Probation officers were entitled to quasi-judicial immunity because their actions were so integral to or intertwined with the judicial process that they were considered an arm of the court.
J. Kirsch
Linares v. El Tacarajo, No. 18A-CT-276, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 8, 2019).
Using the Goodwin foreseeability analysis, an automobile salvage business did not have a duty to a patron of a mobile food truck serving food in its parking lot that exploded and caused injury to the patron.
Tuell v. State, No. 18A-CR-1186, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Jan. 15, 2019).
The current version of the habitual offender statute allows a court to use that enhancement to a conviction of operating a motor vehicle after forfeiture for life even though that is a progressive penalty.
EngineAir, Inc. v. Centra Credit Union, No. 36A01-1709-CT-2177, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 24, 2018).
Indiana’s version of the Uniform Commercial Code has displaced any cause of action that the companies may have against depository bank for depositing fraudulent checks; case was properly dismissed under T.R. 12(B)(6).
Payne v. State, No. 79A02-1707-CR-1606, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 28, 2018).
State must authenticate defendant’s signature on plea agreement entered in prior violent felony in order sustain a conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm by serious violent felon.