Some judges also reported earning outside compensation for everything from working as a stagehand at Pink and Taylor Swift concerts to serving as a board member for the Indianapolis Indians baseball team.
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Currently, 20 different jail management systems are used across the state and that makes it difficult for jailers to communicate with each other and find space to ease overcrowding.
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A so-called “retention question” appears on the Nov. 5 election ballot, asking voters whether they want to keep Chief Justice Loretta Rush and Justices Mark Massa and Derek Molter on the state’s high court.
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Expanded roles for paralegals are among the options being considered by the 23-member Commission on Indiana’s Legal Future, which was appointed by the Indiana Supreme Court.
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Bedford Recycling is challenging the revocation of its zoning permit. County officials yanked the permit after competing national conglomerate Republic Services objected to its issuance.
An Indiana University student injured in 2018 by a falling window demonstrated a genuine issue of material fact in inferring that the university’s negligence, a split Indiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
A divided Indiana Supreme Court denied condemned murderer Benjamin Ritchie’s request to seek post-conviction relief.
Court documents show the will would have falsely made the attorney’s paralegal the personal representative of the paralegal’s son’s estate and disinherited the son’s two daughters.
The appointment follows the death of Noble Circuit Court Judge Michael Kramer on March 28.
One case involves grandparent visitation and the other is a dispute over a settlement following a motor vehicle accident.
The Indiana Supreme Court is accepting comments for two rule changes that would normalize remote hearings throughout the state and allow personal electronic devices in all courthouses.
The Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications has accused a former Franklin County judge of participating in improper communications with a defendant outside the presence of the attorneys.
Braven Harris is appealing his sentence in the June 2022 shooting death of 23-year-old Payton Wilson on the near east side of Indianapolis.
Seven justices joined the opinion, authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, upholding the regulations. Two justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissented.
Judge Richard Poynter came up with a plan to eliminate a position and split the position’s salary among other workers to provide them a raise. But the county council didn’t go along.
The cases stem from situations in which one delivery driver was killed and another was injured after they exited their trucks while trying to figure out how to navigate and enter Amazon’s fulfillment center in Mt. Comfort.
The Indiana Supreme Court sided with the Marion Superior Court by agreeing that a college student was entitled to attorney fees after he won a court order for one of three public records requests.
The ruling offers new guidance on what constitutes allowable self-defense under Indiana law.
The Indiana Supreme Court has disciplined an Evansville attorney for misconduct after he allegedly failed to protect the interests of a client he was representing in a property dispute case.
An Indiana man maintains that an agency error cost him a job opportunity, over $1,000 in fines and a night in jail — but state attorneys argued Thursday that the Bureau of Motor Vehicles isn’t responsible for any damages, instead directing him to an administrative review process.
Chelsea Crossland, who was sentenced to life without parole, argues that the Jay Circuit Court abused its discretion by denying her request for a change of venue and her motion to refuse certain jurors.
The case involves a dispute over whether the state’s one-percent cap on homeowner property taxes can be limited to just one acre surrounding a home.
While a majority of the Indiana Supreme Court justices agreed with the punishment, two said they believed Lake Superior Court Judge Calvin Hawkins should be removed from office.
The case is one of several in which the appellate courts have identified a gap that prevents the state from prosecuting some individuals in the transition from juvenile to adult court.