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No Smoking! Indiana’s Smoking Ban Now in Effect!
As of July 1, 2012, Indiana’s new statewide restrictions on smoking in public places and places of employment have become the law. Indiana is the 38th state to enact such a statewide ban. Indiana’s...
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Court Voids $1.5M Contract For Lack Of Consideration
In Yessenow v. Hudson (no. 2:08-cv-00353-PPS-APR), the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana found that the indemnification agreement and guaranty that Hilton Hudson, M.D. signed...
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Seventh Circuit Holds that the ADA Mandates Reassignment of Disabled...
Overruling its own precedent, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (which covers Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin) recently held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires...
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Seventh Circuit Resolves Question of Whether Informal Complaints Can Provide...
Section 510 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) prohibits retaliation “against any person because he has given information or has testified or is about to testify in any inquiry or...
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Seventh Circuit: Employee Not Entitled to Preferred Religious Accommodation...
On November 8, 2012, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Christian employee who objected to working on Sundays because it conflicted with her church attendance lacked a religious...
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Indiana’s Right-to-Work Statute Survives First Challenge While Court...
On February 1, 2012, Indiana became the 23rd “right-to-work” (RTW) state. Since that date, unions have filed two lawsuits in Indiana federal courts hoping to overturn the law on different grounds. One...
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Indiana Supreme Court Allows Day Laborer’s Claim to Proceed Under Indiana...
If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck—then you’d better have a pretty good argument if you don’t want the Indiana Supreme Court to call it a “duck.” The Indiana Supreme...
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