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The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed the actions Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of Southern Indiana on behalf of Patoka Valley AIDS Community Action Group Inc., a Dubois County volunteer group that raises awareness on HIV/AIDS.
Gov. Mike Braun Braun credited the Indiana State Police with disrupting drug trafficking networks operating in and around the state and removing impaired drivers from Hoosier roads.
Baird, 80, represents Indiana’s 4th District, which includes much of Boone, Hendricks and Morgan counties.
State Sen. Michael Young has introduced legislation that could lead to a state takeover of policing and criminal prosecution in downtown Indianapolis.
Republican leaders entered the closed-door session at the Capitol largely supportive of Trump’s decision to forcibly remove Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro from power, but many Democrats emerged with more questions.
Hegseth said the censure was “a necessary process step” to proceedings that could result in a demotion from Kelly’s retired rank of captain and subsequent reduction in retirement pay.
The board and Indiana State Treasurer Daniel Elliott issued a joint statement Monday, calling the lawsuit a “money grab” and saying they were fully committed to defending a fund that has protected Hoosier tax dollars from bank failures for nearly 100 years.
Taft said the combination creates an Am Law 100 firm with 25 offices nationwide and projected revenues exceeding $1 billion.
Delaware Circuit Court Judge Judi Calhoun sentenced De’Merio Strong, 28, to 13 years in prison after his conviction by jury for unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon and intimidation with a deadly weapon.
Attorney General Todd Rokita said the lawsuit, filed last Wednesday in the Lake County Superior Court, is part of his office’s intensifying efforts to lower insulin prices and improve health care affordability.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Randall N. Martin v. Robert A. Goldsmith, et al.
23-2277
Civil. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Hammond Division. Judge Philip Simon. Reverses the district court’s dismissal of Randall Martin’s claims against Tippecanoe County Prosecutors Patrick Harrington and Jason Biss that the prosecutors coerced him into resigning as a lieutenant from the Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Office in violation of Martin’s rights under state law and his procedural due process rights under the 14th Amendment. Finds the prosecutors had absolute and qualified immunity for their filing of Brady/Giglio disclosures in Martin’s criminal cases but also finds that they have not met their burden of showing that absolute immunity applies for their other Brady/Giglio disclosures to the Tippecanoe County Bar Association, the Town of Dayton, or the Town of Flora. Also reverses the district court’s dismissal of Martin’s claims against Sheriff Robert Goldsmith. Remands for further proceedings. Attorneys for appellant: John Kautzman, Elizabeth Bernis, Nicholas Snow. Attorneys for appellees: Douglas Masson, Benjamin Jones, Alexander Carlisle.
A defiant Nicolás Maduro declared himself “the president of my country” as he protested his capture and pleaded not guilty on Monday to the federal drug trafficking charges that the Trump administration used to justify removing him from power in Venezuela.
Adrian Gonzales, one of the first officers to respond to the 2022 attack, is charged with 29 counts of child abandonment or endangerment in a rare prosecution of an officer accused of not doing more to save lives.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Westwood Veterinary Clinic, LLC v. Amber Blackburn
25A-PL-1082
Civil plenary. Affirms the Hamilton Circuit Court’s grant of summary judgment to Amber Blackburn on Westwood Veterinary Clinic’s complaint and Blackburn’s counterclaim. Finds Westwood failed to demonstrate that the trial court abused its discretion by awarding sanctions, failed to demonstrate that the trial court erred by granting Blackburn’s motion for summary judgment and failed to demonstrate that the trial court abused its discretion in awarding Blackburn attorney fees. Attorney for appellant: Heather McClure O’Farrell. Attorney for appellee: Benjamin Fultz.
Proposals for allowing the Hoosier Lottery to sell tickets online and the opening of a Fort Wayne-area casino are in the cards for what could be Indiana’s biggest gambling expansion since sports wagering was legalized in 2019.
On Tuesday, Braun signed an executive order to reconstitute the Indiana Workforce Development Board, which was dissolved earlier this year.
St. Philip Neri Catholic Church said in a press release that the boards’ October vote to prohibit the church from razing Holy Cross, the namesake of its east-side neighborhood, “intruded on St. Philip Neri Catholic Church’s religious exercise and violated its religious autonomy.”
U.S. immigration officials do not plan to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia again as long as a judge’s order banning it stands, according to a Tuesday court filing.
The new system was originally expected to roll out this month, but the release is now set for spring.
From the immigration crackdown that brought hundreds of detainees to Indiana jails to the Indiana Senate’s rejection of mid-cycle redistricting, the state saw plenty of legal news in 2025. See what story our staff picked as the top legal story of the year.
