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As Hoosiers return to the polls for the first time since November 2020, the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights will be available to help any voter who encounters a problem casting a ballot.
Making an about-face, a sharply divided panel of the Court of Appeals of Indiana has affirmed the denial of a mother’s second request to change her transgender child’s birth certificate gender marker. But noting its own conflicting precedent, the COA called on the Indiana Supreme Court to help resolve the issue.
Budding leaves and longer days are an invitation to spend more time outside. For Indianapolis legal professionals, that time can be spent playing on an attorneys’ softball league.
A trial court didn’t abuse its discretion when it admitted evidence of subsequent bad acts committed by a Fort Wayne man who continued to abuse his girlfriend after his arrest, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled.
The Martinsville public school district has been ordered to allow a transgender middle school student to use the school restroom that aligns with his gender identity.
Hundreds of urban areas in the U.S. are becoming rural, but it’s not because people are leaving.
Indiana’s first Election Day after pandemic-related complications comes Tuesday, and a few hotly contested primary races are in the spotlight.
Two newly redrawn Indiana House districts in Indianapolis’ northern suburbs have attracted a total of six Republican candidates looking to advance to November’s general election.
A Gary man was sentenced to 130 years in prison Friday after being convicted in the 2020 killings of two teenage boys found shot to death in a northwest Indiana home.
A judge has sentenced a Fort Wayne man to 150 years in prison for a shooting and fire that left three other men dead.
Finding the error in sentencing affected the “fairness, integrity, and public reputation of the proceedings,” the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a judgment and remanded an Indiana man’s sentence on federal drug charges because the district court failed to properly calculate the incarceration time under the First Step Act.
Despite allowing a Level 6 felony conviction to stand, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has reversed a Level 5 felony intimidation conviction, finding that even though the defendant acknowledged he had threatened to kill his sisters, he did not actually intend to prevent them from calling the police.
A trial court erroneously denied a motion to set aside default judgment against a building company when it considered that motion just one day after it was filed without giving notice to the defendants, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Legacy Builders Indiana, Inc. and as amended Legacy Builders Indiana, LLC, et al. v. Christopher Crocker and Beth Anne Robards-Crocker
21A-CT-2255
Civil tort. Reverses the denial of Legacy Builders Indiana Inc. and Jonathon D. Douglas’ motion to set aside a default judgment in favor of Christopher Crocker and Beth Anne Robards-Crocker. Finds the Clay Circuit Court abused its discretion by holding a hearing without notice to the defendants. Also finds the trial court erred by denying the motion to set aside the default judgment where the trial court lacked personal jurisdiction. Remands for further proceedings.
A pair of protective orders issued against two brothers by a classmate have been reversed after the Court of Appeals of Indiana determined the defendants weren’t given an impartial hearing and were denied due process by the Lawrence Circuit Court.
A northwestern Indiana middle school student faces a charge of possessing a destructive device after two improvised explosive devices were found inside a backpack, authorities said.
A southern Indiana couple faces murder charges after they allegedly failed to regularly feed their infant son and the newborn starved to death.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a discrimination lawsuit filed by a deaf, legally blind woman against a physical therapy business that wouldn’t provide an American Sign Language interpreter for her appointments.
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is appealing his conviction for murder in the killing of George Floyd, arguing that jurors were intimidated by the protests that followed and prejudiced by heavy pretrial publicity.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Maria L. Cole v. Peter G. Cole
21A-MI-2415
Miscellaneous. Reverses the St. Joseph Circuit Court’s determination that Maria Cole’s children, J.M.C. and L.R.C., have their “habitual residency” in the Federal Republic of Germany under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Finds the trial court erred when it determined the children have their habitual residency in Germany and not in the United States.