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Kellie M. Barr was sworn in as a federal magistrate judge on Monday during a private ceremony and assumed her duties on Tuesday, according to Indiana Southern District Court Chief Judge Tanya Walton Pratt.
Lake County attorneys are recommending the 10 judges on the Nov. 8 ballot all be retained for another term, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Lake County Bar Association.
Carroll Circuit Judge Benjamin A. Diener has recused himself from the high-profile murder case involving two teenage girls who were slain in 2017 in Delphi. Allen Superior Judge Fran Gull will now serve as special judge over the case against Richard Allen.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Roto-Rooter Services Company v. Nationwide Insurance Company of America a/s/o Eduardo and Dawn Manning Juarbe (mem. dec.)
22A-CT-760
Civil tort. Affirms the denial of Roto-Rooter Services Company’s motion for relief from default judgment in a dispute with Nationwide Insurance Company of America a/s/o Eduardo and Dawn Manning Juarbe. Finds Roto-Rooter failed to establish exceptional circumstances necessary to satisfy Indiana Trial Rule 60(B)(8).
The Indiana Supreme Court will hear oral arguments later this month concerning a sewage leak and a quadriplegic woman’s personal injury suit.
The Supreme Court looks more like America than it ever has. The lawyers who argue at the nation’s highest court? Not so much.
Federal prosecutors rested their case Thursday against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four associates charged in the U.S. Capitol attack after presenting nearly five weeks of testimony, videos and text messages.
With Election Day just four days away, both Democrats and Republicans competing in local and statewide races are ramping up attack ads in the hopes of scaring Hoosiers away from voting for their opponents.
Republican Indiana secretary of state candidate Diego Morales faced sharp criticism Thursday as records show he voted in one county while claiming a property tax credit for living in another as he unsuccessfully ran for Congress four years ago.
Caitlin Bernard, the OB-GYN targeted by Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita after she performed an abortion on a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim, has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the “baseless investigation” into physicians who provide abortion care.
An Indianapolis solo practitioner who was found to have made “no meaningful effort” to represent his client and has refused to refund the client for the “fees he collected but did not earn” has been suspended for one year.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana entered judgment for two doctors and a hospital Thursday, concluding that a patient’s expert affidavit was insufficient to create a genuine issue of material fact about the standard of care she should have received.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has made judicial appointments to courts in Warrick and Clark counties.
Filings for bankruptcy protection are continuing to drop nationwide, with personal and business bankruptcy filings falling 11.7% for the 12-month period ending Sept. 30.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Penny Korakis v. Memorial Hospital of South Bend, Michael R. Messmer, D.O., David A. Halperin, M.D.
22A-CT-867
Civil tort. Affirms the grant of summary judgment to Dr. David A. Halperin, Dr. Michael R. Messmer and Memorial Hospital of South Bend on Penny Korakis’ medical malpractice lawsuit. Finds Dr. James Kemmler’s affidavit was insufficient to create genuine issues of fact such that summary judgment in favor of the defendants was inappropriate.
Warning that democracy itself is in peril, President Joe Biden called on Americans Wednesday night to use their ballots in next week’s midterm elections to stand up against lies, violence and dangerous “ultra MAGA” election disruptors.
Lawyers who aided former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election regarded an appeal to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as “key” to their chances of success, according to emails made public Wednesday.
The attorneys general of California, Illinois and the District of Columbia are suing Albertsons in an effort to stop the grocery chain from paying a nearly $4 billion dividend to its shareholders.
A jury recommended a sentence of life in prison after convicting a Fort Wayne man Wednesday in the death and dismemberment of another man with whom he had sex.
Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz formally received a sentence of life without parole Wednesday after families of his 17 slain victims spent two days berating him as evil, a coward, a monster and a subhuman.
