A state commission found a Florida man can proceed with a civil rights complaint against the Indianapolis-based airline after it allegedly refused to consider him for a flight attendant’s job because of the tattoos on his forearms.
A lawyer from one of the nation’s largest law firms is handling the convicted financier’s federal appeal free of charge, court documents show.
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to side with Monsanto Co. in its claim that an Indiana farmer violated the company's patents on soybean seeds that are resistant to its weed-killer.
The court case poses the question of an Indiana farmer’s actions violated the patent rights held by Monsanto, which developed seeds that survive when farmers spray their fields with Roundup weed-killer. The seeds dominate agriculture, including in Indiana, where more than 90 percent of soybeans are Roundup Ready.
The issue will be decided by Judge Sarah Evans Barker, who presided over a two-week civil trial that saw a federal jury return a $2.2 million judgment against the former CEO of Marsh Supermarkets Inc. late Friday night.
A federal jury returned a $2.2 million judgment against iconic Marsh Supermarkets CEO Don Marsh late Friday, finding that he tapped corporate coffers for personal expenses.
A company lawyer itemized the expenses Marsh Supermarkets believes it is owed during closing arguments Friday. A lawyer for Don Marsh argued that he neither committed fraud nor breached his contract.
An Indianapolis drywall contractor faces criminal charges that he underpaid his employees working on a government housing project, and then falsified documents to cover it up, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday.
The panel of nine will begin closed-door discussions Friday afternoon following closing arguments from attorneys representing Marsh Supermarkets Inc. and the former CEO of the company accused of spending $3.3 million of company funds on personal expenses.
Manuel Gonzalez has been acquitted of three counts of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering in connection with a scheme that targeted an Indianapolis physician. Former City-County Councilor Paul Bateman pleaded guilty last month to participating in the scheme.
Lawyers for Don Marsh got their first chance to go on the offensive Wednesday after Marsh Supermarkets Inc. rested its case against the company’s former CEO.
The former Marsh Supermarkets president told jurors: “Every time I used [the plane] I had a time constraint, and my time was valuable to the company.”
Any feelings of satisfaction that Sun Capital Partners executives had after completing the acquisition of Marsh Supermarkets Inc. quickly turned to “shock and surprise,” a managing director of the private-equity firm told jurors Tuesday.
At least twice a month during the year 2000, the pilot told jurors, he ferried Don Marsh to New York City to visit one of his mistresses. Marsh Supermarkets is suing its former CEO in an attempt to recoup more than $3 million in what it claims are personal expenses.
An Indianapolis physician who lost $1.7 million in a fraud scheme orchestrated in part by former Democratic City-County Councilor Paul C. Bateman Jr. has sued Bateman and two associates in Marion Circuit Court. The civil lawsuit comes as a criminal trial stemming from the case begins in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry says he won’t seek the death penalty for three people charged in the deadly Indianapolis house explosion, because a jury is unlikely to choose that option.
St. Elmo Steakhouse owner Stephen Huse testified that directors had a hard time keeping Don Marsh focused on a potential sale of the company as it teetered toward insolvency.
The former executive of Marsh Supermarkets Inc. said he became so concerned about the company’s deteriorating finances less than a decade ago that he took the desperate step of meeting with bankruptcy lawyers.
Purdue University is opening up intellectual property rights to student-inventors who make technological breakthroughs using university resources.
Christine Nelson was held hostage by a man who was fatally shot as he tried to rob a northwest-side Kroger. She alleges that witnessing the incident caused her "extreme mental anguish and emotional distress."
