Month: May 2020

Today, we look back to a prognostication I made twice—once in a post for the Hoosier Litigation Blog and the other for Litigation Commentary & Review: Can overzealous challenges to Article III standing lead to foreclosing defendants’ abilities to remove cases from state to federal court? The catalyst for returning to the topic is the Seventh Circuit’s recent decision Bryant…

Today’s discussion returns us to a topic we’ve examined with a tremendous amount of regularity, over the past two years: when is a possessor of land—almost invariably a business—liable for the criminal acts of one person on another. We first looked to the matter following the Indiana Court of Appeals’ ruling in Hamilton v. Steak ’n Shake Operations, Inc., which…