Portage Manor residents file federal lawsuit to prevent closure of South Bend assisted living facility
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.
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1 week left to submit Diversity in Law nominations
Just one week remains to submit your nominations for Indiana Lawyer’s inaugural Diversity in Law awards program.
Fort Wayne man agrees to plead guilty to killing 2 men, wounding 3rd
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.
Hancock Co. judge admonished for ‘injudicious’ comments made while on legal prescription drugs that ‘affected judgment’
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.”
Law firm to reimburse for not drinking and driving on July 4th holiday
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.
Deep sea mining permits may be coming soon. What are they and what might happen?
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.
Activists spurred by affirmative action ruling sue Harvard over legacy admissions
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.
In 370 days, Supreme Court conservatives dash decades of abortion and affirmative action precedents
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.
Police officer and man are killed as Indiana hospital confrontation leads to gunfire
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.
IN Supreme Court split in excluding unrelated felony testimony at habitual offender trial
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.
7th Circuit vacates, remands disability case where medical records belonging to different claimant may have been used in ALJ decision
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.
Parents’ substance abuse issues necessitate CHINS designation for child, COA affirms
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.
Split IN Supreme Court affirms summary judgment for providers sued in manslaughter-mental health case
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.
City lacked standing to sue Franciscan for closing local hospital, COA rules in reversal
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.
SCOTUS rejects Biden’s plan to wipe away $400 billion in student loans
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.
The Supreme Court rules for a designer who doesn’t want to make wedding websites for gay couples
In a defeat for gay rights, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled Friday that a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples.
Local, state leaders react to IN Supreme Court vacating injunction against near-total abortion ban
The Indiana Supreme Court has vacated the preliminary injunction against the state’s controversial near-total abortion ban, reinstating the law. Lawmakers on both sides of the issue are reacting strongly.
California’s historic work on possible Black reparations moves to the Legislature
Members of California’s Black reparations task force handed off their historic two-year report to state lawmakers Thursday, beginning the next chapter in the long struggle to compensate the descendants of slavery.
Court says Tulsa can’t give a Choctaw man a ticket because the Oklahoma city is on reservation land
Tulsa lacks the jurisdiction to prosecute a Native American man cited by police for speeding because the city is located within the boundaries of an Indian reservation, a federal appeals court ruled.
Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling leaves colleges looking for new ways to promote diversity
The Supreme Court has sent shockwaves through higher education with a landmark decision that struck down affirmative action and left colleges across the nation searching for new ways to promote student diversity.