On Halloween 2019, a constitutional argument against the process for challenging patents not only convinced a federal appellate court but also inspired the judges to offer their own fix to the statute.
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Attorneys for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward and the Indiana Attorney General’s Office are sparring before the state’s highest court over whether Ward’s tentative execution date should stand.
The daughter of a former Indiana Department of Correction inmate failed to prove a doctor’s liability in the inmate’s death from Hepatitis C complications, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday in affirming a district court’s summary judgment order.
Four fellow Republicans challenged Floyd County Councilwoman Denise Konkle’s right to hold the seat in 2023, claiming she forfeited her office by residing in Harrison County for six months.
A split 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a district court’s ruling and determined that a Marion County police officer was entitled to qualified immunity after being accused of impermissibly using deadly force in Broad Ripple.
The U.S. Court of Appeals late Monday denied a request to stay Indiana death row inmate Joseph Corcoran’s execution, which is scheduled to take place before sunrise Wednesday.
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Michael Cohen, who wanted to hold his former boss and ex-president Donald Trump liable for a jailing he said was retaliation for writing a tell-all memoir.
The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed a Hendricks Superior Court’s order that had denied a man’s motion to dismiss two charges of child pornography possession, with the appellant court citing U.S. Supreme Court precedent as part of its decision.
The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decided Tuesday to dismiss the appeal, saying in a two-page ruling that when Murdaugh agreed to plead guilty, he waived his right to appeal except in extraordinary circumstances, and a harsher-than-expected sentence didn’t count.
A five-judge panel in the state’s intermediate appeals court in Manhattan quizzed lawyers representing Trump and the New York attorney general’s office during oral arguments in the Republican presidential nominee’s fight to get the Feb. 16 verdict overturned.
The Republican presidential nominee has given no indication that he plans to attend Thursday’s arguments before a five-judge panel in the state’s mid-level appellate court in Manhattan.
The Indiana Court of Appeals will hold oral arguments for a case involving an Allen County man challenging his murder conviction.
A Marion County judge on Tuesday dismissed a case that sought to overturn a state agency’s decision to exempt terminated pregnancy reports from public record — though an appeal in the case is almost certainly guaranteed.
Legal counsel for an Indiana police officer who was arrested — but later had a drunk driving charge dropped and his record expunged — argued before the state supreme court on Thursday that pending disciplinary action related to the incident should not be allowed to move forward.
The Indiana Court of Appeals will hold oral arguments Sept. 12 at Monrovia High School for a case involving a man convicted of murdering his wife.
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.
The Indiana Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s order, with the appellate court finding the Monroe County Board of Zoning Appeals made an error of law by granting a conditional use permit for a scrap-metal recycling facility and was allowed to change that decision.
Family members of a famous 20th century Pentecostal pastor and evangelist did not have valid ownership claims for copyrights to some of the pastor’s photos, books and films, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in affirming a district court decision.
The owner of WISH-TV failed to show evidence that a pair of television distributors racially discriminated against him in declining to pay retransmission fees to carry WISH and sister station WNDY-TV, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in affirming a lower court’s decision.
There was clear and convincing evidence that a daughter repudiated her father, thus relieving him of his obligation to pay for her college under a marital dissolution decree, the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed Tuesday.
A mother’s right as a custodial parent to choose her child’s religious upbringing, plus a father’s conduct, justiifed a trial court’s order to reduce the father’s parenting time and restrict his child’s involvement at his church, the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed.