiana case to apply the “moving vehicle” rule set forth in Kovatch, which stated that if an employee is injured “the effects of such a fall are compensable if the employment places the employee in a position increasing the dangerous effects of such a fall, such as on a height, near machinery or sharp corners, or in a moving vehicle.”
Herzog v. State, No. 25A-CR-3169, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 18, 2026).
Requiring the State to amend a probation violation petition to allege that the arrest, new charges, or new case, is now a conviction, rather than merely proceeding on the petition that alleged a pending charge, amounts to merely a matter of form over substance rather than preserving due process.