March 2, 2010
Greg AndrewsPledges to St. Vincent, Indianapolis Museum of Art should be paid by trusts, foundations affiliated with Bren Simon, court
papers allege.
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February 20, 2010
Greg AndrewsMike Ciresi, who’s representing widow Bren Simon, helped win a $6 billion settlement from the tobacco industry.
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February 20, 2010
IBJ StaffThe 178-member union is suing to preserve its arbitration rights, and possibly win back the jobs of eight people who were
let go last summer.
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February 19, 2010
Greg AndrewsA federal trustee will take control of the company's assets while securities-fraud probes continue.
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February 13, 2010
Peter SchnitzlerLocally based Broadbent Co.’s legal battles with lenders have escalated, pushing one of its 34 strip malls into bankruptcy
and prompting Huntington National Bank and PNC Bank to sue to collect principal owed on loans tied to four more.
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February 13, 2010
J.K. WallPolymer Technology Systems Inc., a small Indianapolis-based maker of handheld blood monitors, has gone to court to fight
a competitor more than 100 times its size: Roche Diagnostics Corp.
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February 10, 2010
Anthony SchoettleLawyers for former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon are promising to expose financial information about NCAA's licensing
contracts the NCAA would rather keep private.
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February 6, 2010
IBJ StaffIndianapolis Power and Light Co. is suing its engineering consultant over an industrial accident that spilled 30 million
gallons of polluted water into White River.
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February 6, 2010
Greg AndrewsHarrison Epperly has made a fortune in his business career, but he's also sparked controversy.
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February 2, 2010
Greg AndrewsMelvin Simon's daughter, who's seeking to remove her stepmother from overseeing a trust that holds her late father Melvin's
fortune, says a corporate trustee is a better option than brother David Simon or family financial adviser Bruce Jacobson.
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January 30, 2010
Chris O'MalleyAnderson entrepreneur Pete Bitar has been slowed by litigation but still plans to spearhead a team in the competition to
put a rover on the moon.
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January 25, 2010
Cory SchoutenSimon Property Group Inc. is suing Bren Simon, the widow of company founder Melvin Simon, over her effort to convert part
of her late husband's ownership stake in the publicly traded mall giant into common shares or cash.
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January 18, 2010
Greg AndrewsA legal brouhaha over the recent auction of a Duesenberg automobile by Tim Durham has taken a new twist, with Durham's bank
charging the financier didn't have the right to sell the car in the first place.
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January 14, 2010
Greg AndrewsFirst Merchants Bank is seeking nearly $1 million from Tim Durham and his companies through a recently filed loan-default
lawsuit.
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January 14, 2010
Bloomberg NewsIndianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences LLC has sued Cooper Industries Plc in an effort to clarify its rights to make a canola-based
fluid used in electrical transformers.
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January 8, 2010
Greg AndrewsMelvin Simon’s
daughter Deborah filed court papers Thursday afternoon charging her father was coerced into approving a
new estate plan in February 2009 that dramatically increased the amount of his fortune going to her stepmother, Bren.
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January 8, 2010
Scott OlsonRobert E. Nelms received an eight-year sentence that will be served through a community corrections program after pleading
guilty to theft and securities fraud.
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January 4, 2010
Scott OlsonA contentious split between two prominent accounting partners is getting even uglier after a lawsuit filed by one of them
has the other pledging to counter sue.
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December 31, 2009
Peter SchnitzlerTexas real estate consultancy sues local brokerage over rights to name they both share.
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December 22, 2009
A federal judge has preliminarily approved a settlement in which a central Indiana concrete company agreed to pay $29 million
to resolve a class-action antitrust lawsuit alleging it and six other companies conspired to fix the price of ready-mixed
concrete.
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December 22, 2009
Greg AndrewsMore than three dozen residents of a northeast Ohio county who invested in Fair Finance Co. are seeking to recover more
than $2.1 million from the shuttered company.
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December 19, 2009
Chris O'MalleyThe minority-owned logistics firm is also involved in a legal battle with a Washington state firm over the loss of its Boeing
business.
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December 19, 2009
IBJ StaffJudge Sarah Evans Barker declared a Massachusetts woman in contempt of court for failing to remove her negative Internet
postings about an Indianapolis cosmetic surgeon.
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December 16, 2009
Scott OlsonIndianapolis-based Wilson St. Pierre Funeral Service & Crematory is one of two companies that have emerged as potential
suitors of the embattled Memory Gardens Management Corp.
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December 9, 2009
Jennifer Nelson / The Indiana LawyerTwo former editorial writers at Indiana's largest newspaper failed to prove they were the victims of religious discrimination,
according to a circuit court of appeals.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.