Indiana Lawyer

Fort Wayne is the latest target of Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita's expanding inquiry into the potential labor trafficking of undocumented immigrants. Managing Editor Daniel Carson explores why Rokita is continuing to use civil investigative demands, a sort of civil subpoena, to seek information in the immigration-related probe despite the approach being successfully challenged in court in Evansville. Reporter Maura Johnson takes a look at the quickly rising number of problem-solving courts across Indiana and how their efforts to help substance abusers and others is requiring a search for alternative funding sources. In Focus, reporter Cameron Shaw examines how the Legislature's efforts to reallocate judges to fast-growing counties is impacting rural communities.