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A man born in Honduras was granted his request for special immigrant juvenile status after the Indiana Court of Appeals concluded a trial court does have the authority and duty to make requisite findings in accordance with federal law.
Brownsburg has lost its final bid to annex nearly 4,500 acres of land after fighting residents who objected all the way to the Indiana Supreme Court. Justices ruled the town “did not satisfy its burden of proving it had met the statutory requirements for annexing the disputed territory.”
The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of a Hoosier trucking company’s amended complaint regarding a clause in a driver’s contract, although it found error with the dismissal’s basis on lack of personal jurisdiction. Justices also said this case will prompt consideration of rules so litigants can move to enforce contractual forum-selection clauses.
In a Portland, Oregon, courtroom packed with environmental activists, federal judges wrestled Tuesday with whether climate change violates the constitutional rights of young people who have sued the U.S. government over the use of fossil fuels.
An Indiana nurse convicted of battering a hospital stroke patient has been sentenced to six months of probation.
A Fort Wayne man convicted of fatally shooting two people while trying to retrieve a luxury purse is appealing his convictions and 170-year sentence.
A woman who police say admitted leaving a racist letter at the home of a family with a biracial son has been sentenced to 180 days of unsupervised probation.
The following opinions were posted after IL deadline Monday.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Common Cause Indiana et al. v. Marion County Election Board
18-2735
Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division. Judge Sarah Evans Barker.
Civil. Vacates the consent decree that expanded the number of in-person early voting sites in Marion County. Finds both sides sought the same relief, a vacatur of the consent decree, after a shift in the county’s voting scheme replaced the precinct-based structure with a voting center plan. Remands to the district court with instructions to dismiss the case.
Officials and community organizations in Goshen are helping to get housing and services for homeless people in a northern Indiana city who formerly lived at a homeless camp that’s being emptied.
A not guilty plea has been entered on behalf of a northeastern Indiana babysitter charged in the death of a young child she was caring for last year.
The White House is again directing former employees not to cooperate with a congressional investigation, this time instructing former aides Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson to defy subpoenas and refuse to provide documents to the House Judiciary Committee.
A federal judge grilled an attorney for the state of Indiana on Monday over whether the Legislature had legitimate reasons for approving a law that would largely ban a second-trimester abortion procedure.
The heated dispute ignited by Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill’s effort to block Marion County’s early voting plan ended with a whimper at the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Monday after both sides acknowledged a change in the voting method nixed the need for a ruling from the federal appellate bench.
Nearly 145 attorneys have been suspended from the practice of law in Indiana, including national and international practitioners, after they failed to either pay annual fees and/or comply with continuing legal education requirements or both.
Hendricks Superior Judge Robert W. Freese has been suspended from judicial office without pay for 45 days after appointing a friend as a trustee of an estate case he was presiding over and failing to take action when the friend did not fulfill his duties, resulting in a “massive theft.”
The Indiana Supreme Court has upheld the removal of a father as the special administrator of his deceased son’s estate, writing that trial courts should hold hearings on special administrator appointments to avoid confusion caused by a “race to the courthouse.”
An accused child molester who was not convicted due to a mistrial has won his argument that incriminating statements he made during a police interrogation were rightfully suppressed during trial because he was not read his Miranda warnings.
Indiana Supreme Court
State of Indiana v. Ernesto Ruiz
19S-CR-336
Criminal. Grants transfer and affirms the grant of Ernesto Ruiz’s motion to suppress statements he made to police before being provided with his Miranda warnings. Finds there is substantial, probative evidence that Ruiz was in custody. Justice Mark Massa concurs in result without separate opinion. Justice Geoffrey Slaughter dissents, believing transfer should be denied, without separate opinion.
A federal judge has granted an abortion provider’s motion for a preliminary injunction to open the doors of a South Bend abortion clinic without a state-required license, prompting an immediate appeal from the state.