A police booking printout was “administrative,” not investigative, and hence was admissible under the public record hearsay exception; the booking printout also was not “testimonial” under the Crawford confrontation rule.
Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library v. Charlier Clark & Linard, P.C., No. 06S05-0907-CV-332, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., June 29, 2010)
Primarily because Plaintiff is connected with the construction Defendants through a network or chain of contracts in which the parties allocated their respective risks, duties, and remedies, those contracts, and not negligence law, govern the outcome of Plaintiff’s claims.
League of Women Voters of Indiana v. Rokita, No. 49S02-1001-CV-50, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., June 30, 2010)
Indiana Voter ID Law does not, on its face, contravene Article 2, Section 2 (on electors’ qualifications) or Article 1, Section 23 (on equal privileges and immunities) of the Indiana Constitution.
T.N. v. B.D., No. 49A02-0907-JV-693, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., June 29, 2010)
Trial court’s order prohibiting Mother from discussing with the media the knowledge she obtained independent of juvenile proceedings was an invalid prior restraint on Mother’s free speech rights.
Harrison v. Veolia Water Indianapolis, LLC, No. 49A04-0912-CV-722, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., June 29, 2010)
Water company was not a governmental entity or a political subdivision of the State entitled to the protections of the Indiana Tort Claims Act.