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Attorney General Todd Rokita has filed a lawsuit against Indiana University Health, alleging it failed to report, review and enforce privacy standards in connection with Dr. Caitlin Bernard talking publicly about an abortion she performed on a 10-year-old.
The Justice Department is allocating nearly $60 million to legal services and improved court responses to domestic and sexual violence.
State defendants in a lawsuit brought by Indianapolis Public Schools regarding the sale of unused classroom buildings are being represented by outside counsel, rather than the Attorney General’s Office. They also refused consent to a commercial court docket.
The 2023 fellows in Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law’s Program on Law and State Government will present their research on the concept of “liberty” at the annual PLSG Symposium next week.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Kennisha J. Jackson v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
22A-CR-2305
Criminal. Affirms Kennisha Jackson’s conviction in Allen Superior Court of murder. Finds no abuse of the trial court’s discretion in either its handling of the evidence at Jackson’s trial or its denial of her motions for mistrial.
A longtime Indiana state senator announced Friday that he will resign from the chamber in mid-October to “pursue new professional endeavors.”
Some of Indiana’s largest employers are coming together to address what they call the state’s neglect of civic education, its declining college-going rate and a low voter registration and turnout rate compared with other states.
An Indiana man faces felony charges after he was shot in the back by a 2-year-old boy who found the weapon on a bed, according to authorities.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked a lower court order curbing Biden administration efforts to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security.
The Justice Department is challenging efforts by former President Donald Trump to disqualify the Washington judge presiding over the case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The state has filed its opening brief challenging class certification in the case against Indiana’s near-total abortion ban based on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Indiana University’s police chief is out, and the university has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit after a graduate student said two IU Police Department officers violated his rights when he was arrested for an unpaid $3 parking fee.
The negative collateral consequences a patient potentially faces from an involuntary temporary commitment order makes review of an expired order “meaningful” and not moot, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled, though it ultimately affirmed the commitment.
Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday on federal firearms charges, the latest and weightiest step yet in a long-running investigation into the president’s son.
A first-of-its kind summit next week in Allen County will focus on mental health issues that impact people from all walks of life.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of: M.T. v. Community Health Network
23A-MH-341
Mental health. Affirms M.T.’s temporary commitment. Finds the appeal is not moot because M.T. may face negative collateral consequences with respect to future involuntary civil commitment proceedings if the instant commitment order were invalid and left undisturbed. Also finds Community Health Network presented sufficient evidence to support M.T.’s temporary commitment.
The Judicial Conference of the United States has approved changes to its broadcast policy that expands access to civil and bankruptcy proceedings over its longstanding pre-COVID policy.
A man’s appeal of his expired temporary involuntary commitment order was not moot, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Thursday. However, the COA also affirmed a trial’s court judgment that granted a petition for the man’s commitment.
A federal magistrate judge has granted local defendants’ motion to stay discovery in a case involving noncitizen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at the Clay County Jail while a motion to dismiss is pending.
A Boone County judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a group of landowners against the city of Lebanon over the municipality’s decision to annex 5,200 acres of land and create a new zoning district for the LEAP Lebanon Innovation District.
