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Interested in participating in leadership as a member of the fundraising-focused 2023 IndyBar Foundation Board of Directors? The following vacancies exist and must be filled by an attorney member: vice president, secretary, treasurer, diversity, equity, and inclusion accountability director and several director positions.
Mediation is often hailed as a helpful tool to keep parties out of court and focused on resolving their issues more efficiently. But individuals don’t necessarily have to be a licensed attorney in order to mediate a legal matter.
IndyBar’s Women and the Law Division (WLD) is pleased to announce Magistrate Judge Doris Pryor as the 2022 Antoinette Dakin Leach (ADL) Award winner.
The seven-member Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission has selected six finalists for the Court of Appeals of Indiana to succeed Justice Derek Molter, who joined the Indiana Supreme Court earlier this month.
An Indiana attorney who claims to qualify for the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan is challenging the debt relief, asserting he will face a state tax liability and be worse off because of the U.S. Department of Education’s “end-run around Congress.”
A federal court has overturned Indiana’s fetal disposition law, finding the statute that requires medical providers to either bury or cremate fetal tissue violates the constitutional protections for free speech and free exercise.
The Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission hunkered down at a large table in the Indiana Supreme Court conference room in Indianapolis on Tuesday morning to begin its interviews for an opening on the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Jason Morehouse and Sarah Morehouse v. Dux North LLC
22A-PL-664
Civil plenary. Reverses summary judgment granted to Dux North on an easement of prior use over real property owned by Jason Morehouse and Sarah Morehouse. Also reverses the denial of the Morehouses’ motion for partial summary judgment on the alleged easement of necessity. Finds Dux North was required to designate evidence to show that an access road is absolutely necessary to access Parcel 3, which it did not do. Finds the designated evidence also does not show whether the access road either was or was not in use at the time that Parcel 3 was severed from the Morehouse property in April 1991. Remands for further proceedings.
An Arcadia couple in an easement dispute with a duck hunting group has secured a pair of reversals from the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
The July 2022 bar exam brought more of the same with an overall pass rate of 68%, a slight dip from last year and comparable to the mid-summer licensing tests given before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Conference of Chief Justices, led by Indiana Chief Justice Loretta Rush, has filed an amicus brief requesting the U.S. Supreme Court reject a theory that it alleges would remove state courts of their powers to review state laws governing federal elections.
Former Brownsburg music teacher John Kluge has joined a chorus of religious freedom advocates in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to use a Title VII employment case to overturn an “egregiously wrong” 45-year precedent that advocates claim prevents employees from obtaining accommodations for their religious practices.
Despite nearly 900 arrests and hundreds of convictions following the Jan. 6 riot, Stewart Rhodes and four Oath Keeper associates are the first to stand trial on the rare and difficult-to-prove charge of seditious conspiracy. Jury selection begins Tuesday.
Civil rights lawyers and Democratic senators are pushing for legislation that would limit U.S. law enforcement agencies’ ability to buy cellphone tracking tools to follow people’s whereabouts, including back years in time, and sometimes without a search warrant.
An eastern Indiana police officer who died last week after being shot in the head during an August traffic stop was remembered by her fiancée Monday during her funeral as an upbeat person who was the love of her life.
Indiana’s revenues continue to outperform projections, bolstering swollen coffers as stakeholders prepare to draft the 2023 budget amid ongoing inflation and economic concerns.
An Indianapolis electricity company had its appeal zapped Monday by the Court of Appeals of Indiana after being denied a request for declaratory judgment in a coverage dispute against its former insurer.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Indianapolis Power & Light Company (d/b/a AES Indiana) v. The Home Insurance Co., et al.
22A-PL-1211
Civil plenary. Affirms the order granting The Home Insurance Co.’s motion to dismiss AES Indiana’s request for a declaratory judgment seeking a declaration of its rights and its insurance carrier’s coverage obligation under an excess liability insurance policy. Finds the trial court properly dismissed AES Indiana’s complaint, according full faith and credit to an out-of-state liquidation order pursuant to Indiana Code §§ 27-9-4-3(c) and 27-9-3-12(b).
Justin Mills, the attorney who won the 2022 Republican primary for Crawford Circuit Court judge, has officially temporarily taken the bench to fill the vacancy created when Sabrina Bell resigned in July following her arrest for domestic battery.
In celebration of National Bill of Rights Day, Indiana middle and high school students have been invited to partake in a multistate art and writing contest hosted by the United States Courts of Appeals.
