(emphasis added). As explained in Serletic v. Noel, 700 N.E.2d 1159, 1161 (Ind.Ct.App.1998), under the law-of-the-case doctrine, a trial court is not bound by its own earlier rulings unless they have been adopted by an appellate court’s decision. This rule prevents the unseemly possibility that a trial court might be unable to correct its own, earlier ruling that it later finds to be erroneous only because of the fact of its earlier ruling. Here, although Care Centers attempted to appeal the trial court’s earlier ruling, the appeal was dismissed as untimely, and the trial court’s ruling was not adopted by an appellate court’s decision. The law-of-the-case doctrine is therefore inapplicable. See Mafnas v. Owen Cnty. Office of Family & Children, 699 N.E.2d 1210, 1212 (Ind. Ct.App.1998) (<HOLDING>); White River Conservancy Dist. v. Commonwealth
holding that issues not raised in the initial brief on appeal are deemed abandoned holding that issues not raised in an initial brief on appeal are deemed abandoned holding that issues not raised before a district court are waived on appeal holding that an issue not raised on appeal is waived holding that issues were not waived on subsequent appeal when initial appeal was dismissed