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Chicago-based law firm SmithAmundsen LLC, which has a large presence in Indianapolis, is merging with Wisconsin-based Davis|Kuelthau. The combined firm will operate as Amundsen Davis LLC with 230 attorneys and 12 offices throughout the Midwest.
The first and only debate among the three Indiana candidates for U.S. Senate gave Democratic hopeful Tom McDermott a rare opportunity to verbally spar with Republican Sen. Todd Young, who is seeking another six-year term as the state’s senior senator.
It’s less than four weeks from Election Day, and Diego Morales, the Republican candidate for Indiana secretary of state, has found himself mired in a series of controversies.
Indiana University’s vice president for research said he plans to step down from the role next June and return to the classroom. Fred Cate has led IU’s research initiatives for nearly eight years.
A man found guilty of murder, robbery and other charges in the 2015 killing of an Indianapolis pastor’s wife during a break-in was sentenced Friday to 86 years in prison.
A fifth-grade teacher at a school in northwestern Indiana was charged with felony intimidation Friday after allegedly telling a student she had a “kill list” of students and staff, authorities said.
The parents of a northern Indiana teenager who died along with her boyfriend when a vehicle being chased by police crashed into their car in 2020 is suing the city of Mishawaka.
The Fort Wayne City Council has asked the city’s attorney to answer several questions stemming from Mayor Tom Henry’s recent drunken driving crash and the suspension of his driver’s license for 90 days.
Arguments were held in court Friday morning between several women and the state of Indiana as to whether the latter’s new abortion law clashes with the Hoosiers’ sincerely held religious beliefs under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
A magistrate judge who granted a litigant’s motion to transfer a PCR case to an elected judge but then failed to do so was protected from the litigant’s subsequent lawsuit against her by absolute judicial immunity, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
James Stephens v. The Honorable Peggy Ryan Hart, Magistrate
22A-MI-1301
Miscellaneous. Affirms the dismissal of James Stephens’ claims against Marion Superior Magistrate Judge Peggy Hart regarding his denial of petition for post-conviction relief. Finds the claims were subject to dismissal based on absolute judicial immunity. Also finds Stephens’ waived argument that the trial court magistrate judge lacked authority to dismiss his complaint is not well-taken. Finally, finds Stephens has waived any constitutional challenge to the statute granting magistrate judges the authority to enter final appealable orders.
Health care advocates and members of the Indianapolis City-County Council urged a city entity Thursday to drop a Medicaid lawsuit set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court next month.
Magistrate Judge Doris Pryor of the Indiana Southern District Court has been waiting since August for the U.S. Senate to vote on her nomination to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, and she will likely have to wait some more.
A northern Indiana man convicted of molesting his teenage nephew has lost his appeal of the denial of habeas relief based on the argument that he should have been allowed to present evidence of his nephew’s drug use.
The House Jan. 6 committee has voted unanimously to subpoena former President Donald Trump, demanding his personal testimony as it unveiled new video and described his multipart plan to overturn his 2020 election loss.
A federal judge ruled Friday that the current version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children can continue, at least temporarily.
A Purdue University student was charged with murder Thursday in the stabbing death of his roommate, whose body was found by officers sitting in a chair in their campus dorm room.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump’s plea to step into the legal fight over the FBI search of his Florida estate.
The next dean of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law will come from in house. IU Maurer announced longtime faculty member Christiana Ochoa as the 17th dean in the law school’s history on Thursday.
Indiana’s near-total abortion ban is returning to court as opponents and proponents this time argue over whether the new law interferes with sincerely held religious beliefs.
