Indiana’s requirements for ballot access by petition are constitutional, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday in upholding a lower court’s ruling and rejecting a legal challenge on behalf of third party political candidates.
Legislation that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law this month bans physical punishment in private schools while reiterating a prohibition on the practice in public schools implemented 30 years ago.
More protests were planned throughout the week, including one Tuesday night outside the Israeli Consulate. However, attendance at the main rally on Monday was far below estimates of organizers who had predicted more than 20,000 would show up.
The 12-year veteran of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department was arrested Monday, the department said in a release.
Judges, colleagues, and loved ones from across the state and beyond gathered in the Indiana Statehouse on Friday to celebrate the career of Court of Appeals Judge Patricia Riley.
A Vanderburgh County judge has sentenced a man to 50 years in prison, the maximum allowable sentence, for two felony child molesting convictions.
The victims’ lawsuit seeks to hold Dimitrios Pagourtzis and his parents, Antonios Pagourtzis and Rose Marie Kosmetatos, financially liable for the shooting at Santa Fe High School on May 18, 2018. They are pursuing at least $1 million in damages.
McKenzie Cochran, 25, was unarmed and repeatedly told guards, “I can’t breathe,” while face down, following a dispute at a jewelry store inside Northland Center in 2014, witnesses said.
Former U.S. Rep. George Santos is due in court Monday afternoon, where a person familiar with the matter has said the New York Republican is expected to plead guilty to multiple counts in his federal fraud case.
Indiana’s Senate Enrolled Act 17 has never gone live, despite an effectiveness date of July 1.
A debt collector working on behalf of a bank did not satisfy the federal face-to-face meeting requirements required for foreclosure on a Lafayette residence, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Friday in affirming a lower court’s judgment in favor of the property’s owner.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita filed a lawsuit last week against the former director of the Evansville parks for allegedly misusing public funds.
Nearly 10 months after the death of Matthew Perry, the long-simmering investigation into the ketamine that killed him came dramatically into public view with the announcement that five people had been charged with having roles in the overdose of the beloved “Friends” star.
A judge issued a warrant Tuesday for the arrest of Richard D. Taft, 39, on one count of murder and two counts of burglary resulting in bodily injury in the killing of 85-year-old Lowell Badger, Indiana State Police said.
The bipartisan commission charged with assuaging the state’s attorney shortage recommended funding legal practice startups and a regulatory “sandbox” agency — among other budgetary and legislative suggestions — in an interim report released Thursday.
Despite other cities repeal their “sanctuary city” ordinances following Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s legal actions, Monroe County is continuing to fight the lawsuit.
The U.S. District Court for Southern Indiana granted a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the trustees of Purdue University and Indiana University over a new law requiring trustees to implement policies regarding faculty tenure.
The Indiana Court of Appeals will head to Depauw University in September, as the court hears oral arguments in a case involving a Marion County juvenile challenging his convictions for firearm and marijuana possession.
Kentucky- and Indiana-based Stoll Keenon Ogden LLC is continuing to expand into the Hoosier state, with the firm announcing a new merger in August with Jeffersonville’s Applegate Fifer Pulliam. Doug Barr, SKO’s managing director, told Indiana Lawyer the acquisition is a natural expansion for the firm, with Jeffersonville being connected to the Louisville market. The […]
One of the people accused of damaging a Ferguson Police Department fence moments before a police officer was critically injured has withdrawn as an uncommitted alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention, the Missouri Democratic Party said Wednesday.