Indiana Defamation Law
William R. Partin v. Baptist Healthcare System, Inc. d/b/a Baptist Health Floyd and Daniel j. Eichenberger, M.C.
Indianapolis, Indiana civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act violation theory.<br> <br> When Baptist Healthcare System, Inc., decided it no longer desired Dr. William Partin's services, he resigned and filed this lawsuit, alleging that Baptist and its President, Dr. Daniel Eichenberger, retaliated against him in violation of the Emergenc... More...
$0 (04-27-2025 - IN)<h1> United States of America v. Andrezj Boryga </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Indianapolis, Indiana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sending Violent Antisemitic Threats to Anti-Defamation League </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Indiana Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Sending Violent Antisemitic Threats to Anti-Defamation League Offices Across the Country </h2></... More...
$0 (07-24-2024 - IN)Defender Security Company v. First Mercury Insurance Company
Appellant Defender Security Company<br> (“Defender”) purchased a commercial general liability<br> insurance policy from Appellee First Mercury Insurance<br> Company (“First Mercury”). Defender timely tendered a<br> claim to First Mercury, based on a lawsuit filed against Defender<br> in California state court. First Mercury denied coverage<br> and refused to defend Defender in that lawsuit... More...
$0 (09-29-2015 - IN)Charles Poling v. Property Owners Insurance Company
In January of 2009, Appellant-Plaintiff Charles Poling's home was damaged by a fire. Poling subsequently filed an insurance claim with Appellee-Defendant Property Owners Insurance Company ("Property Ownersâ€). Poling initiated the instant matter after the parties were unable to agree upon the amount of the loss covered by Poling's insurance policy.1 In doing so, Poling sought the appointment ... More...
$0 (02-13-2014 - IN)Emilio Martino v. Western & Southern Financial Group
Emilio Martino, a naturalized United States citizen born in Italy, worked briefly as a sales representative for Western & Southern Financial Group ("W&Sâ€). Less than two months after W&S hired Martino, the company terminated his employment.<br><br>Martino sued W&S for religious discrimination under Title VII and for defamation. Martino alleged, among other claims, that W&S discharged him bas... More...
$0 (04-25-2013 - IN)State Farm Fire & Casualty Company v. Joesph Martin Radcliff
In April 2006, central Indiana suffered a large hailstorm. Joseph Radcliff formed a company to repair the storm-damaged homes. State Farm Fire & Casualty Company began denying many of its policyholders' claims even though other insurance companies were paying similar claims. Radcliff and his company offered to help the State Farm policyholders. Amid a flurry of bad publicity about State Farm's cla... More...
$14500000 (04-13-2013 - IN)Kristine P. Purcell v. Bank of America
According to a complaint filed in state court, Bank of America told credit agencies that Kristine Purcell is behind in payments on a loan, even though the Bank knows that she isn't. If Purcell's allegations are correct, then the Bank has violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. §1681s–2(a), and perhaps state law too. The Bank removed the suit to federal court and moved for judgm... More...
$0 (10-03-2011 - IN)Freddie McKnight v. Curtis Hill, Jr. and William Wargo
Freddie McKnight ("McKnightâ€) filed a complaint in Elkhart Superior Court against Curtis Hill Jr. ("Hillâ€), the County Prosecutor, and William Wargo, Sr. ("Wargoâ€), an investigator for the Prosecutor"s Office, for statements they made to the press concerning McKnight"s identification of individuals involved in the Elkhart County drug trade. Specifically, McKnight claimed that Hil... More...
$0 (08-10-2011 - IN)Howard Regional Health System d/b/a Howard Community Hospital v. Jacob Z. Gordon
Jacob Gordon's mother sued Howard Community Hospital, alleging it committed medical malpractice while caring for her son. In another count of the complaint, she sought separate damages for spoliation, saying the Hospital had lost certain medical records associated with Gordon's care and that this loss made it impossible for Gordon to pursue a medical malpractice claim against one of his doctors, w... More...
$0 (08-10-2011 - IN)In Re: Richard Bergeron
Rich Bergeron asks us to remove the judge presiding in Eppley v. Iacovelli, a case pending in the district court. Bergeron had repeatedly asked her, without success, to recuse herself.<br><br>Eppley, a plastic surgeon, had sued Iacovelli, a former patient, in 2009 for defamation and other alleged wrongs arising from Iacovelli's dissatisfaction with the face-lift operation that Eppley had performed... More...
$0 (03-04-2011 - IN)Tamike Jones v. Res-Care, Inc. and Shane McFall
Tamika Jones filed suit against her employer, Res-Care, Inc., and another Res-Care employee, Shane McFall, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Jones alleged discrimination because of race and retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Jones also brought claims under state law for slander per se, negligent supervision and vicarious liability u... More...
$0 (07-18-2010 - IN)Thomas Williams and Sanford Kelsey v. Kelly Eugene Tharp and Papa John's U.S.A., Inc.
This appeal challenges the trial court's grant of summary judgment which found privi-leged a restaurant employee's statements to a passerby and a police officer that a customer had "pulled a gun" inside the store. The plaintiffs, Sanford Kelsey and Thomas Williams, respective-ly, the suspected gun carrier and his companion (neither of whom actually had a gun), sued the restaurant operator, Papa Jo... More...
