Lawsuits

Simon daughter questions using father's estate to pay donations

March 2, 2010
Greg Andrews
Pledges to St. Vincent, Indianapolis Museum of Art should be paid by trusts, foundations affiliated with Bren Simon, court papers allege.
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Millionaire lawyer jumps into Melvin Simon will fight

February 20, 2010
Greg Andrews
Mike Ciresi, who’s representing widow Bren Simon, helped win a $6 billion settlement from the tobacco industry.
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Union representing Indianapolis Star employees sues Gannett

February 20, 2010
 IBJ Staff
The 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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Judge places Fair Finance into bankruptcy

February 19, 2010
Greg Andrews
A federal trustee will take control of the company's assets while securities-fraud probes continue.
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Banks suing Broadbent, pushing one strip center into bankruptcy

February 13, 2010
Peter Schnitzler
Locally 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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PTS sues Roche Diagnostic to end blood-monitor royalties

February 13, 2010
J.K. Wall
Polymer 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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Lawsuit could bring NCAA financials to light

February 10, 2010
Anthony Schoettle
Lawyers 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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IPL sues engineering consultant over Eagle Valley discharge

February 6, 2010
 IBJ Staff
Indianapolis 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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Brizzi contributor Epperly no stranger to controversy

February 6, 2010
Greg Andrews
Harrison Epperly has made a fortune in his business career, but he's also sparked controversy.
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Deborah Simon says other potential trustees have conflicts

February 2, 2010
Greg Andrews
Melvin 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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Litigation slows entrepreneur behind laser weapons, flying scooterRestricted Content

January 30, 2010
Chris O'Malley
Anderson 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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Simon Property Group enters dispute over founder's fortune

January 25, 2010
Cory Schouten
Simon 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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Bank says Durham had no right to sell Duesenberg

January 18, 2010
Greg Andrews
A 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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Durham trailer-maker sued for nearly $1M

January 14, 2010
Greg Andrews
First Merchants Bank is seeking nearly $1 million from Tim Durham and his companies through a recently filed loan-default lawsuit.
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Dow Agro in legal skirmish over canola oil

January 14, 2010
Bloomberg News
Indianapolis-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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Simon family fight breaks out over billionaire's fortune

January 8, 2010
Greg Andrews
Melvin 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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Former cemetery owner avoids prison time

January 8, 2010
Scott Olson
Robert 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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Accountant files suit against former firm, partner

January 4, 2010
Scott Olson
A 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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Real estate lawsuit pits Situs vs. Situs

December 31, 2009
Peter Schnitzler
Texas real estate consultancy sues local brokerage over rights to name they both share.
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Judge approves concrete price-fixing settlement

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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Fair Finance investors file additional fraud suit

December 22, 2009
Greg Andrews
More 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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Freight Masters files bankruptcy after losing business from Chrysler, BoeingRestricted Content

December 19, 2009
Chris O'Malley
The 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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Judge fines woman waging Web war against plastic surgeon

December 19, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Judge 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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Local funeral home operator interested in troubled Memory Gardens

December 16, 2009
Scott Olson
Indianapolis-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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Editorial writers lose appeal against Star

December 9, 2009
Jennifer Nelson / The Indiana Lawyer
Two 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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