| 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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An independent review of Indiana University’s response to encampment protests at the school’s Bloomington campus determined that while the university was permitted by legal standards and university policies to call off the protests when it did.
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A mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx Ground facility earlier this month that killed eight employees and wounded five raised questions about whether more could have been done under Indiana’s red flag law to prevent the gunman from obtaining additional weapons after he had a firearm removed from his possession just over a year before.
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A newly constituted Indiana University Board of Trustees on Thursday changed the school’s protest policy related to a federal lawsuit after Gov. Mike Braun’s three new appointees were sworn in.
Gov. Mike Braun dismissed the three alumni-elected trustees and appointed vocally conservative alumni, including Sage Steele, a former ESPN host, and attorney Jim Bopp.
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun on Monday announced four appointments to Indiana University’s board of trustees, including conservative attorney Jim Bopp and sportscaster Sage Steele.
In November, the university implemented a new policy that required prior approval for daytime campus protests and banned activities occurring between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.
The lawsuit challenges a new budget provision that gives the governor full control over Indiana University’s board of trustees. Previously, three members of the nine-person board were elected by IU alumni and the governor appointed the others.
The investigation was conducted by international law firm Jones Day, which IU hired to be an independent voice in reviewing player allegations that the exams were sexual in nature.
A letter signed by 26 former chairs of the Board of Managers for IU’s Alumni Association expressed “alarm and anger” over provisions that take away alumni power to elect some IU trustees.
The nine-member board serves as the governing body for the state’s largest postsecondary institution, overseeing major decisions related to policy, finances and leadership appointments.
A fifth former Indiana University men’s basketball player has come forward to accuse former team physician Dr. Bradford Bomba Sr. of unnecessarily performing a rectal examination on him during a routine physical examination.
Speech First, a group of conservative college students, alleged that Indiana University’s bias-response team stifled speech on campus by allowing anonymous reports about things that appear prejudiced or demeaning.
An Indianapolis development partnership has now added Indiana University to a lawsuit that alleges one of the university’s professors and five former students allegedly stole trade secrets and interfered with contracts for a business development project in Puerto Rico.
Republican state leaders, including Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith, joined Purple for Parents of Indiana on Wednesday to call for continued scrutiny to ensure compliance with a 2023 state law barring state dollars from being used by the sex research organization.
A third former Indiana University men’s basketball player has been added to a lawsuit alleging the university did nothing to stop repeated rectal exams the players received from former team physician Dr. Brad Bomba Sr., acts that they say constituted sexual abuse.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in the U.S. Court for the Southern District of Indiana by former players Haris Mujezinovic and Charlie Miller.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Indiana University in a challenge to the university’s newly-implemented expressive activity policy.
The Indiana University Student Outreach Clinic is a law student-run clinic where attorney volunteers, in-person or remote, supervise students and assist when needed. Offerings are held most Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Neighborhood Fellowship Church located at 3125 E 10th St, Indianapolis, IN 46201.
In an ongoing lawsuit against a new law on higher education curriculum, Indiana’s two top universities released a statement yesterday separating themselves from the Office of the Attorney General’s arguments.
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.
Almost three months after police arrested 57 protesters at a pro-Palestine encampment at Indiana University-Bloomington, a new independent review released Thursday found the university’s inconsistent enforcement of its own policies created “confusion and frustration” and made governing the campus difficult.
The ACLU of Indiana filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday on behalf of three individuals who received no-trespass orders after being arrested for protesting the war in Gaza on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington.