Indiana’s first Black AUSA Charles Goodloe Jr. dies at 83
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana announced Monday the passing of former U.S. Attorney Charles Goodloe Jr.

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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana announced Monday the passing of former U.S. Attorney Charles Goodloe Jr.
The Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualification issued an advisory opinion Monday on campaign endorsements and other campaign conduct.
The Supreme Court opened the door Monday to new, broad challenges to regulations long after they take effect, the third blow in a week to federal agencies. The justices ruled 6-3 in favor of a truck stop in North Dakota that wants to sue over a regulation on debit card swipe fees that the federal appeals court in Washington upheld 10 years ago.
Indiana Republican U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz has been charged with bringing a firearm through airport security, authorities said Monday.
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked the New York judge who presided over his hush money trial to set aside his conviction and delay his sentencing, scheduled for next week.
The Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA) will stop enforcing collections of premium-like payments — the agency announced Monday, the same day it was set to restart the program. The action comes after a Thursday ruling from a federal judge striking contributions to POWER Accounts for Indiana’s Medicaid expansion enrollees.
The Biden administration proposed a new rule Tuesday to address excessive heat in the workplace, as tens of millions of people in the U.S. are under heat advisories due to blistering temperatures.
The recently retired bankruptcy judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana was encouraged to pursue two traditional career paths for women when she entered college in the 1970s.
There are times in the practice of law when a lawyer wishes he or she had a time machine. Those times can occur when the lawyer realizes that he or she should have never taken the case he or she is working on.
The Indiana Supreme Court amended its admission and discipline rules Friday, opening a path for military spouses and attorneys licensed in other states as the court continues to look at ways to address the state’s attorney shortage.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed in part a ruling by Indiana Southern District Court to dismiss a negligence claim involving the wire transfer of money to a bank, which deposited the transfers into its own account.
A Vanderburgh County man faces decades in prison after a jury convicted him last week of murdering two men in 2023.
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled for the first time that former presidents have some immunity from prosecution, extending the delay in the Washington criminal case against Donald Trump on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss and all but ending prospects the former president could be tried before the November election.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
United States of America v. Zebulon Xavier Marzette
23-1646
Criminal. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, South Bend Division. Judge Damon Leichty. Affirms Zebulon Marzette’s conviction for possessing a firearm as a felon. Finds that Marzette failed to persuade the court that any error allowing the 911 caller’s statements to come in through police testimony prejudiced him at trial. Also finds that allowing Marzette’s conviction to stand would not so detrimentally affect his rights as to call the entire fairness and integrity of the trial into question.
A U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana magistrate judge in the court’s Fort Wayne division has announced her intent to retire in July 2025.
Multiple Republican campaigns and committees that received political donations from disgraced former Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel said they have no plans to return or donate those dollars elsewhere — while numerous others are keeping mum, distancing themselves from Noel altogether.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Young issued a preliminary injunction Friday blocking a law set to go into effect Monday requiring age verification for porn websites.
Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon is scheduled to report to a federal prison in Connecticut on Monday to serve a four-month sentence on contempt charges for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack.
Indiana Supreme Court
Jeffrey L. Foster, Kathie J. Foster, and the Earl Goodwine Trust v. First Merchants Bank, N.A.
24S-PL-75
Civil plenary. Reverses the Benton Circuit Court’s order granting First Merchants Bank’s motion to dismiss Jeffrey and Kathie Foster’s case based on Indiana Trial Rule 41(E). Finds that although the plaintiffs did little to advance their case for several years, they resumed prosecution by requesting a case-management conference before the defendant moved for dismissal under Rule 41(E). Also finds the case could not be dismissed under that rule, and the trial court abused its discretion in concluding otherwise. Also rejects the defendant’s alternative argument, as the court holds that the equitable doctrine of laches does not apply here. Justice Geoffrey Slaughter dissents with separate opinion.
The Indiana Supreme Court reversed an order from the Benton Circuit Court dismissing a plaintiff’s case regarding a settlement dispute because the party failed to move the case along, Chief Justice Loretta Rush wrote in a June 27 opinion.