To refine your search through our archives use our Advanced Search
A northern Indiana mother has won a reversal on an adoption petition granted to her child’s stepmother after the Court of Appeals of Indiana concluded she did not abandon her child and her consent was required for the adoption.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Tina M. Isley v. State of Indiana
21A-CR-2837
Criminal. Affirms the denial of Tina Isley’s motion to suppress blood draw results and medical records. Finds Isley’s rights under the Fourth Amendment, Article 1, Section 11 of the Indiana Constitution and Indiana’s implied consent laws were not violated. Judge Melissa May concurs in result with separate opinion.
A fired Indiana leasing consultant will continue to get unemployment benefits after the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed she wasn’t let go for gross negligence.
Tyre Nichols’ fatal encounter with police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded in video made public Friday night, is a glaring reminder that efforts to reform policing have failed to prevent more flashpoints in an intractable epidemic of brutality.
Indiana’s air pollution permitting program is low on money, edging toward violation of the federal Clean Air Act — and a potential U.S. Environmental Protection Agency takeover. And it’s because air pollution is decreasing.
Two Hoosier lawmakers are seeking to eliminate the lower speed limit for heavy trucks on rural interstates and highways, but their proposals appear to be another chapter in more than 30 years of fruitless efforts on behalf of independent truckers.
Pier 48 Fish House & Oyster Bar hadn’t even been open a year when business disputes among the downtown restaurant’s owners began spilling into the legal system in August 2020, with the various partners slinging lawsuits and accusations back and forth.
A former Roncalli High School guidance counselor is asking the 7th Circuit Court of Apppeals to revive her lawsuit against the high school and the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, arguing that the district court misapplied the ministerial exception.
A bill that would further limit the right to bail passed the Indiana Senate on Thursday.
A former employee of the Chocolate Moose in Nashville argued the trial court abused its discretion when it denied his motion to withdraw his guilty pleas and ordered him to pay more than $6,000 in restitution. The Court of Appeals of Indiana disagreed.
A split Court of Appeals of Indiana has partially reversed for an accused rapist after finding the state failed to justify the disclosure of six pages of a DNA summary after the defendant introduced just one page into evidence at a deposition.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Akinfemiwa Akinribade v. State of Indiana
22A-CR-1757
Criminal. Affirms and reverses in part the order to disclose Afkinfemiwa Akinribade’s expert’s summary of the state’s crime lab report. Finds Akinribade waived any objection to the disclosure of the one page of the summary that he introduced into evidence at a deposition of the state’s DNA analyst. Also finds the state failed to make the requisite showing of either substantial need or exceptional circumstances to justify the disclosure of the remaining pages of the summary under Indiana Trial Rule 26(B). Remands for further proceedings. Judge Melissa May dissent with separate opinion.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled an indictment against a northwest Indiana sheriff for felony resisting law enforcement and misdemeanor reckless driving can proceed.
A judge found a 16-year-old boy guilty of murder Thursday in the asphyxiation slaying of a 6-year-old northern Indiana girl.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh says the public shouldn’t read anything into the high court’s historically slow start to releasing opinions.
The Colorado baker who won a partial U.S. Supreme Court victory after refusing to make a gay couple’s wedding cake because of his Christian faith lost an appeal Thursday in his latest legal fight, involving his rejection of a request for a birthday cake celebrating a gender transition.
Individual ticket includes networking, a served breakfast and scheduled program.
A federal lawsuit has been filed against the Gary Common Council after it allegedly failed to establish new election district lines by the Dec. 31 deadline.
Continuing a conversation that began in 2020, an Indiana Senate committee has endorsed a bill that would further clarify the restriction on depositions of alleged child sex abuse victims.
A property dispute between neighbors will continue in the Brown Circuit Court after the Court of Appeals of Indiana overturned the dismissal of the plaintiffs’ amended complaint.
