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House Enrolled Act 1255 (P.L. 185-2021) added new signing methods for wills, effective April 29, with no “sunset” date and no dependence on any current or future public health emergency.
The Indianapolis Bar Foundation is hosting its annual Day of Giving on Oct. 27. Through this online fundraiser, with one donation big or small, you have the opportunity to touch thousands of people — your fellow lawyers, law students, and people in need in and around Indianapolis.
A Huntington County man could not convince the Indiana Court of Appeals that the denial of his request for an exception to build a shooting range on his property was a mistake.
The Biden administration is again urging the courts to step in and suspend a new Texas law that has banned most abortions since early September, as clinics hundreds of miles away remain busy with Texas patients making long journeys to get care.
More than 6,600 Afghan refugees who began arriving at the Indiana National Guard’s Camp Atterbury training post nearly six weeks ago are awaiting resettlement.
Indiana Court of Appeals
John Patrick Michaels v. Huntington County, IN Advisory Board of Zoning Appeals (mem. dec.)
21A-PL-00565
Civil plenary. Affirms the denial of John Michaels’ petition to the Huntington County Advisory Board of Zoning Appeals for a special exception that he be permitted to establish and operate an outdoor shooting range on property not zoned for that use. Finds Michaels failed to properly preserve any Second Amendment argument for review and failed to establish an abuse of discretion.
The American Bar Association has released a set of guidelines attorneys can follow when they don’t speak the same language as their clients.
The Indiana Supreme Court has set schedules to hear several oral arguments next week.
A Muncie police officer who allegedly drove with a blood alcohol content of more than twice the legal limit while on the job is now facing misdemeanor drunken driving charges.
With many Americans who got Pfizer vaccinations already rolling up their sleeves for a booster shot, millions of others who received the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine wait anxiously to learn when it’s their turn.
President Joe Biden has agreed to a request from Congress seeking sensitive information on the actions of his predecessor Donald Trump and his aides during the Jan. 6 insurrection, though the former president claims the information is guarded by executive privilege.
Finding the group to be too inclusive, a federal judge has denied a motion for class certification filed by drivers who claim they were wrongly charged late fees and fines when they crossed the Ohio River toll bridges.
One of Indiana’s Republican U.S. senators has endorsed the nomination of Democratic former Sen. Joe Donnelly as the country’s ambassador to the Vatican.
Police officers fatally shot a man outside a rural southeastern Indiana home after officials said he pointed a gun at them.
Indiana Supreme Court justices reversed Friday in a dispute between two siblings over a provision in their late mother’s trust regarding her son, holding the provision was not an unlawful restraint on marriage.
The following Indiana Supreme Court opinion was posted after IL deadline on Friday:
Roger D. Rotert v. Connie S. Stiles
21S-TR-00452
Trust. Affirms the Jackson Circuit Court’s entry of summary judgment for Connie Stiles and against her brother, Robert Rotert. Finds that because Rotert’s due-process claim fails on the record, he is not entitled to relief. Also finds that because the probate code’s bar against restraints on marriage does not apply to trusts or gifts to children, Marcille Borcherding’s disposition by a revocable trust to her son is valid. Justice Christopher Goff concurs in result with separate opinion.
The Indiana Department of Child Services won a judgment from the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Indiana on Friday following allegations from a man who claimed a caseworker entered his home to take photos without permission, resulting in the removal of his children.
A 20-year-old man has pleaded guilty to charges in a shooting that happened in a northwestern Indiana high school’s parking lot that killed one teenager and injured another.
Freshman Rep. John Jacob spent his first year in the Indiana House of Representatives pushing what he calls “ultra conservative” issues.
Communities across Northwest Indiana are considering humane pet store policies that ban the sale of pets raised at puppy and kitten mills.