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Civil Digest

May 22, 2018

Sufficiency of Evidence – Property Classification

We accepted review in these cases to decide whether an injunction prohibiting agricultural use of a residentially-zoned property controls the property's tax assessment classification.

May 21, 2018

Due Process Violation

American politics is not for the thin‐skinned. In this case, a dispute between an elected school board member and a student outside a high school play escalated quickly.

May 21, 2018

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

In 2010, a jury convicted Petitioner Ivy Tucker of conspiring to distribute more than one gram of heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(A).

May 21, 2018

Sufficiency of Evidence – Expert Testimony

Dr. Anthony Mimms is a physician licensed by the Indiana Medical Licensing Board.

May 21, 2018

False Claims Act

In January 2015, Quinn Heath applied to become an Indianapolis firefighter.

May 21, 2018

6th Amendment Violation

Demarrel Jones was convicted of unlawfully possessing a firearm as a felon.

May 21, 2018

Breach of Contract

Graphics-design firm LimeCoral, Ltd., sued the job website CareerBuilder, LLC, for breach of copyright and breach of an alleged oral agreement to pay LimeCoral for each annual renewal of a graphic design that LimeCoral prepared for a job posting on CareerBuilder’s website.

May 21, 2018

Federal Jurisdiction – Statutory Interpretation

The parties cast this case as one about arbitral immunity, which is the ground on which the district court dismissed the complaint.

May 21, 2018

1st Amendment Violation

Lorenzo Davis worked for Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority.

May 21, 2018

Securities Exchange Fees – SEC – Lack of Jurisdiction

In Citadel Securities, LLC v. Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc., we held that “the district court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing [the] case [of certain securities firms] for failure to exhaust administrative remedies.”

May 21, 2018

Declaratory Judgment – Ordinance Violation – 1st Amendment

HH-Indianapolis, LLC (“HH”), intended to open a retail establishment in Indianapolis under the name “Hustler Hollywood.”

May 21, 2018

Voting Rights – Sex Offender

Plaintiff Brian Valenti is a convicted felon and registered sex offender.

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