Arrest based on police clerk’s report of an active warrant, which was found fifteen minutes later to have been recalled five months earlier, was not subject to the 4th Amendment exclusionary rule, as the police mistake was not “deliberate, reckless, or grossly negligent” nor the result of “circumstances recurring or systemic negligence.”
In re Termination of Parental Rights of J.H., No. 02A05-0807-JV-410, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Jan. 12, 2009)
Indiana Code § 31-32-9-1(d) does not exempt DCS from compliance with service of process Trial Rules, but DCS nevertheless adequately complied with such rules to satisfy due process considerations.
Allied Property & Cas. Ins. Co. v. Good, No. 85A04-0902-CV-89, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Dec. 31, 2009)
If a trial court finds that an attorney or party caused a mistrial by egregiously violating an order in limine, the trial court has the inherent power to sanction him or her.
Wagler v. West Boggs Sewer District, Inc., No. 14S00-0710-CV-397, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., Dec. 24, 2008)
Sewer districts have authority to condemn land via eminent domain.
Newkirk v. Bethlehem Woods Nursing & Rehab. Ctr., LLC, No. 90S05-0812-CV-768, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., Dec. 24, 2008)
The statute of limitations for the Indiana Wrongful Death Act (“WDA”) can expire before the statute of limitations for an underlying substantive tort claim, and vice versa. See also Technisand, Inc. v. Estate of Melton ex rel. Melton, — N.E.2d —, No. 30S01-0801-CV-28, slip op. (Ind. Dec. 24, 2008).