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.
The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor of a planned buyer of a Corydon auto dealership in a dispute that arose after the sale fell through.
A white nationalist arrested for physically harassing a woman protesting at a 2016 Donald Trump rally is accused of attacking his wife and her stepfather in the southern Indiana community of Paoli.
A Blackford County judge has been suspended without pay for six days for barring a county’s clerk from entering the courthouse in Hartford City.
An Indiana couple trying to bring a negligence claim against the lessor of a home with an allegedly-defective handrail can pursue neither a negligence per se argument nor a private-right-of-action argument, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled in a Tuesday opinion discussing the differences between those doctrines.
A central Indiana woman has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for killing her 96-year-old great aunt.
A woman who started a drug recovery home for women in southern Indiana has been sentenced to 30 years in prison on a drug-dealing charge that had languished in court since her 2013 arrest.
While overall federal district courts recorded a decline in combined filings for civil cases and criminal defendants in 2017, the Southern Indiana District bucked the trend and posted a 30 percent increase.
A man convicted on multiple child pornography charges has lost his appeal before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals after the appellate panel found no error warranting reversal of his convictions.
A northern Indiana child molester will not be permitted to argue his case before the Indiana Supreme Court after a majority of justices denied his petition to transfer, though two dissenting justices found omissions in the record that they believe warranting their review of the case.
A southern Indiana man who shot and killed a woman he believed was pulling a gun on him, and who subsequently fled, crashed a vehicle and stole another before leading police on a meth-fueled chase will continue to serve a 57-year sentence for his crimes.
An installer of “slide-out” box units on recreational vehicles who was partially paralyzed after one of the units fell from an RV and onto his back cannot sue under the Indiana Product Liability Act, the Indiana Court of Appeals held Tuesday.
A moratorium on new nursing home licenses passed by the legislature in 2015 that applied to proposals seeking approval prior to the bill’s passage was affirmed Tuesday by the Indiana Court of Appeals.
A dispute between a Howard County father and son who operated a real estate appraisal business was rightly decided by the trial court, which found the son owed his father more than $40,000 in past-due appraisal fees.
A Hamilton County attorney has been suspended for 30 days after pleading guilty to her second drunken driving charge in less than a year, according to court records.
Indiana Attorney Curtis Hill on Friday joined U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the Trump administration’s ongoing legal battle with California over immigration and so-called sanctuary cities and states.
The Indiana Supreme Court will hear the state’s challenge of an Indiana Court of Appeals order to enter a not guilty by reason of insanity judgment for a woman who shot and killed a Southport pastor.
The Indiana Supreme Court on Friday reduced the juvenile delinquency adjudication of a minor who threw a brick through a car window, finding the state failed to prove the act of criminal mischief resulted in damages of $750 or more.
An Indianapolis-area attorney who pleaded guilty to fraud and identity theft was sentenced Friday to more than six years in federal prison.