Where drunk driver injured plaintiff-pedestrian while driver was speaking on her cell phone with defendant (who was following driver in another car), trial court erred in dismissing plaintiff’s complaint alleging that defendant gratuitously undertook a duty to protect plaintiff from the driver and that defendant was acting in concert with the driver.
N. Vaidik
Bond v. State, No. 71A03-0910-CR-457, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Apr. 21, 2010)
Defendant failed to show that selection of his jury from Judicial Center list violated Sixth Amendment’s “fair cross section” requirement.
Nasser v. St. Vincents Hospital and Health Services, No. 49A02-0910-CV-955, __ N.E.2d__ (Ind. Ct. App., Apr. 14, 20010)
Medical causation opinion of nurse serving on medical review panel was not admissible as expert opinion under Evidence Rule 702 and thus could not be used in resolving summary judgment motion.
Julie C. v. Andrew C., No. 49A05-0909-CV-523, __N.E.2D__ (Ind. Ct. App., Mar. 30, 2010)
Change in visitation to seven nights every two weeks was a de facto change of custody subject to the statutes on custody modification. When considering changing a decree for joint legal custody, the court must consider the joint legal custody factors in IC 31-17-2-15 in addition to the standard factors in IC 31-17-2-8.
Runyon v. State, No. 57A04-0910-CR-575, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Mar. 11, 2010)
When a person convicted of nonsupport of a dependent must pay support as a condition of probation, he has the burden to prove he was unable to pay at a revocation for having failed to make the support payments.