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Hancock Superior Judge Donald Jack “D.J.” Davis has been admonished for “injudicious” comments made during an incident at his son’s home in June 2022, when he said his use of legally prescribed narcotics “affected (his) judgment.”
Indianapolis law firm Eskew Law’s Sober Rides safety campaign will be running on Independence Day to keep local residents from driving after they’ve been drinking.
The International Seabed Authority — the United Nations body that regulates the world’s ocean floor — is preparing to resume negotiations that could open the international seabed for mining, including for materials critical for the green energy transition.
A civil rights group is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost to the mostly white children of alumni.
Overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating affirmative action in higher education had been leading goals of the conservative legal movement. In a span of 370 days, a Supreme Court reshaped by three justices nominated by President Donald Trump made both a reality.
A man suspected of domestic violence fatally shot a police officer at a southern Indiana hospital early Monday before he was killed by other officers, authorities said.
A defendant’s testimony about a prior unrelated felony was irrelevant to his habitual offender trial, a sharply divided Indiana Supreme Court has ruled, upholding the exclusion of that testimony.
Rene Martinez v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security
22-1820
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Fort Wayne Division. Judge Robert Miller.
Civil. Vacates the district court’s denial of Rene Martinez’s application for supplemental security income. Finds the administrative law judge’s decision is not supported by substantial evidence. Remands for further consideration.
An administrative law judge’s decision to deny a man’s disability application may have relied on medical records belonging to someone else, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday in vacating a district court’s judgment and remanding the case.
A special needs toddler had been endangered by his parents’ methamphetamine use and a trial court correctly adjudicated the boy as a child in need of services, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Friday in affirming the court’s judgment.
Guilty pleas have the same preclusive effect as trial verdicts, a split Indiana Supreme Court ruled in affirming a trial court’s decision to enter summary judgment for mental health providers sued by a man who pleaded guilty but mentally ill to voluntary manslaughter.
The city of Hammond lacked standing to bring a case against Franciscan Alliance for planning to close a hospital, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled in reversing a trial court’s preliminary injunction.
A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Biden administration overstepped its authority in trying to cancel or reduce student loans for millions of Americans.
In a defeat for gay rights, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled Friday that a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples.
The Indiana Supreme Court has vacated the preliminary injunction against the state’s controversial near-total abortion ban, reinstating the law. Lawmakers on both sides of the issue are reacting strongly.
Members of California’s Black reparations task force handed off their historic two-year report to state lawmakers Thursday, beginning the next chapter in the long struggle to compensate the descendants of slavery.
Tulsa lacks the jurisdiction to prosecute a Native American man cited by police for speeding because the city is located within the boundaries of an Indian reservation, a federal appeals court ruled.
The Supreme Court has sent shockwaves through higher education with a landmark decision that struck down affirmative action and left colleges across the nation searching for new ways to promote student diversity.
Jane Henegar, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, plans to retire from her position by Jan. 1 after more than a decade leading the organization.
Hamilton Circuit Judge Paul Felix has been named the newest judge of the Court of Appeals of Indiana. Gov. Eric Holcomb made the announcement Thursday in his Statehouse office.
