Today we begin with a case from last week out of the Indiana Court of Appeals: Weinberger v. Estate of Barnes. I had planned to write a post dedicated to this case last week, but the week got away from me. This case is part of a line of cases best known as the...
This week’s installment of the Hoosier Litigation Blog is a short but useful piece for Indiana practitioners. In today’s post we take a look at a very meaningful difference between the federal and Indiana state court standard for summary judgment. We do this through...
For those who are not regular readers of the Hoosier Litigation Blog: (i) become a regular reader; and (ii) welcome to my little secret, there is, perhaps, only one thing I enjoy writing about more than a good Seventh Circuit class action decision and that is a good...
On Wednesday, November 27, 2013, the Indiana Court of Appeals handed down its decision in the case Bell v. The Bryant Company, Inc. The case addressed three issues of legal significance: (1) the interpretation of contracts; (2) the duties of an agent to its principal;...
Today, we return to one of our more frequent topics for discussion on the Hoosier Litigation Blog: the Indiana Medical Malpractice Act. Many of our prior discussions have looked at the procedural process of bringing a medical malpractice case in Indiana. Such...
After a couple weeks of silence here on the Hoosier Litigation Blog, due largely to a pressing workload that prevented me from issuing my weekly installment, we return to a case that I have been wanting to discuss for two weeks now. On October 30, 2013, the 7th...
Today our discussion looks at a decision from the Indiana Supreme Court that I have been anxiously anticipating ever since the court granted transfer at the end of January. In a prior installment, we discussed the court of appeals' decision in Kesling v. Hubler...
After a week off, the Hoosier Litigation Blog returns with a case of contract interpretation. Of course we have discussed contract law numerous times before on the HLB, but today’s case is a bit different from our prior discussions. In the past, we have discussed...
This week’s case discussion provides a rare triple dip in so much as a single case addresses a host of topics worth discussing. Despite numerous other decisions this week from the Indiana Court of Appeals and the Seventh Circuit that may have merited a spot in our...
After a couple weeks of near silence, the Seventh Circuit returned in force issuing eight opinions. However, the court seemed to be suffering from a tad bit of a hangover from its lull, resulting in two of the decisions requiring an order correcting errors. That said,...