No one ever wants to remove a child from their parents’ household.
When there are allegations of abuse or neglect in a home, child welfare officials, caseworkers and judges have to make tough, complicated decisions about what is ultimately best for the child.
Who is responsible when a hospital sends a patient’s diagnosis to the wrong person and that person immediately posts the information on Facebook for hundreds to see?
A former mortgage company employee who sued the company for allegedly falsifying loans in order to get federal insurance endorsement did not meet all of the criteria in the False Claims Act, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
Jurors in federal court have awarded $25.6 million to a former Starbucks regional manager who alleged that she and other white employees were unfairly punished after the high-profile arrests of two Black men at a Philadelphia location in 2018.
Competing motions for summary judgment are seeking to resolve the litigation against Lake County’s merit-based judicial selection process.
An Indianapolis school teacher has teamed up with the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana to challenge a new state law that prohibits instruction on human sexuality in grades K-3.
A lawsuit that seeks to strike down the state’s near-total abortion ban on the basis of Indiana’s controversial religious freedom law was certified Tuesday as a class action by a Marion Superior Court judge.
The two Indianapolis police officers who are facing criminal charges related to the death of Herman Whitfield III have secured a partial stay of the proceedings in a related federal civil case.
Indiana has joined 47 other states and the District of Columbia in suing an Arizona company allegedly responsible for billions of robocalls, Attorney General Todd Rokita’s office announced Wednesday.
Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to pay $13.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed six years ago that alleged the Indianapolis-based drugmaker systematically overpriced its insulin.
A lawsuit filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation is part of a legal strategy to set precedent nationwide “confirming the importance of parental rights and clarifying the need to include a neutral judge in child removal decisions.”
A federal court ruling cleared the way Tuesday for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s settlement of thousands of legal claims over the toll of opioids.
A school counselor who was fired after discussing with a reporter the South Madison School Corporation’s policy of calling students by their preferred pronouns without parental notification has filed a lawsuit for violations of her First Amendment rights.
A judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit the city of Chicago filed against a northwestern Indiana store that alleged it sold hundreds of guns in straw purchases that ended up in the hands of felons or at crime scenes in the city.
A complaint filed by the state against social media giant TikTok has been bounced back to state court after being remanded this week by a federal judge, who criticized the 51-page complaint’s length and “irrelevant posturing.”
Attorneys general across the U.S. joined in a lawsuit Tuesday against a telecommunications company accused of making more than 7.5 billion robocalls to people on the national Do Not Call Registry.
Maybe the most intimidating part of website accessibility is the uncertainty. That’s because there aren’t blanket regulations when it comes to what websites are supposed to do to be considered compliant under the ADA.
Local and state governments that are suing major oil companies want to hold them responsible for the costs of responding to disasters that scientists are increasingly able to attribute to climate disruption and tie back to the fossil fuel industry.
A federal judge in Illinois has tripled the damages in a jury verdict against Eli Lilly and Co., ruling that the drugmaker must pay $183.7 million in a lawsuit filed by a whistleblower who said the company made false claims about federal Medicaid rebates.
A group of Gary residents is asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to make the Indiana Department of Environmental Management revoke a permit for a waste processing facility and conduct an environmental justice analysis of the site.