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Indiana’s top legal stories of 2025
| IL Staff
From the immigration crackdown that brought hundreds of detainees to Indiana jails to the Indiana Senate’s rejection of mid-cycle redistricting, the state saw plenty of legal news in 2025. See what story our staff picked as the top legal story of the year.
Our most-read online stories in 2025
| IL Staff
There’s no mistaking that our readers gravitate to stories about attorneys and judges being disciplined by the Indiana Supreme Court. Half of our 10 most popular online stories in 2025 involved attorney discipline.
Melissa Hamer: A year loaded with environmental regulatory changes
Between Supreme Court rewrites of familiar statutes, extended methane deadlines, and Indiana’s new stormwater and water-pipeline rules, our regulated community spent 2025 chasing certainty.
Blake Hartz: A look at the year when generative AI became ‘legal’
The problem many AI companies have encountered is that their enormous training datasets contain enormous amounts of copyrighted content.
Trump’s executive order on AI creating uncertainty for businesses
The order seeking to preempt state regulation of artificial intelligence has added another wrinkle as attorneys attempt to advise their clients on AI usage and how to mitigate risk, as more and more companies incorporate the technology into their business practices.
Ashley Hart: Handling grief during the holidays
Grief is a Long Play LP all on its own. It’s an intense collection of our losses, amplified by the expectations of the season. Many times, it is not the Hallmark movie soundtrack that we had in mind.
Dustin Houchin: Providing a furlough from jail is tradition, not state law
Much of what goes on in courtrooms is based on tradition and folklore rather than the text of the law. Take the furlough as an example.
REWIND: Just months before his death, Ken Nunn described his love of the law
Ken Nunn, one of Indiana’s most prominent personal injury attorneys, died Dec. 24 at the age of 85. In February, The Indiana Lawyer Podcast sat down with him and asked him to reflect on his decades-long career.
5 legal issues to watch in the 2026 Legislature
The Indiana General Assembly is preparing for an abbreviated legislative session, but lawmakers will still delve into legal issues dealing with immigration, capital punishment and the removal process for prosecutors and Marion Superior Court judges.
Kayla Goodfellow: December doesn’t provide the recipe for having it all
There are times during the year when I can maintain the pleasant illusion of control. December offers no such mercy.
IndyBar: President’s Update
I want to take a moment to reflect on what an incredible honor it has been for me to serve as president of the Indianapolis Bar Association.
IndyBar: Rock Stars of the Bar: IndyBar’s Got Talent Returns to The Vogue
The gavel isn’t the only thing Indianapolis lawyers know how to drop.
IndyBar: IndyBar Paralegal Committee Successfully Collects 300+ Teddy Bears for Eskenazi Hospital Patients
IndyBar’s Paralegal Committee partnered with Eskenazi Hospital’s Emergency Department to help spread a little Christmas comfort by sponsoring a Teddy Bear Challenge at the Paralegal Holiday Luncheon.
Rokita, Braun push for Ten Commandments monument to be placed on Statehouse lawn
If the motion were accepted, it would overturn an over 20-year-old injunction stemming from a lawsuit filed by the Indiana Civil Liberties Union (now known as the ACLU of Indiana) to prevent the monument’s placement, an effort the ICLU argued would constitute an unlawful establishment of religion.
Indiana AG joins 23 states in support of Trump passport policy on biological sex listings
Indiana is one of 24 states, as well as the Arizona Legislature, that joined the amicus brief. Rokita authored the brief and his office issued a news release regarding the brief, which was filed Monday.
Chief Justice Rush appoints three new members to Commission on Court Appointed Attorneys
Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Loretta Rush appointed three new members to the court’s Commission on Court Appointed Attorneys, which plays an important role in establishing the state’s public defense infrastructure.
Opinions December 30, 2025
Indiana Court of Appeals
In re: the Marriage of: Kevin Weinzapfel v. Melissa Weinzapfel
25A-DR-1102
Domestic relations with children. Reverses the portion of the Vanderburgh Superior Court’s order regarding the father’s child support obligation and remands for recalculation of Father’s parenting time credit and support obligation. Finds the trial court erred when it gave the father parenting credit of 98 overnights in its calculation of his child support obligation because no evidence existed to support that decision and the trial court did not explain its deviation as required by Indiana Child Support Guideline 6. Also on remand, asks the trial court to include a finding to explain to the father why it discontinued the reduction of the father’s child support obligation based on his assignment of the majority of the marital debt. Also finds the trial court did not err when it determined the son did not repudiate his relationship with the father and thus the father was responsible for a portion of post-secondary expenses. Additionally, the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it credited the CDV Benefit to the son’s portion of college expenses. Attorney for appellant: Katherine Worman. Attorney for appellee: Jeff Shoulders.
New Hamilton County prosecutor Kocher to be sworn in, replaces retiring Garrison
The Hamilton County Republican Party has selected Chief Deputy Prosecutor Josh Kocher to fill the vacancy left by Hamilton County Prosecutor Greg Garrison, who officially retired last week due to health concerns.
Judge dismisses criminal case against TikTok streamer held in immigration detention
U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin issued a ruling Saturday dismissing an indictment against Carlitos Ricardo Parias, who is known for documenting police and immigration enforcement activity online.
