When Horizon League Commissioner Julie Lach first heard the proposal for a new sports law program intended to prepare students for leadership roles in the sports industry, she not only thought it was fantastic, but also that it was a need.
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A new state law specifies that only members of a faculty governance organization who are employed by a state educational institution can vote on pending matters and it stipulates that these organizations are advisory only.
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| A Bloomington-based immigration attorney said his office has been flooded with calls from international students worried they will have to abandon their studies and leave the country. |
Since the Valparaiso Law School closed five years ago, northwestern Indiana has felt the pinch of a growing lawyer shortage more severely.
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Circuit Court Judge Kara Krothe issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday that grants Stephen Daley and Kellan Wyatt and more than 90 other athletes a fifth year of eligibility.
Among those planning returns were defensive linemen Kellan Wyatt and Stephan Daley, both members of the national champion Indiana roster from last season.
The judges said the professors, who had sued over the potential impact of Indiana’s intellectual diversity law, had not shown they have standing to pursue their claim.
Tim Garl claims the school didn’t do enough to defend him as an employee and admitted to firing him because of his age. He wants his defense costs repaid by IU.
The university says that phrase, used to refer to IU’s Indianapolis campus, is too similar to its own UINDY trademark, according to a federal court complaint.
The judge found that a law giving Gov. Mike Braun full control of Indiana University’s Board of Trustee membership is constitutional, ruling against a would-be candidate who alleged it was unjust special legislation.
Froehle, partner and chair emeritus at Faegre Drinker, has been hired as IU’s vice president and general counsel.
Attorneys for the former adviser of the Indiana Daily Student plan to refile the matter in Monroe County within the next month.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana argued that a last-minute provision to the state budget unconstitutionally singles out IU by removing the ability of alumni to directly elect trustees.
The players say they were subjected to unnecessary rectal exams when they played for the Hoosiers in the late 1990s, but an independent review found the doctor did not act in bad faith.
According to the law school, a family gifted nearly $1.6 million to be split among the 154-member 2026 class.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana dismissed a lawsuit filed by several former Indiana University basketball players against the university.
A federal judge ruled the policy violated the First Amendment and that the school must expunge any disciplinary action it took against those cited during a protest at Dunn Meadow.
Senate Bill 110 would revert the board’s makeup to what it looked like before the 2025 legislative session, with five governor-appointed members, three alumni-elected members and one student representative.
Six former players for the Indiana University Indianapolis men’s basketball team have sued the board of trustees and the school over alleged physical and mental abuse inflicted on them by their former head coach.
Anthony Prather, Indiana University’s vice president and general counsel, said an unexpected legal conundrum emerged in 2024 when the school’s “Cignetti Towels” at a football game ended up having a striking resemblance to the Marlboro logo.
James Rodenbush’s complaint says he was fired after refusing to “censor the students’ work” in the newspaper. But the IU Bloomington chancellor says the school has “never attempted to censor editorial content, period.”
The editors of the Indiana Daily Student received a jarring email Tuesday evening: Indiana University was canceling all scheduled and future print editions of the newspaper, starting right away with the homecoming issue set to hit campus newsstands two days later.
Moore had filed suit in August, challenging the governing body’s five-year rule.
Several faculty and university senates have approved resolutions asking their leaders to sign a NATO-like agreement to pool resources in case President Donald Trump’s administration targets one of its members.