
Hamilton County to expand government center for more courts
Seven more courtrooms will be built in the center as well as a separate elevator to allow the sheriff’s office to move defendants who are in custody.
Seven more courtrooms will be built in the center as well as a separate elevator to allow the sheriff’s office to move defendants who are in custody.
Though not elected by their constituents, magistrates work in tandem with elected judges to handle both civil and criminal proceedings, easing the heavy burden brought on by increasing case filings each year.
Beginning next month — and for the first time in nearly 30 years — nine Indiana counties will enjoy partial state reimbursement for spending on public defenders for destitute Hoosiers accused of misdemeanors.
State lawmakers cut nine judicial posts in four counties and added 8 judicial jobs in four others.
The race for control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court drew $100 million in campaign spending, attack ads and the attention of President Donald Trump and close ally Elon Musk.
The Indiana General Assembly is making its way to the halfway point of the 2025 legislative session, with lawmakers attempting to move proposed bills before Feb. 20.
A bill that would establish a state family recovery court fund is heading to the floor of the Indiana House of Representatives after unanimously passing through committee Monday.
Several courts across central and southern Indiana were closed Monday due to severe weather moving across the area.
Proposals to construct a new building to house the state’s courts have been tossed around for decades – and was even a topic of controversy in the 1980s — but project plans have never developed enough to gain traction.
Jefferson Griffin, a Republican member of the Court of Appeals, is asking the state supreme court to prevent election officials from counting over 60,000 ballots that he argues weren’t lawfully cast.
Corcoran’s public defender, Amy Karozos, maintains that her client “was and continues to be severely mentally ill.” In the early 2000s, when the time was still ripe for Corcoran to initiate post-conviction review, he refused to sign the post-conviction petition, Karozos said.
Some Indiana counties have more than double the judicial officers needed to handle court cases, while others are understaffed, according to the state’s most recent weighted caseload report.
The European Union’s General Court said it was throwing out the 2019 penalty imposed by the European Commission, which is the 27-nation bloc’s top antitrust enforcer.
A Lafayette-based trailer manufacturing company must pay $462 million to the families of two men killed in a 2019 crash involving one of the company’s trailers.
Weeks before Hunter Biden is set to stand trial on federal tax charges, the legal team for President Joe Biden’s son and prosecutors will appear in a California courtroom Wednesday as the judge weighs what evidence can be presented to the jury.
Ashantae Corruthers, 30, appeared at a sentencing hearing Tuesday in federal court, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of Illinois said in a news release.
How you dress in court reflects how you feel, whether you are a party or an attorney.
California officials say the largest trial court in the country is closed after a ransomware attack shut down its computer system late last week.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is scheduled to appear in court in Russia on Thursday for the second hearing in his trial on espionage charges that he, his employer and the U.S. government vehemently deny.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, interpreters and translators are expected to see job growth of about 4% in the next 10 years which is average for all occupations.