Trial court did not abuse its discretion by excluding proposed evidence of the lack of a recording of an incident at a jail (and the corresponding negative inference therefrom), because the proponent of the evidence failed to comply with the court’s discovery and pretrial orders.
Butler v. Indiana Dep't of Ins., No. 49S05-0805-CV-216, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., Apr. 7, 2009)
Under Ind. Code § 34-23-1-2 (1999) on the wrongful death of unmarried adults with no dependents, if medical providers issue statements of charges for health care services but thereafter accept a reduced amount in full satisfaction of the charges due to contractual arrangements with the patient’s health insurers, Medicare, or Medicaid, the amount recoverable for reasonable medical and hospital expenses necessitated by the alleged wrongful conduct is the total amount ultimately accepted after such contractual adjustments, not the total of charges billed.
In re Adoption of Infants H, No. 29S02-0904-CV-140, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., Apr. 8, 2009)
Supreme Court reversed trial court’s final adoption order, because it was improper to waive various legislative safeguards designed to protect infants who are proposed for adoption, including the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children.
Rivera v. Illinois, No. 07-9995, __ U.S. __ (Mar. 27, 2009)
State law, not the Constitution, determines the consequences of an erroneous denial of a peremptory challenge, when all jurors selected are qualified and unbiased.
Tyler v. State, No. 69S04-0801-CR-3, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Mar. 31, 2009)
[A] party may not introduce testimony via the Protected Person Statute if the same person testifies in open court as to the same matters.