A dispute involving the use of a now-defunct tax appeal form challenging assessments to three Marion County homeowners’ associations common areas over several years was partially reversed by the Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday.
Almost a year after being sworn into the judiciary, a robing ceremony was held for Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Leanna Weissmann.
Indiana Supreme Court justices will hear several oral arguments early next month, including in a murderer’s life-without-parole case, a habitual offender’s double jeopardy dispute and a shoddily constructed South Bend condo complex case.
Marion Circuit Judge Sheryl L. Lynch will temporarily step down from her seat on the bench after informing the court that she is taking a medical leave of absence.
Topics including appointed counsel at initial hearings and juvenile justice issues are on the agenda for this fall’s meetings of the Interim Study Committee on Corrections and Criminal Code.
The Indiana Supreme Court last week appointed a pair of senior judges to serve as judges pro tempore in St. Joseph Superior Court while a panel works to fill open positions on the Superior Court bench.
The Indiana Supreme Court has proposed an amendment to the state trial rules that would allow court-required public notices to go online on a court created-website. The court is describing the proposal as a possible tool to increase court modernization and efficiency, but one media organization is raising some concerns.
The governor’s lawsuit challenging the Legislature’s ability to call itself into session remains in a holding pattern while the Indiana Supreme Court addresses what one legal scholar calls the red herrings thrown into the case by the Indiana Attorney General.
The Indiana Supreme Court has agreed to consider the question of whether the same liability hospitals hold for independent-contractor physicians can be extended to nonhospital facilities.
A northern Indiana attorney and former Portage clerk-treasurer has been placed under an interim suspension after being found guilty of felony conflict of interest.
The longtime leader of Indiana’s judicial ethics body is now officially the executive director of the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission.
An attorney who “politely dared” the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission to question his character has been suspended from the practice of law in Indiana for 30 days with automatic reinstatement.
One Indianapolis lawyer has been suspended from practicing law in Indiana following a criminal conviction while another Indianapolis lawyer has been suspended due to a disability.
Past and present female judges from across the state will gather this month at an Indiana State Bar Association event to reflect on the history and significance of the 19th Amendment.
In the window between the end of the previous moratorium on evictions and the issuance of the current ban, 486 eviction cases were filed in Indiana from Aug. 1 through midday Aug. 4, according to data from the Indiana Supreme Court.
A lawsuit that sought information about the drugs Indiana plans to use in lethal injections and that motivated the Legislature to use a late-night session to keep the veil of secrecy intact has come to a close, with the state paying more than $800,000 in legal fees and disclosing that its supply of lethal injection drugs has long been expired.
The Indiana Supreme Court has denied Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s emergency petition to halt a trial court from continuing proceedings in the governor’s lawsuit against the Legislature.
A judicial vacancy in Northern Indiana has prompted the St. Joseph County Judicial Nominating Commission to start the process of selecting a new superior court judge, the Indiana Supreme Court announced Friday.
Changes have been made to a number of the state’s criminal, trial, small claims and administrative rules, including changes to rules governing the unavailability of judges and filing motions to correct errors.
Two northern Indiana lawyers have been indefinitely suspended from practicing law in Indiana.