“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.
First American Title Ins. Co. v. Robertson, No. 49S04-1311-PL-732, __N.E.3d __ (Ind., March 26, 2015).
Clarifies conflicting footnote on a Petition for Rehearing.
Sandleben v. State, No. 82A01-1407-CR-284 (Ind. Ct. App., Mar. 17, 2015).
Evidence defendant, “a complete stranger,” followed a girl closely in a store and took video with a small camera twice in nine months, making the girl “nervous and scared,” sufficed for a conviction of stalking; rejects claim that the taking of video was a constitutionally protected expressive activity.
Rutledge v. State, No. 85A04-1407-CR-330, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Mar. 19, 2015).
Circumstances leading to defendant’s OWI arrest amounted to a consensual encounter, but even considering the police action to have been an investigatory stop it was permitted by the Fourth Amendment and Indiana Constitution, Article I, Section 11.