Company could not deduct foreign-source dividend income when calculating its net operating losses for Indiana tax purposes.
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Ind. Patient’s Comp. Fund v. Holcomb, No. 49S05-1404-CC-209, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Aug. 26, 2014).
Indiana’s Medical Malpractice Act’s cap on attorney fees from a Patient Compensation Fund award does not reduce the Fund’s liability.
Gomillia v. State, No. 49S02-1408-CR-521, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Aug. 12, 2014).
Affirms “this basic premise” – “[w]here a trial court’s reason for imposing a sentence greater than the advisory sentence includes material elements of the offense, absent something unique about the circumstances that would justify deviating from the advisory sentence, that reason is ‘improper as a matter of law.’”
Guilmette v. State, No. 71S04-1310-CR-705, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Aug. 13, 2014).
Police do not need a separate warrant to test lawfully seized evidence which is unrelated to the crime for which the defendant is in custody.
Erkins v. State, No. 58S01-1309-CR-586, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., July 22, 2014).
When charge was conspiracy to commit robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, the State was not required to prove there was actual serious bodily injury; amendment changing the allegation of the particular conspirator who committed the overt act required for conspiracy was of form only and was properly allowed in this case.