The Biden administration will start canceling student loans for some borrowers in February as part of a new repayment plan that’s taking effect nearly six months ahead of schedule.
A federal inmate already serving a life sentence has been sentenced to a second life term after pleading guilty to fatally strangling a fellow inmate and stabbing a second inmate at a federal prison in Indiana.
For some Indiana law firms involved with mergers and acquisitions, 2023 was a slower year.But attorneys like David Barrett, an executive partner in Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP’s Indianapolis office, say they expect things to pick up in 2024.
The Indiana Toll Road’s lease established it as a publicly maintained road for the 2016 and 2017 tax years, the Indiana Tax Court ruled Wednesday in denying three motor carriers’ claims that they should be awarded motor fuel tax refunds for those years.
While a mother cannot relocate to Utah with her child, the trial court erred in awarding primary physical custody of the child to the father, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Thursday, penning a rebuke of the trial judge’s commentary.
A mother who appealed the denial of her requests to relocate to Utah with her child has failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that the trial court erred in its custody determinations.
Indiana lawmakers are fast-tracking a bill they say will ban antisemitism in public educational institutions — although critics of the proposal maintain it limits free speech and conflates anti-Jewish rhetoric with criticism of a foreign government.
Cummins Inc. must complete a recall of 600,000 Ram trucks as part of a settlement with federal and California authorities that also requires the company to remedy environmental damage caused by illegal software that let it skirt diesel emissions tests.
Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial is back in session Thursday for closing arguments after authorities responded to a bomb threat at the home of the judge who moved this week to prevent the former president from delivering his own closing statements.
Alabama will be allowed to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas later this month, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, clearing the way for what would be the nation’s first execution using a new method the inmate’s lawyers criticize as cruel and experimental.
Indiana Chief Justice Loretta Rush recognized some of the state’s judges and their community efforts in trying to assist people with behavioral and mental health needs, as well as efforts by judicial officers to help the state’s veterans and families.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana has filed a lawsuit requesting damages and alleging that a teenager’s constitutional rights were violated.
A Notre Dame University professor’s defamation lawsuit against a student newspaper related to her abortions-rights advocacy was dismissed Monday.
A man’s displeasure with his appointed counsel in a manslaughter case did not require a trial court to replace the public defender the morning of a sentencing hearing, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Wednesday.
Indiana’s judicial nominees to 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana are being formally renominated by the Biden administration after Senate Republicans returned their names to the White House on Dec. 20.
In his eighth and final State of the State address Tuesday, Gov. Eric Holcomb called for commitments to improving third-grade reading levels, expanding the child care workforce and building greater awareness of the state’s jobs programs.
With Donald Trump listening intently in the courtroom, federal appeals court judges in Washington expressed skepticism Tuesday that the former president is immune from prosecution on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
A father-daughter pair of lawyers in Florida may face disciplinary action for speaking out against a judge’s ruling that overturned a jury decision awarding $2.7 million to a Black doctor who alleged he was subjected to racial discrimination.
A woman with intellectual disabilities whose sentence for child molesting was already cut in half failed in her bid to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that she was entitled to post-conviction relief.
The legalization of hemp has led to the reversal of a man’s possession of marijuana conviction at the Court of Appeals of Indiana, which also vacated a meth-possession conviction on double jeopardy grounds.