Although under a joint defense agreement privileged information was disclosed, it did not bar one party from suing the other; the “specific claims of privilege will need to be resolved as they are encountered in discovery or at trial.”
J. Sharpnack
Clem v. Watts, No. 60A05-1406-PL-297, N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 18, 2015).
An attorney fee lien is not valid if the lien is filed before judgment is entered.
Bigger v. State, No. 02A03-1308-CR-315, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Mar. 26, 2014).
While no statutes or case law appear to require formal pleading of the defense of abandonment, “[w]e deem necessary the assertion of the defense in some manner.”
Meadows v. State, No. 39A01-1305-CR-215, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Jan. 29, 2014).
Statutes mandating credit for time served for probation and community corrections do not apply to a person in a conviction-deferral drug court program, so that it was within the program judge’s discretion to refuse to award credit for time served when the court terminated the defendant’s placement in the program.
Curtis v. State, No. 49A02-1203-MI-271, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Jan. 29, 2013).
Forfeiture of a vehicle used to sell pirated films is not authorized.