An attorney who is disqualified from representing client in one matter is not automatically disqualified from representing client in another matter if the basis for disqualification no longer exists.
Wihebrink v. State, No. 20S-CR-632, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Jan. 24, 2022).
An appeal waiver, despite a challenge to aggravators or mitigators found by the trial court at the time of sentencing, is enforceable because such a challenge is not one of illegality.
Ceres Solutions Coop., Inc. v. Estate of Bradley, No. 21A-CT-377, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Jan. 12, 2022).
For the bystander rule for negligent infliction of emotional distress, explosion and subsequent fire are not separate injury-producing events for purposes of the temporal factor. Also, the plaintiff did not need to see the body of his wife being removed from the exploded house when he possessed a reasonable degree of certainty that she had been in the house at the time of the explosion.
WTHR-TV v. Hamilton Se. Sch. Dist., No. 21S-MI-345, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Jan. 13, 2022).
Ind. Code § 5-14-3-4(b)(8) requires public agencies to provide certain types of information, but it does not require them to provide the underlying documents.
Ind. Repertory Theatre, No. 21A-PL-628, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Jan. 4, 2022).
Insurance policy language “direct physical loss or direct physical damage” did not encompass theatre’s claim for loss of use of its facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic