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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Ind. Courts - "Lawyers seek limits on details in Simon case"

Jeff Swiatek of the Indianapolis Star, who has been covering (see, e.g, this Feb. 3rd ILB entry) the Simon estate dispute, reports today:

Melvin Simon's medical file and wife Bren Simon's household budgets likely will be stamped "confidential" and never see the light of day in Hamilton Superior Court.

Attorneys in the Melvin Simon estate dispute have asked Judge William J. Hughes to set strict ground rules for keeping sensitive records in the case confidential.
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A host of personal matters are likely to enter court records in the case, in which a daughter of the late billionaire Melvin Simon is challenging the legitimacy of his final will in a family fight over one of Indiana's greatest business fortunes.

"These matters should not become a tool for leveraging, for embarrassing . . . for financial harm," said David Beehler, an attorney for Bren Simon, as he suggested several ways of fashioning a confidentiality policy.

Hughes told the nine attorneys for both sides that they were taking confidentiality to new levels. "The parties have gone further with their protective order than the court is used to seeing," he said.

He hopes to rule on the issue next week.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 11, 2010 11:00 AM
Posted to Indiana Courts