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Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita this week congratulated his litigation team for winning all of its eight civil jury trials this year. Rokita is the state’s chief legal officer and his office is its law firm.
A federal appeals court in Washington on Friday upheld a gag order on former President Donald Trump in his 2020 election interference case but narrowed the restrictions on his speech.
The 2023 Indiana Bar Foundation’s We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution State Finals returns to Indianapolis next week, as students from across the state gather to display their constitutional knowledge.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Mark A. Goodlett v. Town of Clarksville and Town of Clarksville Fire Department (mem. dec.)
23A-CT-460
Civil tort. Affirms the Town of Clarksville Board of Police and Fire Commissioners’ decision to terminate Mark A. Goodlett. Finds the board properly exercised its authority under Indiana Code § 36-8-3-4 and the departments general orders, so its decision to terminate Goodlett for neglect of duty, immoral conduct, conduct unbecoming an officer, violations of department rules and breaches of discipline was not arbitrary and capricious and did not otherwise violate Goodlett’s due process rights.
A Vincennes attorney’s law license has been suspended for 60 days, with his suspension stemming from a 2022 felony conviction for impersonating a public servant.
A pregnant woman in Kentucky filed a lawsuit Friday demanding the right to an abortion, the second legal challenge in days to sweeping abortion bans that have taken hold in more than a dozen U.S. states since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year.
A 67-year-old college professor who was denied jobs at various Nevada colleges and universities stuffed loaded handgun magazines into his waistband before walking into a University of Nevada, Las Vegas building and killing three faculty members, police said.
Three new judges pro tempore have been appointed to fill vacancies across the state.
U.S. Senate candidate John Rust has secured a preliminary injunction against a state law that would prohibit him from appearing on the GOP primary ballot in May.
Former President Donald Trump is appealing a ruling that found he is not immune from criminal prosecution as he runs out of opportunities to delay or even derail an upcoming trial on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The assaults of two notorious, high-profile federal prisoners by fellow inmates in recent months have renewed concerns about whether the chronically understaffed, crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons is capable of keeping people in its custody safe.
A Bartholomew County property owner timely filed an appeal of their 2018 land assessment, but the Indiana Board of Tax Review’s order to not change the property’s assessed value should stand, the Indiana Tax Court affirmed Wednesday.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Heather Tutwiler v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security
22-2808
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Fort Wayne Division. Senior Judge William C. Lee.
Civil. Affirms the district court’s order affirming the denial of benefits for Heather Tutwiler. Finds the administrative law judge’s decision was supported by substantial evidence and was not otherwise contrary to law.
A Fort Wayne woman has been appointed to the Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission for a three-year term, Gov. Eric Holcomb has announced.
While an administrative law judge might have erred in his analysis of some factors in rejecting a woman’s disability benefits application, “enough” of his analysis supported his ruling, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in affirming the benefits denial.
Returning to the Court of Appeals of Indiana for the third time, a couple operating a shooting range on their property without the proper permitting failed to find relief from an order in favor of the local planning commission.
A Texas judge on Thursday gave a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis permission to get an abortion in an unprecedented challenge over bans that more than a dozen states have enacted since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
A Texas jury this week awarded Purdue University $32.5 million in damages in its patent infringement lawsuit against an international microelectronics company.
Gov. Eric Holcomb defended the timeline process for a water pipeline from Tippecanoe County to Boone County for a massive, high-tech development grounded by a multibillion-dollar investment from Eli Lilly.
Former NFL Player Sergio Brown pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of first-degree murder and concealing a homicide in the September death of his mother.
