Attorneys are using it as a fast-pass ticket to seek a district court order that forces immigration judges to grant detainees a bond hearing or order their release.
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Even as Indianapolis Legal Aid Society has been successful at bringing in more money from grants and private donors in recent years, the nonprofit is still facing an identity crisis with people getting confused about its name as well as the services it provides. The new chair of the nonprofit’s board of directors is launching an effort to clear the confusion and grow the contributions.
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Instead of spending his holiday season surrounded by all things merry and bright, immigration attorney Rudy Monterrosa spent days at what he described as an ominous place akin to a concentration camp. For the second year in a row, Monterrosa took a team to the Texas-Mexico border to offer free legal services to women and children seeking asylum in the United States. His experience this time, however, was quite different.
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After finding the need for civil legal assistance in the United States is widespread across all income levels — and perhaps spread wider than previously thought — The Pew Charitable Trusts sees a need for new solutions to addressing the problems experienced by many individuals and families.
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The Trump administration’s bid to keep a Michigan coal plant running past its planned retirement date was illegal, federal judges ruled. That decision could affect similar cases in Indiana.
The former CEO of the Tindley charter school network will also serve more than a year in prison.
Commission on Court Appointed Attorneys Executive Director Derrick Mason said he’s “sounding the alarm” now to “avoid a crisis in funding that other states have encountered.”
Herb Simon and other equity holders in SFG Co. LLC are suing the company’s managers, which includes members of the late David Simon’s family, for allegedly dissolving the company to benefit his own family.
While Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers had previously detained people with deportation orders at airports, the targeting of people who entered the country legally but now have expired visas is a new development.
The drugmaker, which has been fighting talc-related lawsuits for more than a decade, said that the settlement is conditioned on at least 95% of remaining claimants participating.
Prosecutors had alleged that Robert Sabatini underreported nearly $4 million in sales and failed to pay about $350,000 in taxes from 2020 through 2023.
Buyer was sentenced to 22 months in prison in 2023 for trades made while working as a consultant and lobbyist. The Supreme Court in May rejected Buyer’s appeal without comment or noted dissent.
The competitive eating sensation was accused of slapping a man across the face during a late night out at a Westfield bar.
Hoosiers in rural Indiana say drones are unlawfully tracking deer for poachers, inexplicably flying around chicken coops and increasingly just making people uneasy.
At the center of the standoff that has stretched throughout the week is Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which permits the CIA, National Security Agency, FBI and other agencies to collect and analyze vast amounts of overseas communications without a warrant.
Michael Rapino, who has led the company since it was formed 21 years ago, defended the dominant position Live Nation has taken over the last two decades.
A daunting stream of testimony and evidence has been presented over seven weeks in a New Mexico case that explores what social media conglomerate Meta knew about the effects of its platforms on children.
Scores of claims arising from the crackdown on illegal immigration are winding through a bureaucratic process mandated under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
Advocates say hundreds of adoptees are already seeking investigations, including many from the United States, who were underrepresented in a previous inquiry even though American parents were by far the biggest recipients of Korean children over the past seven decades.
The measure bans camping, sleeping or long-term sheltering on land owned by the state or a unit of local government — and establishes a Class C misdemeanor for violations.
The National Association of Attorneys General said that doxxing and swatting — or reporting false emergencies to trigger an armed response from law enforcement, which happened to several Indiana lawmakers last year — are closely related but different actions.
Nearly a year after a federal judge placed Georgia-based financial firm Drive Planning LLC into receivership, the court-appointed receiver is still wrestling to gain control of the $2 million Geist mansion where the now-defunct firm’s managing partner lives.
Former Indiana Congressional candidate Gabriel “Gabe” Whitley admittedly falsified campaign finance records and lied about raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions ahead of the May 2024 primary.
Judge Christopher E. McGraugh said the original $450 million amount awarded by the jury was “grossly excessive” and not in line with the company’s constitutional rights.