$0 (10-13-2009 - IN)Jeff Maynard v Tribune Star
Jeff Maynard sued the Tribune Star newspaper on a defamation theory claiming that defendant published stores about him after he was accused of wrongdoing by a Clay City woman who made allegations of misconduct following a February 28, 2004, traffic stop. Maynard contended that the Tribune-Star published two articles in March and April of 2004 containing allegations against him that "were false and... More...
$1500000 (07-25-2008 - IN)Beverly R. Newman v. Jewish Community Center Association of Indianapolis, Inc., et al.
<P>Beverly Newman and her daughter, Julie Sondhelm, have an extremely volatile relationship, as detailed in our memorandum decision dismissing Newman's appeal from the trial court's denial of her petition for grandparent visitation with Sondhelm's children, M.S. and K.S. In re Visitation of M.S. & K.S., No. 29A05-0606-CV-322, slip op. at 1-2 (Ind. Ct. App. Jan. 24, 2007). While the harmful effects... More...
$0 (10-31-2007 - IN)<a href="http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions/archive/08150201.mgr.html' target="_new">Poyser v. Peerless</a>
Karen Poyser filed a defamation lawsuit against St. Richard's School, her former employer, David Peerless and Claudia Hilligoss, her supervisors at the school, the St. Richard's Board of Directors, and Karen Dorfman, president of the Board (collectively referred to as "the School"). The School moved for summary judgment, which motion was granted by the trial court. Poyser now appeals the summary j... More...
$0 (08-15-2002 - IN)<a href="http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/op3.fwx?submit1=showop&caseno=02-2427.PDF" target="_new">Norman Meyerson v. Showboat Marina Casino Partnership d/b/a Harrah's East Chicago Casino</a>
Three years ago Harrah's East Chicago Casino (the trade name of Showboat Marina Casino Partnership) fired Norman Meyerson. He filed two suits in response: one in federal court alleging defamation, and the other in state court alleging wrongful discharge. Showboat removed the second, invoking the diversity jurisdiction. See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1332(a)(1), 1441(a). The district court entered judgm... More...
$0 (12-06-2002 - IN)<a href="http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions/archive/07160202.gbh.html" target="_new">Vron Mishler and Dianne Mishler v. MAC Systems, Inc.</a>
The Mishlers filed a suit for damages against MAC. MAC answered and raised counterclaims on the basis of breach of contract and libel/slander. MAC also petitioned the court to issue an injunction enjoining the Mishlers from "[m]aking verbal or written statements to members of the public regarding the character, qualifications, workmanship or reputation of MAC" and "[d]isplaying signs referring, in... More...
$0 (07-16-2002 - IN)<a href="http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions/completed/08150201.mgr.html" target="_new">Karen K. Poyser v. David Peerless, et al.</a>
Karen Poyser filed a defamation lawsuit against St. Richard's School, her former employer, David Peerless and Claudia Hilligoss, her supervisors at the school, the St. Richard's Board of Directors, and Karen Dorfman, president of the Board (collectively referred to as "the School"). The School moved for summary judgment, which motion was granted by the trial court. Poyser now appeals the summary j... More...
$0 (09-17-2002 - IN)<a href="http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/op3.fwx?submit1=showop&caseno=01-1993.PDF" target="_new">Norman Meyerson v. Harrah's East Chicago Casino, et al.</a>
The plaintiff brought this suit, pro se, against his former employer, Harrah's East Chicago Casino, and three of the casino's employees, charging defamation and basing federal jurisdiction, necessarily, on diversity. His complaint alleged that he "resides in the State of Michigan," but residence and citizenship are not synonyms and it is the latter that matters for purposes of the diversity ... More...
$0 (07-11-2002 - IN)<a href="http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions/archive/02280204.pdm.html" target="_new">Richard Beeching and National Education Assoc. v. Carol Levee</a>
Carol Levee ("Levee"), the principal of Eggleston Elementary School in South Bend, Indiana, sued Richard Beeching, the UNISERV Director, See footnote and the National Education Association–South Bend ("Beeching") for defamation and tortious interference with a contractual relationship. After a jury trial, the trial court granted Levee's motion for mistrial because it determined that the jury had... More...
$850 (02-28-2002 - IN)<a href="http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/op3.fwx?submit1=showop&caseno=01-1588" target="_new">David Goetzke v. Ferro Corporation and Crawford & Company</a>
Ferro Corporation terminated David Goetzke in August 1997 on the ground that he had defrauded it by exaggerating the extent of a work-related injury. In response to his termination, Mr. Goetzke filed this multi-count action in state court against Ferro and Crawford & Company, a third-party administrator retained through Ferro's insurance carrier to administer worker's compensation claims... More...
$0 (02-06-2002 - IN)<a href="http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/op3.fwx?yr=99&num=3057&Submit1=Request+Opinion" target="_new">Doe v. Howe Military School</a>
The two Jane Does before us in this case claim that they suffered from a variety of forms of sexual harassment, abuse, and fraud when they attended Howe Military School, in Howe, Indiana, in the early 1990s. They relied on Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. sec.sec. 1681-88, and a variety of state law theories to support their claims. The district court dismissed all... More...
$0 (09-21-2000 - IN)Journal-Gazette Company, Inc. v. Bandido’s Inc.
Defamation - Bandido's is a Mexican-style restaurant with three locations in Fort Wayne Indiana, and one in Lima, Ohio. On September 13, 1988, the Allen County Board of Public Health conducted a health inspection of the north-side Bandido's in Fort Wayne. In the report, the inspector identified several violations and made the following relevant remarks: "Evidence of flies, roaches and rodents note... More...
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