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The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana is seeking public comment on proposed amendments to its local rules, including possible changes to pro hac vice admissions.
Two women who won attorney fees against their grandmother’s estate were hit with a reversal Tuesday from the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Elizabeth Hollrah and Janice Stacy, Individually and as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Laura E. Barker v. Lisa Barker and Connie Barker
21A-ES-2432
Estate, supervised. Reverses the Decatur Circuit Court’s order that the Estate of Laura E. Barker pay Lisa Barker and Connie Barker’s attorney fees. Finds the attorney fees incurred by Lisa and Connie did not constitute expenses of administration of Laura’s estate.
Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven David will participate in one last court proceeding in his former judicial home of Boone County when the high court travels to Lebanon High School on June 30 to hear oral arguments.
The Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission on July 11 will interview nine judges and lawyers who have applied to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
The Indiana Lawyer is proud to present its 2022 Leadership in Law honorees.These 36 men and women represent the strength and the future of Indiana’s legal profession. Senior Judge Sarah Evans Barker U.S. District Court for the Southern District of IndianaAmerican University Washington College of Law, 1969 Cynthia Adams Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School […]
A jury has convicted a Lake County man in the killings of a woman and two teenage boys found bludgeoned to death in 1998 in a house in northwest Indiana.
An eastern Indiana man convicted of fatally shooting a neighbor while the property line between their homes was being surveyed faces a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the victim’s mother.
The Justice Department said Sunday it will review the law enforcement response to the Texas school shooting, an unusual federal look back prompted by questions about the shifting and at times contradictory information from authorities that have enraged a community in shock and sorrow.
A Florida judge on Saturday gave initial approval to a settlement of more than $1 billion to families who lost loved ones in the collapse last year of a Florida beachfront condominium building in which 98 people died.
A federal judge on Friday dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James, rejecting the former president’s claim that she targeted him out of political animus and allowing her civil investigation into his business practices to continue.
Paul Pelosi, the 82-year-old husband of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, was arrested this weekend on suspicion of DUI in Northern California, police records showed Sunday.
Although the Legislative Council rejected a request to study the topic of providing attorneys to children in the child welfare system, Indiana state Sen. Jon Ford plans to keep pushing the matter by convening an independent study group to examine the issue.
Indiana is one of 20 states that has no Black, Latino, Asian American or Native American justices sitting on its Supreme Court, even though people of color make up 23% of the state’s population, according to a new report issued by the Brennan Center for Justice.
The Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic has hired Erin Hall, an Indianapolis attorney who has spent the bulk of her career in state government, as the nonprofit’s new executive director. She will join the clinic June 1.
Duke Energy will not get a second chance to convince the Indiana Supreme Court that it erred in ruling the utility cannot recoup its past costs for coal-ash cleanup efforts.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Mark Dickinson v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
21A-CR-1615
Criminal. Affirms Mark Dickinson’s convictions for Level 4 felony criminal confinement, Class A misdemeanor domestic battery, Level 6 felony intimidation and Level 6 felony strangulation. Finds Dickinson’s trial counsel did not render ineffective assistance by failing to object to the prosecutor’s questions.
Indiana Lawyer is now accepting submissions for its 2022 Corporate Counsel Guide, which will be made available exclusively through an online database.
The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday it will not pursue criminal charges against former FBI agents who failed to quickly open an investigation of sports doctor Larry Nassar despite learning in 2015 that he was accused of sexually assaulting female gymnasts.