An upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision in a case considering the balance between the First Amendment and public employees’ rights has union advocates concerned that longstanding union practices could soon be set aside.
A sampling of recent incidents includes a 12-year-old boy arrested for writing a threat against his classmates at Greenfield Intermediate School; a teenage girl at Austin High School arrested and charged with juvenile delinquency/intimidation for making threats to “harm others”; and a 17-year-old boy arrested and charged with felony intimidation for writing a threat on a bathroom stall at F.J. Reitz High School in Evansville.
A retired Indiana attorney has lost his motion to exclude a defendant’s expert testimony in his copyright infringement case, with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana finding the plaintiff was not prejudice by the defendant’s failure to file an expert report.
The Indiana Court of Appeals has upheld a murder conviction against a man who killed his girlfriend and unborn child, finding the warrantless search of his girlfriend’s apartment did not violate his state or federal constitutional rights.
A woman convicted of neglecting and murdering her boyfriend’s 3-year-old son has lost her appeal before the Indiana Court of Appeals, which found sufficient evidence to support her conviction for the “horrific” crime.
Disgraced Subway pitchman Jared Fogle has once again been denied relief from his 15-year prison sentence after a district court judge denied his motion to take judicial notice of certain facts, including correspondence from a former FBI director and congressional laws regarding communism.
A Michigan man who tried to attack disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar in a courtroom is sending thousands of dollars donated to him to charities that help survivors of sexual assault.
Ten Indiana judges have been allocated additional senior judge service days for 2018, with two judges receiving nearly 50 additional days.
A former executive at a Carmel-based development firm Mainstreet is suing the company, claiming it terminated him without cause in November to save money as it was going through a financial downturn.
The Indiana Court of Appeals has temporarily blocked a man’s release from prison in a brutal 1991 slaying.
Indiana’s process of diverting a portion of civil forfeiture proceeds to law enforcement and away from the Common School Fund is constitutional, a trial court judge ruled Friday.
Missouri is defending a prison sentence for a man who committed robbery and other crimes on a single day when he was 16 and now isn’t eligible for parole until he’s 112 years old.
Amendments to two Indiana Supreme Court rules are restricting public access to attorneys’ personal contact information.
An Indianapolis attorney convicted of operating while intoxicated has been suspended from the practice of law in Indiana for six months without automatic reinstatement.
A Madison County man who alleged the state challenged a potential juror for race-based reasons has lost his appeal, with the Indiana Court of Appeals finding the record of the robbery trial does not support the argument that the juror was released because he was black.
A northern Indiana man convicted of killing his estranged wife’s boyfriend in 2016 and hiding the body in a sewer has been sentenced to 64 years in prison.
The only surviving son of a Huntington County woman is not entitled to his mother’s house because she did not properly amend her trust to gift it to him, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
Two court officials have been appointed by Gov. Eric Holcomb to fill judicial vacancies in Allen and Lawrence counties.
A driver whose vehicle was rear-ended after the driver in front of him suddenly stopped cannot sue the driver who stopped due to a release he signed with the motorist whose car collided with his.
A bill that would have given immunity to guardians ad litem and court appointed child advocates stalled in the Indiana House, but other measures covering foster parents and placing new requirements on the Indiana Department of Child Services all passed through the Statehouse with little or no opposition.