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An African woman currently living in Indiana must return her children to their father in Africa after the Indiana Court of Appeals found her home country’s custody laws do not violate fundamental human rights, so Indiana courts lack jurisdiction to strike down her African custody order.
An Indianapolis lawyer suspended amid criminal charges and allegations that he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from his clients’ special-needs trust funds has drawn a harsher rebuke from the Indiana Supreme Court for noncooperation with a disciplinary complaint against him.
The White House is welcoming a congressional measure killing the ability of millions of Americans to band together to sue bank or credit card companies to resolve financial disputes in a major win for Wall Street.
An Indianapolis fertility doctor accused of inseminating patients with his own sperm is expected to plead guilty to charges that he lied to investigators.
A former Fort Wayne Community Schools employee is suing the district, alleging he was wrongfully fired for publicly criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement.
After blocking the state from banning the resettlement of Syrian refugees in Indiana, a refugee organization can continue its litigation against the state after a district court judge denied the state’s motion to stay proceedings while the Supreme Court of the United States reviews a federal travel ban.
The nation’s biggest electric grid operator said a Trump administration plan to change the way electricity is priced to reward coal and nuclear power is unworkable and potentially against the law.
Across Indiana, Hoosiers are committed to community involvement, with 40.2 percent of all Indiana residents belonging to at least one community organization, such as a church or neighborhood group. But while 61.4 percent of Americans voted in 2016, only 58.3 percent of Hoosiers did.
A southern Indiana woman who lashed out at her late boyfriend’s mother on Facebook must pay the consequences, which the Indiana Court of Appeals said Tuesday include monetary damages.
Three convicted Boone County sex offenders can return to their church congregations after the Indiana Court of Appeals determined that churches are not considered “school property,” so state statute cannot prohibit the offenders from going to church, even when children are present.
The following 7th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion was posted after IL deadline Monday:
Arthur J. Bryant v. Richard Brown
15-3144
Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Terre Haute Division. Judge William T. Lawrence.
Habeas. Denies Arthur J. Bryant’s petition for habeas relief from his convictions of murder, theft and obstruction of justice. The state trial court reasonably applied Strickland and Brady in denying his petition for post-conviction relief claiming ineffective assistance of trial counsel. Because the same issues are reiterated in his habeas petition, the district court’s denial of habeas relief is affirmed.
A split panel of the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court ruling that data the state collects on workers’ compensation insurance is confidential, but a dissenting judge called the majority’s decision “an open invitation to erode the transparency of governmental affairs.”
A trial court order in an intergenerational trust dispute was reversed Tuesday by the Indiana Court of Appeals, which held the court clearly erred in a ruling that would have obligated an estate to pay twice the amount it received from a prior trust.
A 17-year-old whose jailhouse confession to his mother that he killed his stepmother was secretly recorded by detectives, who testified about the incriminating statement at his trial, lost his federal habeas appeal Monday after the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his sentence.
An Anderson man wants Madison County officials to pay the legal bills opponents of a proposed landfill incurred in their decades-long battle against the project.
A 25-year-old man has been sentenced to 55 years in prison after reaching a plea deal in the stabbing deaths of three people in northwestern Indiana.
Former Indianapolis Colts defensive star and current assistant coach Robert Mathis has been jailed on a preliminary charge of driving while intoxicated.
With the start of the spring 2018 semester, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law will be launching a series of classes especially targeting undergraduate students who typically do not enroll in law school.
Three Indiana pharmacists have been reprimanded for trying to access Prince’s medical records within days of the superstar’s death last year.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Cameron Tibbs v. State of Indiana
49A02-1701-CR-154
Criminal. Affirms Cameron Tibbs’ convictions of Level 6 felony obstruction of justice and Class A misdemeanor carrying a handgun without a license. Finds the Marion Superior Court did not abuse its discretion and was not required to enter findings in support of its decision to deny Tibbs’ motion to transfer his case to juvenile court.