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Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb will select one of three magistrate judges to fill the vacancy on the Lake Superior Court created when Judge Elizabeth Tavitas was appointed to the Indiana Court of Appeals this summer. The Lake County Judicial Nominating Commission late Tuesday named magistrate judges Lisa A. Berdine, Thomas P. Hallett and Nanette K. Raduenz as finalists to succeed Tavitas in Lake Superior Court 3, family division.
Indiana Supreme Court
State of Indiana v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company
18S-IF-193
Infraction. Finds Indiana’s blocked-crossing statute which prevents trains from blocking intersections for more than 10 minutes is pre-empted by the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act. Holds that Indiana’s statute, Ind. Code section 8-6-7.5-1, violates the ICCTA’s prohibition on managing or governing rail transportation by causing Norfolk Southern to change several key operations just to try to comply.
A unanimous Indiana Supreme Court sent a message Tuesday to Hoosier motorists stuck at railroad crossings waiting for trains to pass: relax, you’re going to be there awhile. The court struck down a state law limiting blocked crossings to 10 minutes, holding that such regulations were pre-empted by federal law.
The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed a decision that found an attorney’s alleged misconduct would not have resulted in a different outcome of a man’s guilty plea for health care fraud.
Former television star and comedian Bill Cosby has been sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison and must register as a sexually violent predator for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home more than a decade ago.
Lake Superior magistrate judges Kathleen Belzeski and Nanette Raduenz are being described by the local legal community as best qualified for the vacancy in Lake Superior Court, family law division.
Judge Robert Wilkins of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will be returning to his home state of Indiana to deliver the 7th Annual Birch Bayh Lecture at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
The Indiana Supreme Court has issued several orders amending rules of the court. Among them is a change that requires any appellate party to seek court permission to amend a filed appendix, and allows trusts and trustees to represent claims of less than $1,500 without counsel in small claims cases.
An Indianapolis attorney must pay a $1,000 fine for failing to appear in federal court to defend a teen being tried as an adult in an alleged gang-related killing and an armed robbery of a Broad Ripple-area pharmacy.
Brett Kavanaugh says he won’t let “false accusations drive me out of this process” as he, President Donald Trump and top Republicans mount an aggressive drive to rally the public and GOP senators behind his shaky Supreme Court nomination.
A former western Indiana school chief faces three felony counts of bribery for allegedly accepting gifts from a vendor.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Delmar Kelly v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
18A-CR-1162
Criminal. Affirms Delmar Kelly’s dealing in narcotics conviction. Finds the Hendricks Superior Court did not commit fundamental error in allowing the state to present during trial evidence of Kelly’s post-arrest, pre-Miranda silence. Also finds Kelly’s due process rights were not violated.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer to a case on Monday involving a defendant’s motion to suppress evidence from a traffic stop that led to his arrest.
A South Bend attorney was reprimanded by the Indiana Supreme Court on Friday after agreeing that she violated the Rules of Professional Conduct by collecting an unreasonable fee.
Judge James R. Sweeney II of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana was sworn into office at 11 a.m. Monday as the Southern District’s newest judge since 2010.
A suspended Decatur lawyer who faces multiple disciplinary charges — including for accusations that she signed a judge’s name on a phony divorce order and sent emails posing as a deputy prosecutor — has again been suspended for failing to cooperate with investigations.
An appeals court has upheld the conviction of a man who was found guilty of robbing the same central Indiana bank twice about 15 months apart.
An indicted northwestern Indiana mayor is maintaining that prosecutors used a confidential informant to improperly know they had more time to investigate the case.
A second allegation of sexual misconduct has emerged against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a development that has further imperiled his nomination to the Supreme Court, forced the White House and Senate Republicans onto the defensive and fueled calls from Democrats to postpone further action on his confirmation.
One has realized her dream of being mayor of her hometown and the other is leading in a legal field that has typically attracted more men than women. Neither likes the spotlight, preferring to share any recognition, but both are credited with carving new paths for women and mentoring the next generation.