Same-sex marriage faces Senate test with GOP votes uncertain
Staring down the prospect of divided government in the next Congress, Senate Democrats are moving forward with legislation this week to protect same sex and interracial marriages.

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Staring down the prospect of divided government in the next Congress, Senate Democrats are moving forward with legislation this week to protect same sex and interracial marriages.
Before the midterm election, President Joe Biden trumpeted his plan to cancel billions in student loans. But now the entire initiative is in jeopardy because of legal challenges that could ensure no one receives a dollar of debt relief.
Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will mount a third White House campaign, launching an early start to the 2024 contest.
Carmel’s former equity manager has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit nearly eight months after he was fired from the position.
A former medical school student who sued the Indiana University School of Medicine and its top officials in a Title IX lawsuit has been ordered to pay the institution more than $20,000 despite a pending appeal before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Hamilton County has filed a lawsuit against the Indiana Department of Veterans Affairs, alleging hundreds of veterans were denied medical benefits for five years due to mismanagement.
Indiana Supreme Court justices must decide whether a woman who won $3.24 million in a personal injury case can sue additional defendants for their alleged roles in the same auto accident.
The number of women holding an elected legislative office at the Indiana Statehouse hit a record high of 40 following the outcomes of last week’s elections.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Chelsea Newman v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
22A-CR-594
Criminal. Affirms Chelsea Newman’s conviction of Level 6 felony unlawful possession of a legend drug. Finds the Blackford Superior Court did not abuse its discretion by admitting Newman’s statements to her community corrections supervisor, made during a meeting and subsequent compliance check, into evidence in her instant trial.
Frost Brown Todd, which has more than 500 attorneys in 14 markets including Indiana, is expanding to the West Coast through a merger with California-based AlvaradoSmith, one of the nation’s largest minority-owned and operated law firms. The combination will become effective Jan. 1, 2023.
The planned $120 million revamp of the former Jail II building and Arrestee Processing Center in downtown Indianapolis by 1820 Ventures could be aided by $15.5 million in tax increment financing bonds, pending full City-County Council approval.
A New York truck driver faces more than two dozen felony charges following a weekend collision in northern Indiana between his semitrailer and a Chicago youth hockey team’s bus that injured 16 of the student athletes, authorities said.
Prosecutors said they’ll seek a life sentence with no chance for parole for a 16-year-old boy who killed four fellow students at a Michigan school and pleaded guilty to murder and terrorism.
Two attorneys have been appointed to represent the man accused of killing two teenage girls in northern Indiana.
A Purdue University student charged with murder in the stabbing death of his dormitory roommate has filed notice in court that he plans to use an insanity defense.
Two inmates were captured after they walked away from a minimum-security housing unit on the campus of an eastern Indiana prison Monday, the Indiana Department of Correction said.
President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of borrowers was handed another legal loss Monday when a federal appeals court panel agreed to a preliminary injunction halting the program while an appeal plays out.
Walmart proposed a $3.1 billion legal settlement Tuesday over the toll of powerful prescription opioids sold at its pharmacies.
Although the oral arguments have passed, grassroots organizers in Indianapolis are sustaining the pressure on the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County to withdraw its case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.