Ten years ago, the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana opened its doors in Indianapolis to help Hoosier tenants and homeowners keep their anchors. The small agency, which covers an area of 24 counties and 2.5 million people, educates, advocates and enforces the laws and regulations that prohibit housing discrimination.
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Police on Monday identified the two weapons used by Brandon Scott Hole when he shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis late last Thursday.
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COVID may have seemed like the only thing that happened in 2020, but for Indiana’s legal community, the past year brought watershed developments that will be with us for years to come, many of which were touched directly by the pandemic. Here are the Top 10 non-coronavirus Indiana legal news stories as determined by consensus of the Indiana Lawyer editorial staff.
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When Indiana University decided to assemble a committee to reevaluate the naming of buildings and landmarks on the Bloomington campus after the school’s seventh president, David Starr Jordan, who afterward championed eugenics, the institution started by calling the law schools.
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The suit is the latest example of workers scrambling to find recourse as federal agencies abandon their cases in response to Trump’s shake-up of the country’s civil rights enforcement infrastructure.
The Republican-led challenge to the Voting Rights Act, the centerpiece legislation of the civil rights movement, could gut a key provision of the law that prohibits racial discrimination in redistricting.
The EEOC alleges Gamer Logistics fired a 69-year-old driver because the company’s new liability insurance policy did not cover drivers ages 65 or older and denied employment to a 68-year-old driver because of his age.
In a shift upending decades of precedent, the Education Department said Wednesday it now believes it’s unconstitutional to award federal grants using eligibility requirements based on racial or ethnic enrollment levels.
The federal government is accusing the school of racial discrimination in the form of affirmative action.
The justices’ decision affects lawsuits in 20 states and the District of Columbia where, until now, courts had set a higher bar when members of a majority group sue for discrimination under federal law.
A former executive at Newfields has filed a federal lawsuit against the art museum and gardens, alleging he experienced discrimination and retaliation before being terminated earlier this year.
The church can seize money the Proud Boys make through merchandise sales. And the congregation has begun to sell lookalike shirts on its website with lines like “Stay Proud, Stay Black.”
Some return-to-office mandates have given rise to legal challenges, particularly in cases where they may disproportionately impact employees with disabilities or other legally protected characteristics.
The outcome of the case could remove an additional requirement that some courts apply when members of a majority group, including those who are white and heterosexual, sue for discrimination under federal law.
The family claims the woman’s trainer subjected her to gender and racial discrimination that ultimately put her in harm’s way and led to her death.
The Federal Trade Commission sued the largest U.S. distributor of wine and spirits on Thursday, saying it is illegally discriminating against small and independent businesses.
The department’s lawsuit alleges South Bend uses a written examination that discriminates against Black police officer applicants and a physical fitness test that discriminates against women. The city defends its practices as fair and compliant with Indiana law.
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday decried antisemitism hours after an explosive CNN report detailed how one of his allies running for North Carolina governor made a series of racial and sexual comments on a website where he also referred to himself as a “black NAZI.”
A group that touts itself as devoted to the fair treatment of all persons without regard to race or ethnicity has filed a civil rights complaint against Indiana University over what it describes as the university’s offering of “discriminatory” scholarships.
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.
A major change to a bill that would define and ban antisemitism at Indiana’s public education institutions led to a reversal of support and opposition among those who testified on the proposal at the Statehouse on Wednesday.
A former Notre Dame Law student who was involuntarily removed in his first semester will not gain readmission next fall by way of a preliminary injunction.
A judge recommended 30-day suspensions for a father-daughter pair of lawyers in Florida who spoke out after another judge overturned a jury’s $2.7 million ruling in favor of a Black doctor in a racial discrimination case.
Lawmakers in more than a half-dozen U.S. states are pushing laws to define antisemitism, triggering debates about free speech and bringing complicated world politics into statehouses.