Indiana Congresswoman Susan Brooks and Indiana Legal Services executive director Jon Laramore will be part of a Legal Services Corporation panel discussion Wednesday on the opioid epidemic.
Lake County plans to test some of the 240 untested rape kits that are part of a decade-long backlog and make policy changes to help prevent another logjam, officials said.
The Indiana Supreme Court will travel to southern Indiana later this month to hear an oral argument in Owen County. The court announced Thursday it will hear a case involving a 17-year-old’s reported suicide attempt.
The Indianapolis park where Robert Kennedy called for peace and unity just hours after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. has officially been designated a National Historic Site. The designation comes as events at the park mark the 50th anniversary of King’s death.
The Community-Wide Job Fair and Resource Fair on Friday aims to make the transition from prison to employment a bit easier with the help of attorneys and law students, among others.
Demolition has begun at a northwest Indiana public housing complex contaminated with arsenic and lead. Demolition of East Chicago's West Calumet Housing Complex will remove all buildings, foundations, streets and sidewalks, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act at its annual conference Wednesday in Indianapolis. The event also coincides with the date of the slaying of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 50 years ago.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals March 21 Civil Plenary — Establishment Clause Freedom From Religion Foundation v. Concord Community Schools 17-1591, 17-1683 An Elkhart high school’s traditional “Christmas Spectacular” production that was canceled by a northern Indiana federal court because of its overt religiosity, then passed muster when Christian elements no longer took a leading […]
The Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission has received applications from 12 applicants to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Indiana Court of Appeals.
A federal funding boost that created increased hourly rates for federal public defenders has also caused an increase in compensation maximums for non-capital federal defenders.
Proposed amendments to a 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rule would place additional requirements on district courts to ensure case dockets are complete and available upon request of the circuit court.
After the passage of House Enrolled Act 1309 last month, state executive branch employees are beginning newly mandated workplace sexual harassment training today.
The Indiana Court of Appeals will visit opposite ends of the state next week when it travels to Vanderburgh and Blackford Counties for oral arguments.
A series of proposed rule amendments would expand the use of electronic filing in appellate cases and strengthen the right to a jury trial for some misdemeanor offenses, among other proposed changes to Indiana trial and appellate rules.
A nearly $200 million increase in the Fiscal Year 2018 budget is enabling the federal judiciary to increase compensation for jurors and indigent defense attorneys while also performing construction projects at three federal courthouses.
An Indianapolis attorney suspended from the practice of law after the Indiana Supreme Court granted a petition for emergency suspension.
An Indianapolis man was found guilty after a two-day jury trial before Jane Magnus-Stinson, chief judge for the U.S. District Court for Southern District of Indiana, in what prosecutors described as a string of armed pharmacy robberies.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has signed bill that allow for the widespread sale of a cannabis-derived oil as well as legislation to lift a prohibition on immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children from obtaining state professional licenses.
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has announced the opening of its second California location, this time in San Diego. The firm’s first West Coast location opened in 2011 in Los Angeles.
A retired Noble County judge will begin serving as a judge pro tempore in the LaGrange Circuit Court after the sitting judge retires later this year.