Claim against hospital for loss of childbirth records was one for medical malpractice. Health records maintenance statutes do not confer a private right of action for loss of records. Parents have no independent action for spoliation against the hospital.
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Carpenter v. State, No. 49S02-1104-CR-198, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., July 21, 2011)
“A complete review of Carpenter’s criminal history reveals that—although ample in number and clearly a recidivist—his crimes are of the type where a forty-year sentence is inappropriate.”
Lewis v. State, No. 49S02-1010-CR-00619, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., July 11, 2011).
There was no search when the traffic stop officer “needed to speak with the passenger and lowered his head down to her level” and, “[i]n the process, . . . saw a gun that was plainly visible between the driver’s seat and center console.”
Lemmon V. Harris, No. 52S02-1011-CV-642, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., June 28, 2011)
1994 sex offender’s transformation “by operation of law” into sexually violent predator under 2007 legislation did not violate Indiana ex post facto protections or Indiana separation of powers provision.
Moore V. State, No. 49S04-1101-CR-24, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. June 28, 2011)
Defendant, a passenger in a car “in a state of intoxication caused by the person’s use of alcohol or a controlled substance,” was properly convicted of public intoxication, because a vehicle stopped along a highway is “public place or a place of public resort.”