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A Fishers attorney suspended from practicing law in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals for one year has been placed on probation by the Indiana Supreme Court.
Former Indiana Chief Justice Randall Shepard has found himself walking up to more stages recently, posing briefly for a photo with his most recent award before stepping to a microphone, pulling notes from his pocket and starting in on a speech.
The sun was shining upon the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site on June 30 as hundreds of people gathered to watch their loved ones officially become United States citizens.
A group of residents at a South Bend assisted living facility have filed a class-action lawsuit to keep the 116-year-old site open.
Just one week remains to submit your nominations for Indiana Lawyer’s inaugural Diversity in Law awards program.
A Fort Wayne man accused of fatally shooting two young men and wounding a third at a gas station in 2021 has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.
Edwin Joseph Rigaud v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
22A-CR-2545
Criminal. Affirms Edwin Rigaud’s conviction for misdemeanor reckless driving. Finds the evidence presented of Riguad driving past a stationary school bus with an extended stop arm was sufficient to support the conviction. Judge Elizabeth Tavitas concurs in result without opinion.
Hancock Superior Judge Donald Jack “D.J.” Davis has been admonished for “injudicious” comments made during an incident at his son’s home in June 2022, when he said his use of legally prescribed narcotics “affected (his) judgment.”
Indianapolis law firm Eskew Law’s Sober Rides safety campaign will be running on Independence Day to keep local residents from driving after they’ve been drinking.
The International Seabed Authority — the United Nations body that regulates the world’s ocean floor — is preparing to resume negotiations that could open the international seabed for mining, including for materials critical for the green energy transition.
A civil rights group is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost to the mostly white children of alumni.
Overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating affirmative action in higher education had been leading goals of the conservative legal movement. In a span of 370 days, a Supreme Court reshaped by three justices nominated by President Donald Trump made both a reality.
A man suspected of domestic violence fatally shot a police officer at a southern Indiana hospital early Monday before he was killed by other officers, authorities said.
A defendant’s testimony about a prior unrelated felony was irrelevant to his habitual offender trial, a sharply divided Indiana Supreme Court has ruled, upholding the exclusion of that testimony.
Rene Martinez v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security
22-1820
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Fort Wayne Division. Judge Robert Miller.
Civil. Vacates the district court’s denial of Rene Martinez’s application for supplemental security income. Finds the administrative law judge’s decision is not supported by substantial evidence. Remands for further consideration.
An administrative law judge’s decision to deny a man’s disability application may have relied on medical records belonging to someone else, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday in vacating a district court’s judgment and remanding the case.
A special needs toddler had been endangered by his parents’ methamphetamine use and a trial court correctly adjudicated the boy as a child in need of services, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Friday in affirming the court’s judgment.
Guilty pleas have the same preclusive effect as trial verdicts, a split Indiana Supreme Court ruled in affirming a trial court’s decision to enter summary judgment for mental health providers sued by a man who pleaded guilty but mentally ill to voluntary manslaughter.
The city of Hammond lacked standing to bring a case against Franciscan Alliance for planning to close a hospital, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled in reversing a trial court’s preliminary injunction.
A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Biden administration overstepped its authority in trying to cancel or reduce student loans for millions of Americans.
