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A former Indiana University provost and law school dean is calling for a disciplinary investigation into Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, alleging he made “false or baseless” statements on Fox News concerning an Indiana doctor who performed an abortion for a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim.
A judge in Tennessee has temporarily barred two federal agencies from enforcing directives issued by President Joe Biden’s administration that extended protections for LGBTQ people in schools and workplaces.
Retired Justice Stephen Breyer is getting a different title: professor. Harvard said Friday that Breyer, who retired from the Supreme Court on June 30, is re-joining its law school faculty.
Greenwood officials disclosed Monday afternoon that the shooter who killed three people at Greenwood Park Mall on Sunday evening — and then was shot and killed by a “good Samaritan” bystander — was a 20-year-old city resident who had run-ins with police as a juvenile.
A lawyer on Friday emailed the Indiana state’s attorney general asking him to stop spreading false or misleading information about an Indianapolis doctor who performed an abortion in June on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio.
Prosecutors have dropped murder charges against a man accused of killing four people inside an Indianapolis home in 2015, citing the deaths of two witnesses and the discovery that DNA evidence had been compromised.
A 20-year-old man who admitted he fatally shot two former co-workers at a northern Indiana pizza shop has been sentenced to 65 years in prison.
Indiana closed the fiscal year with $6.1 billion in state reserves, another sign the state’s economy bounced back from the COVID-19 pandemic faster than economists had expected.
With a little more than a week left before the Republican-dominated Indiana Legislature convenes for a special session, not much is known about what its abortion-related legislation will look like, or exactly how soon bills will be filed.
A mentally ill man who was committed after acting pro se has secured a reversal by the Court of Appeals of Indiana, as the appellate court determined he was not competent enough to waive his right to counsel.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of: L.B. v. Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center
22A-MH-153
Mental health. Reverses the Marion Superior Court’s commitment of L.B. to the Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Finds the trial court erred in allowing L.B. to proceed pro se. Finds L.B. was not capable of knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently waiving his right to counsel before accepting his waiver of that right. Remands for a new commitment hearing.
A part-time employee argued she was terminated in retaliation for requesting a reasonable accommodation for her disability, but the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals found the evidence she provided to support her claim would not convince a reasonable juror.
The Indiana Supreme Court is seeking public comment on proposed rule changes to the Indiana Rules of Court.
A proposed rule amendment to Judicial Conduct Rule 2.17 would give Indiana trial court judges discretion to allow news media to broadcast, televise, record and photograph court proceedings.
A Florida truck driver has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for fatally stabbing his driving partner while the man was behind the wheel of their truck along an eastern Indiana highway.
The House on Friday is expected to vote on two bills that would restore and guarantee abortion access nationwide as Democrats make their first attempt at responding legislatively to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
The lawyer for an Indiana doctor at the center of a political firestorm after speaking out about a 10-year-old child abuse victim who traveled from Ohio for an abortion said Thursday that her client provided proper treatment and did not violate any patient privacy laws in discussing the unidentified girl’s case.
A retired Indiana teacher who admitted to grabbing a 15-year-old student and slapping him across the face in a school hallway was sentenced Thursday to one year of probation.
Having built a legal career that includes two federal court clerkships, 12 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana and four years as a federal magistrate judge, 7th Circuit Court of Appeals nominee and Southern Indiana District Court Magistrate Judge Doris Pryor sat for her confirmation hearing Wednesday and faced the stiffest questions about a 2019 speech she gave for Constitution Day at her son’s elementary school.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Franciscan Alliance Inc., d/b/a Franciscan Physician Network v. Louis S. Metzman, M.D.
21A-PL-2171
Civil plenary. Affirms the Montgomery Circuit Court’s ruling that Franciscan Alliance breached its contract with Dr. Louis S. Metzman when it deducted money from his base compensation for taking unpaid time off and that Metzman is not entitled to performance-based compensation or liquidated damages, as well as the trial court’s rejection of Franciscan’s claim-by-claim approach to the distribution of attorney fees. Finds the term “prevailing party” here refers to a single party — the one in whose favor judgment is rendered, even if not to the extent of the original claim. Concludes while it may not always be appropriate to award full fees to the prevailing party, doing so in this case was not an error.