Litigant’s persistent abuse of the judicial process and disregard for prior warnings warrant filing restrictions at the trial-court level.
Appeals
In re the Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship of A.W., No. 24A-JT-3052, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Dec. 8, 2025).
In a termination of parental rights case, parents’ due process rights were violated by the trial court’s failure to compel DCS to disclose the names and contact information of child’s foster parents because that information could have led to the discovery of admissible evidence.
First Financial Bank, N.A. v. Vanhoose, No. 25A-CC-898, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Nov. 18, 2025).
A garnishment order is a continuing lien. Employer is liable for the amount of garnished wages that were not remitted after employee was rehired.
Chastain v. State, No. 25A-XP-1105, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 28, 2025).
Petitioner could not supplement his expungement petition to expunge the records from a case that was ineligible for expungement at the time that the petition was filed.
Adkins v. State, No. 25A-PC-438, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Nov. 3, 2025).
Indiana Post-Conviction Rule 1(10) limits a court’s authority to resentence a defendant for the same offense after post-conviction relief. It neither curtails the State’s authority to file a new charge based on new evidence nor restricts the sentencing court from applying the proper statutory range to that conviction.