Gull elected to serve as Allen Superior Court chief judge
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A longtime judge will head up the Allen Superior Court for the next two years, as the court has announced its leadership team for the 2024-2025 term.

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A longtime judge will head up the Allen Superior Court for the next two years, as the court has announced its leadership team for the 2024-2025 term.
Tuesday opinions
Indiana Supreme Court
Expert Builders, LLC v. Paul Vangundy
23S‐PL‐171
Civil plenary. Affirms the St. Joseph Superior Court’s default judgment for Paul Vangundy, due to Expert Pool Builders LLC not filing a timely response to Vangundy’s complaint. Finds nothing in the trial court’s decision is unlawful, illogical or unreasonable, and the default judgment did not come at the expense of professionalism, civility or common courtesy.
A Hamilton County woman should have filed her application for a homestead deduction before the end of 2020 to qualify for that assessment year, the Indiana Tax Court ruled Friday in affirming an Indiana Board of Tax Review final determination.
In this time of war overseas, more Americans think foreign policy should be a top focus for the U.S. government in 2024, with a new poll showing international concerns and immigration rising in importance with the public.
States and the federal government are wrestling with how to harden water utilities against cyberattacks. The danger, officials say, is hackers gaining control of automated equipment to shut down pumps that supply drinking water or contaminate drinking water by reprogramming automated chemical treatments.
Indiana lawmakers expect to file and advance significant child care legislation during the upcoming session, after years of advocacy from Hoosier parents, child care providers and worker-strapped businesses.
U.S. presidential elections have been rocked in recent years by economic disaster, stunning gaffes, secret video and a pandemic. But the volatility surrounding this year’s presidential contest has few modern parallels.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Brandon Lee Kendall v. State of Indiana
23A-CR-1473
Criminal. Affirms Brandon Lee Kendall’s convictions for Level 6 felony identity deception. Finds that the crime of false informing is distinguishable from identity deception and thus there is no Article 1, Section 16 violation. Also finds the state presented evidence of a probative nature from which a reasonable trier of fact could find Kendall guilty of identity deception and it cannot state the state’s exhibit 2 was not relevant or that the probative value of the exhibit was substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice.
A Greene County man’s conviction for identity deception will stand, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Friday
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has announced the interim director of the Office of Environmental Adjudication as the longtime director and chief environmental law judge retires.
A longtime Evansville attorney who served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the mid-1970s has died. Philip Hayes died Dec. 20 at the age of 83.
A Greenwood police detective sufficiently established probable cause for a search warrant for a man’s home where the man was suspected of downloading child pornography, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Friday.
A failure to properly serve a mother with notice of a hearing voided an order that terminated the mother’s parental rights to her child, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled in a reversal Friday.
A man’s appointed counsel agreed to the rescheduling of his trial beyond a 70-day deadline and did not raise an objection, so his right to a speedy trial was not violated, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Friday.
The Chair of the Indiana Senate Health and Provider Services Committee doesn’t expect the same big health care legislation that was produced in 2023 in the upcoming legislative session.
The U.S. military’s X-37B space plane blasted off Thursday on another secretive mission that’s expected to last at least a couple of years.
In a draft risk assessment published last month by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of a proposed broader revision of its coal ash management rules, the agency now says using coal ash as fill may create elevated cancer risk from radiation.
Maine’s Democratic secretary of state on Thursday removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally.
To encourage the continued use of senior judges in the state’s courts, the Indiana Supreme Court announced it is increasing the baseline number of senior judge days each court may use in 2024 to 20.
The Conference of Chief Justices and Conference of State Court Administrators have created a rapid response team of chief justices and state court administrators to examine immediate issues related to artificial intelligence and generative AI in courts.