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Republican lawmakers have removed a controversial portion of their state budget legislation that would have replaced Indiana Department of Child Services attorneys with contractors in two regions.
An Indiana man did not have standing to sue a collection agency and the company’s letters did not cause him any concrete injury, a split 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.
The state’s top elected officials would see a big pay raise under new salary language included in the latest budget proposal.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Brian Hope, et al. v. Commissioner of Indiana Department of Correction, et al.
22-2150
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division. Senior Judge Richard L. Young.
Civil. Reverses the district court’s grant of summary judgment for plaintiffs. Finds requiring offenders who are already subject to the burdens of registration elsewhere rationally promotes public safety through the maintenance of a sex-offender registry that is as complete as the Indiana Constitution permits.
A woman and her boyfriend have been charged in the death of the woman’s 2-year-old daughter, whose body was found in a rural area of central Indiana, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The U.S. Supreme Court is speaking with one voice in response to recent criticism of the justices’ ethical practices: No need to fix what isn’t broken.
Republicans in both chambers appear to have reached a compromise on the state’s two-year budget, earmarking more than $1 billion for school vouchers while maintaining a commitment to pay down the state’s outstanding debt obligations.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday night moved former Vice President Mike Pence closer to appearing before a grand jury investigating efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Indiana state lawmakers have sent the state’s Republican governor a bill that would create a state-funded handgun training program available for teachers, something critics have said could wrongly increase the number of guns in schools.
Five staff members at a suburban Indianapolis school have been charged with neglect or failure to report neglect after a 7-year-old special education student was told to eat his own vomit.
The Marion Circuit Court has granted Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s notice of withdrawal of motion in a lawsuit involving an Indianapolis doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old Ohio girl.
William Scott Miles v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
22A-CR-2318
Criminal. Affirms William Miles’ convictions and sentence for Class A felony child molesting and Class B felony sexual misconduct with a minor. Finds even if the Hendricks Superior Court erred in admitting evidence, the error would have been harmless. Also finds the 40-year sentence is not inappropriate.
Former members of the University of San Francisco baseball team can proceed using pseudonyms in their federal lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association regarding alleged abuse by coaches, a judge in the Southern District of Indiana ruled.
The Indiana Supreme Court is prepared to hear three oral arguments next week, all cases the Court of Appeals of Indiana had reversed.
Chief Justice John Roberts has declined a request from the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify at a hearing next week on ethical standards at the court, instead providing the panel with a statement of ethics reaffirmed by the court’s nine justices.
A state senator embroiled in a medical malpractice case wants an Allen County judge to block public access to court records and pause proceedings while he finishes the legislative session.
Hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans could face higher barriers to food assistance under the U.S. House Republican plan to cut spending while temporarily lifting the debt limit, advocates say.
Indiana Republican state senators signaled their final approval Tuesday of a bill that would remove the requirement for administrators to discuss some topics with a teachers union representative
There is a large misconception that pursing public service is a “backup plan” for students who do not end up at law firms. That could not be further from the truth.
Thanks to a $35,000 grant from the Indianapolis Bar Foundation, YouYesYou! (YYY) will expand its programming to help incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men become better fathers.