Employment Case Results:
Employment
(due to the confidential nature of most settlements only generalities can be described)
- Negotiated six figure severance package from fortune 500 company based on sexual harassment of a company executive.
- Negotiated covenant not to compete for publishing industry executive
- Negotiated whistleblower settlement based upon health care fraud allegations.
- Won jury trial in age discrimination case
- Dismissal of class action civil lawsuit filed against client seeking recovery of missing funds in the amount of $25 million.
APPEALS:
Perjury Conviction: Reversed. Marlowe v. State
Incarcerated Confidential Informant deemed unreliable: Coleman v. State, 847 N.E.2d 259
New Sentencing Hearings:
Jury Instruction: Overturned. the Indiana Supreme Court overruled prior cases that had long allowed instructing the jury about victim’s testimony and held that the giving of such an instruction was error. Ludy v. State, 784 N.E.2d 459.
PROSECUTIONS FOUND TO BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Mueller v. State, 837 N.E.2d 198 (Prosecutor’s diversion program found to be discriminatory)
Smylie v. State, 823 N.E.2d 679, Ms. Sweeney was a part of a team of Amicus Curiae counsel in which the Indiana Supreme Court found the sentencing statutes to be unconstitutional which resulted in the re-writing of the statutes.
Currently pending with the Indiana Court of Appeals is a challenge to the prosecutor’s charging of Performance Harmful To A Minor.
[There is no guarantee the above results can be obtained in other litigation]
Indianapolis employment lawyer Kathleen M. Sweeney represents clients with claims for sexual harassment, race discrimination, qui tam claims, and police abuse. Indiana criminal law attorney Kathleen Sweeney defends clients statewide charged with fraud, homicide, rape, drug offenses, among others in Marion County, Hamilton County, Hendricks County, Johnson County, Lake County, St. Joseph's County, Gary, Elkhart, Terre Haute, Fort Wayne, South Bend, Bloomington, Evansville, Plainfield, Crown Point, Westfield, Carmel, Fishers, Greenwood, Avon, and Danville IN.