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Three health care entities urged a Marion County judge to quash civil investigative demands from Attorney General Todd Rokita on Tuesday, part of an ongoing battle over gender transition care.
A suspect has been arrested in connection with the Halloween 1982 cold case slaying of a southern Indiana man, state police announced Tuesday on the 41st anniversary of the crime.
Before House Speaker Mike Johnson was elected to public office, he was the dean of a small Baptist law school that didn’t actually exist.
A northern Indiana transportation company has obtained a temporary restraining order against its former general counsel, a state lawmaker and other defendants in a dispute over the sale of more than $28 million of the company’s stock.
The trial for an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls slain in 2017 during a hiking trip was moved Tuesday from January to next October after the presiding judge told the suspect she will not allow his former attorneys to represent him.
A couple alleging fraudulent misrepresentation in their purchase of a home has failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that the jury was improperly instructed or that the verdict in favor of the sellers was not supported by the evidence.
Indiana Supreme Court
State of Indiana v. $2,435 in United States Currency and Alucious Q. Kizer
23S-CR-72
Criminal. Affirms the Allen Circuit Court’s order vacating its previous order granting the state’s motion to strike Alucious Kizer’s demand for a jury trial. Finds a claimant in an action brought under Indiana’s civil forfeiture statute has a constitutional right to trial by jury. Remands for a jury trial.
Addressing a child support dispute for the second time on appeal, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has rejected a father’s argument that his disabled daughter’s disability benefits should be used to offset his child support obligation.
A trial court did not err in issuing a turnover order to obtain assets in a case involving millions of dollars in promissory notes, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled in affirming a lower court’s decision.
Defendants to civil forfeiture actions have a constitutional right to trial by jury in Indiana, the state Supreme Court has ruled.
The state of Indiana isn’t entitled to immunity in a case involving a woman who was paralyzed after stopping at the scene of an accident on a highway, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has affirmed.
An election to fill an upcoming attorney vacancy on the Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission is open now through Nov. 15.
A mother whose request to relocate to California with her minor child was denied has failed in her bid for relief from the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
Attorney Christopher Daley, currently the executive director of the Indiana Association of Resources and Child Advocacy, has been named the new executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana.
The U.S. Supreme Court wrestled Tuesday with whether public officials can block critics from commenting on their social media accounts, an issue that first arose in a case involving former President Donald Trump.
A gag order in Donald Trump’s election interference case in Washington is back in place, restricting the former president’s rhetoric as he prepares for trial and campaigns to return to the White House in 2024.
A trial court’s remark endorsing “80% certainty” as a description of the reasonable doubt standard was improper but did not rise to the level of fundamental error for a woman convicted of murder in a fatal robbery, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Monday.
The Court of Appeals has dismissed as moot the appeal of a woman’s involuntary commitment, determining the collateral consequences doctrine does not apply in her case.
The town of Speedway is immune from a lawsuit filed by a delivery driver who was bitten by a town K-9 officer, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has affirmed.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Jennifer L. Dean v. State of Indiana
22A-CR-2104
Criminal. Affirms Jennifer Dean’s conviction of felony murder and her 60-year sentence. Finds the Carroll Circuit Court’s remark endorsing an 80% certainty as a description of the reasonable doubt standard was improper but does not rise to the level of fundamental error. Also finds sufficient evidence supports Dean’s conviction. Finally, finds her sentence is not inappropriate.