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The Indiana Bar Foundation Civic Education Task Force released a series of recommendations Wednesday for improving Hoosier students’ understanding of American democracy. The proposals include revising academic standards, providing more professional development for teachers and strengthening ties to the community.
Indiana Court of Appeals
McGraw Property Solutions, LLC v. Jason Jenkins
20A-PL-00630
Civil plenary. Affirms the Boone Superior Court’s summary judgment in favor of Jason Jenkins against McGraw Property Solutions, concluding that Jenkins timely cancelled a storm repair contract within three days of acceptance.
Democrats and Republicans clashed over COVID-19 protocols on Tuesday as they gathered for a ceremonial start to the 2021 legislative session.
Residents of a Miami County lake community lost their bid to make their case to the Indiana Supreme Court that the county, not property owners, are responsible for fixing six crumbling dams.
The Indiana Court of Appeals has affirmed in an interlocutory appeal a Boone County property owner’s cancelation of an agreement with a contractor, finding that his cancelation was timely under the replacement cure contract.
Indiana Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb and first lady Janet Holcomb are quarantining after several members of his security detail tested positive for COVID-19, his office announced Tuesday.
The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is asking the Supreme Court to put off upcoming arguments about whether Congress should have access to secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana Thomas Kirsch II is scheduled to appear before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday as he begins the confirmation process to fill the vacancy on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals created by the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, Josh Minkler, announced Wednesday that he is resigning and plans to take a job with a private law firm in the Indianapolis area, his office said in a statement.
Representing a client inside a courtroom for the first time in nearly three decades, Rudy Giuliani showed some rust as he tried to make the case that President Donald Trump has been robbed of re-election.
The following Indiana Supreme Court opinion was posted after IL Daily deadline Monday:
K.C.G. v. State of Indiana
20S-JV-263
Juvenile. Vacates K.C.G.’s delinquency adjudication and the modification of his probation based on that adjudication in Marion Superior Court. Remands with instructions to dismiss the State’s petition, finding the juvenile court lacked jurisdiction because the offense of dangerous possession of a firearm can never be committed by an adult.
A Delaware County man sentenced to more than 100 years for a crime he committed as a 17-year-old was granted a new sentence after the Indiana Supreme Court found “two major shifts in the law” provide the opportunity to reconsider sentences that were “manifestly unreasonable.”
An Orange County man will keep his decades-long sentence for felony neglect of a dependent resulting in death after the Indiana Court of Appeals concluded that there was no abuse of discretion in rejecting the man’s plea agreement.
The Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday reduced the 181-year sentence for a man convicted of two murders committed when he was 16, finding his appellate counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to challenge the appropriateness of the teen’s sentence.
Barnes & Thornburg is postponing the celebration of its new office in South Bend as the surge in COVID-19 cases has led to new restrictions in St. Joseph County.
Juvenile courts lack jurisdiction to adjudicate the offense of dangerous possession of a firearm because an adult cannot be charged with that crime, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The decision vacating a delinquency adjudication casts doubt on the state law that bars possession of guns by minors.
The turmoil that Indiana schools have faced from the coronavirus pandemic will be a top concern of state legislators during their upcoming session, the leader of the Indiana House said ahead of lawmakers convening for Organization Day.
The two attorneys representing the first woman scheduled to be put to death by the U.S. government in more than six decades are seeking to delay her execution because they’ve contracted coronavirus visiting their client at a Texas prison.
Police in southeastern Indiana shot and killed a man who fired gunshots at them during a nearly four-hour standoff, state police said.