Worker shortage leads firms to hire more ex-offenders
Amid a nationwide worker shortage, central Indiana employers are increasingly taking a chance on new hires who have been arrested or convicted of a crime.

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Amid a nationwide worker shortage, central Indiana employers are increasingly taking a chance on new hires who have been arrested or convicted of a crime.
Law firms in Indiana and across the globe are seeing increasing demand for legal advice on initiatives that measure corporate responsibility in the areas of environmental impact, social concerns and corporate governance.
The state has filed an appellant brief with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and is requesting that the court vacate a district court injunction that preliminarily enjoined a law that would have banned gender transition procedures for Indiana minors.
A former Johnson County judge pleaded guilty earlier this month to a misdemeanor charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated and endangering a person in a case stemming from a Feb. 9 incident.
Friday opinions
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Jane C. Irby v. Michael A. Spear (mem. dec.)
22A-PL-2968
Civil plenary. Affirms the Clark Superior Court’s judgment that Jane Irby did not own certain property by adverse possession. Finds Irby did not meet her burden of proving the elements of adverse possession by clear and convincing evidence. Also finds the trial court was able to consider the recorded instruments, photographs and tax statements, as well as the parties’ thorough testimony, and the trial judge visited the site.
Judge Paul Felix, the newest judge on the Court of Appeals of Indiana, will have his robing ceremony at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Indiana Supreme Court courtroom at the Statehouse.
Former University of Southern California star running back Reggie Bush is suing the NCAA for defamation related to a 2021 statement from college sports’ governing body about a “pay-for-play arrangement” Bush says was directed at him.
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission’s chief of staff will soon leave the agency to lobby for an electric utility group.
The Ohio Ballot Board approved language Thursday for a fall measure seeking to establish abortion access as a fundamental right, but one Democratic member blasted it as “rife with misleading and defective language.”
A scowling Donald Trump posed for a mug shot Thursday as he surrendered inside a jail on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, creating a historic and humbling visual underscoring the former president’s legal troubles.
Republican support for gun restrictions is slipping a year after Congress passed the most comprehensive firearms control legislation in decades with bipartisan support, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Indiana will be receiving almost $1 million in new federal funding as part of a U.S. Department of Justice grant program designed to help support victims of sexual assault.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a district court’s preliminary order for forfeiture against a man convicted of child pornography-related crimes in a per curiam order issued Wednesday and reinstated a final judgment issued in 2020.
Thursday opinions
Court of Appeals of Indiana
K.H. v. Review Board of the Indiana Department of Workforce Development (mem. dec.)
23A-EX-413
Appeal in certain administrative proceedings. Affirms the denial of K.H.’s unemployment benefits Finds K.H. does not qualify for unemployment benefits.
Indianapolis law firm Gilbert Legal Services LLC is suing one of its former attorneys for allegedly setting up work with a new client at a different firm while still employed at GLS, along with continuing to accept student loan reimbursements despite having already paid off the loans.
The 150th Indiana Legal Help kiosk went online Wednesday in Lake County, the Indiana Bar Foundation announced.
A Moscow court ruled Thursday that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich must stay in jail on espionage charges until the end of November, Russian state news agency Tass reported.
Donald Trump is set to surrender Thursday to authorities in Georgia on charges that he schemed to overturn the 2020 election in that state, a booking process expected to yield a historic first: a mug shot of a former American president.
A 2-year-old Indiana boy has died after he was struck by an SUV at a state park in western Michigan, police said.
A southern Indiana egg farmer has declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat in 2024.