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With members of Congress on both sides of the aisle supporting a pair of bills that would give the public free access to federal court filings, federal judges are asserting filing fees would likely increase if PACER is prohibited from charging users.
Indiana Supreme Court
State of Indiana v. Conner Katz
20S-CR-632
Criminal. Reverses on direct appeal the Steuben Circuit Court’s dismissal of Conner Katz’s case after the trial court determined Indiana Code section 35-45-4-8 was unconstitutional on state and federal levels. Justices unanimously disagree with the trial court, concluding the state sufficiently alleged an offense and that the statute is constitutional. Remands for further proceedings consistent with the opinion.
The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climbing and modelers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the wave subsides in mid-March.
An Indiana attorney who was disqualified from representing his ex-wife in her post-dissolution matter from a previous marriage was not prevented from doing so a second time because the basis for his first disqualification no longer existed, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled.
Facing stark criticism from civil rights leaders, senators return to Capitol Hill under intense pressure to change their rules and break a Republican filibuster that has hopelessly stalled voting legislation.
The indictment last week of Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, and 10 other members or associates was stunning in part because federal prosecutors, after a year of investigating the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, charged them with seditious conspiracy, a rarely-used Civil War-era statute reserved for only the most serious of political criminals.
Embattled Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears now has a Republican challenger. Cyndi Carrasco, former deputy general counsel for Gov. Eric Holcomb, announced her campaign Thursday.
The Indiana State Medical Association wants a federal judge to allow it to turn over confidential records to the state licensing board regarding a surgeon suspected of working under the influence of cocaine and alcohol.
Martin Pritikin, dean of the Concord Law School at Purdue Global, has self-published the novel “Scrute,” a fictional tale inspired by his own life.
A man who claimed that several major retailers were liable to him for patent and trade dress infringement has had his complaint against them dismissed by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
President Joe Biden took office at a particularly polarized time in American history, so it’s not surprising that citizens are divided on his performance at the one-year mark.
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana has announced local attorney Jimmie McMillian will be the speaker at its 23rd annual Black History Month event.
The U.S. economy “has never worked fairly for Black Americans — or, really, for any American of color,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a speech delivered Monday, one of many by national leaders acknowledging unmet needs for racial equality on Martin Luther King Day.
The Indiana Senate will not consider contentious Republican-backed legislation that supporters say would have increased parental control over what their kids learn but that teachers and other critics say would have amounted to censorship, a top lawmaker said Friday.
For President Joe Biden, it’s been a year of lofty ambitions grounded by the unrelenting pandemic, a tough hand in Congress, a harrowing end to a foreign war and rising fears for the future of democracy itself. Biden did score a public-works achievement for the ages. But America’s cracks go deeper than pavement.
Marion County jail officials have started transferring inmates to a new $600 million jail and court complex on Indianapolis’ east side.
Purdue University must face a lawsuit brought by two former students alleging violations of their rights after they were disciplined following their reports of alleged incidents of assault.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Sudhakar Kunwar v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
21A-PC-526
Post-conviction. Reverses the denial of Sudhakar Kunwar’s petition for post-conviction relief from his guilty plea of guilty to Level 6 felony sexual battery. Finds his guilty plea was not knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily entered and Kunwar is entitled to a new initial hearing. Remands for further proceedings. Judge Elaine Brown dissents with a separate opinion.