U.S. District Judge John Coughenour repeatedly interrupted a Justice Department lawyer during arguments to ask how he could consider the order constitutional. When the attorney said he’d like a chance to explain it in a full briefing, Coughenour told him the hearing was his chance.
Bruce Mendenhall, 73, already is serving two life terms in Tennessee for a pair of murders and still faces trial for an Alabama murder.
Local attorney Heide Fowler will explain the law, which allows a one-time opportunity for some low-level convictions to be expunged.
For four hours on Wednesday, and with tempers flaring throughout, Indiana lawmakers and plenty of constituents debated whether diversity, equity and inclusion efforts combat or constitute discrimination.
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun on Wednesday waded into a legal fight over the release of abortion records while signing a health-focused tranche of executive orders.
Attorneys in the department’s Civil Rights Division were ordered not to file any new complaints, amicus briefs or other certain court papers “until further notice.”
The parents of four Fort Wayne girls allege that at least three minor male classmates used images and videos from internet sources such as Pornhub to create, edit, and sell video montages and still images of pornographic content with the girls’ names on them.
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun last week signed an executive order replacing “diversity, equity and inclusion,” or DEI, throughout state government policies and programming with “merit, excellence and innovation,” or MEI.
President Trump’s executive order will toss out equity plans developed by federal agencies and terminate any roles or offices dedicated to promoting diversity. It will include eliminating initiatives such as DEI-related training or diversity goals in performance reviews.
Prince Harry claimed a monumental victory Wednesday as Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. tabloids agreed to pay substantial damages to settle his privacy invasion lawsuit.
A proposal from Republican Sen. Gary Byrne of Byrnesville would remove taxing authority from library boards and give it to the county.
An internal memo also says the department will return to the principle of charging defendants with the most serious crime it can prove, removing a prosecutor’s discretion to charge a lower-level offense.
An Indianapolis drug dealer was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison on various drug and gun offenses, including being in possession of a gun used to kill a man in March 2023.
She will oversee the national firm’s diversity, equity, inclusion and access efforts involving both lawyers and business professionals as well as the implementation of strategy, best practices, programs, and learning and development.
The man pleaded guilty in November to two counts of neglect of a dependent resulting in catastrophic injury, both Level 1 felonies, and one count of aggravated battery as a Level 3 felony in the abuse of a three-year-old boy.
Trump’s action paves the way for the release from prison of people found guilty of violent attacks on police, as well as leaders of far-right extremist groups convicted of failed plots to keep the Republican in power after he lost the 2020 presidential election
President Donald Trump repealed dozens of former President Joe Biden’s actions, began his immigration crackdown, withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate accords and sought to keep TikTok open in the U.S.
Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president Monday, returning to power with a promise to end America’s decline and to “completely and totally reverse” the actions of the man who drove him from office four years ago.
The decision Monday by Biden came after now-President Donald Trump had warned of an enemies list filled with those who have crossed him politically or sought to hold him accountable for his attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss and his role in the Capitol siege four years ago.
Through an internal investigation, Amazon discovered that the missing devices were associated with bulk purchase orders that had moved through a Plainfield warehouse, authorities said.