The Hoosier National Forest has been the focus of two lawsuits since 2020 aimed at stopping a controversial federal vegetation management plan that involves the logging and burning of several thousand acres within the forest.
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When Bill Welch first started practicing law, he had no intention of becoming a prosecutor — let alone an attorney working in the child support space.
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Monroe County is installing six cameras at select intersections to take photos of the license plates of every vehicle that travels through. Several Indiana communities have announced they will be installing automatic license plate reading cameras, which has raised debates over public safety and privacy issues.
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It wasn’t quite the retirement he expected. With COVID-19 forcing most of the population to work from home, Court of Appeals Judge John Baker quietly visited the Indiana Statehouse in early June to pack up his chambers. Though he won’t officially retire until July 31, he decided to close out his Indianapolis office early, without the usual pomp and circumstance of a sendoff. “I wanted to work from home,” Baker said with a laugh, “but I didn’t mean for everyone else in the world to have to do it.”
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A federal judge has temporarily halted the U.S. Forest Service’s Houston South Vegetation Management and Restoration Project, ruling that the agency violated federal law again by failing to adequately analyze the project’s potential impact on Lake Monroe.
The case is one of two working their way through the state appellate courts as part of the city of Bloomington’s efforts to annex thousands of acres in what has become a bitter eight-year legal battle with property owners.
After spending nearly 20 years in downtown Bloomington, Indiana Legal Services will soon relocate from its current site due to ongoing developments in the Bloomington Convention Center project.
Oral arguments will be heard June 5 in the Indiana Supreme Court room in the Statehouse.
State lawmakers cut nine judicial posts in four counties and added 8 judicial jobs in four others.
An Indiana University student injured in 2018 by a falling window demonstrated a genuine issue of material fact in inferring that the university’s negligence, a split Indiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
The Monroe Circuit Court denied a motion Wednesday morning for a permanent injunction against Indiana’s near-total ban on abortion.
Despite other cities repeal their “sanctuary city” ordinances following Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s legal actions, Monroe County is continuing to fight the lawsuit.
The Indiana Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s order, with the appellate court finding the Monroe County Board of Zoning Appeals made an error of law by granting a conditional use permit for a scrap-metal recycling facility and was allowed to change that decision.
Earlier this month the Office of the Attorney General filed a lawsuit against the city of East Chicago for for allegedly not complying with federal immigration laws. Yesterday it voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit.
A concertgoer who attended last May’s Snake Pit event during the Indianapolis 500 weekend is suing the Indianapolis Motor Speedway after allegedly being hit in the head by a glass bottle during the festivities.
Monroe County lost its top election official nearly every other month over the past year after a longtime supervisor resigned following a counting error in the November 2022 tally.
A credit union’s “persistent disavowal” of the arguments it raised on rehearing led the Indiana Supreme Court to reaffirm its prior ruling that the credit union cannot compel arbitration in a customer’s class-action.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana has reversed judgment for a real estate developer in a dispute with a Bloomington business, finding that the developer obstructed the business’s easement during a construction project.
A negligence and breach complaint related to a mold-infested building can continue after the Court of Appeals of Indiana reversed the entry of summary judgment.
A landlord’s appeal of a small claims judgment against him was “permeated with procedural bad faith,” the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Monday in affirming the lower court’s decision.
Wading into a dispute over a middle school romance gone wrong, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has reversed a protective order issued against a teen who tried to contact his ex while the two were at school.
The legal fight over Indiana’s new abortion law has reignited in the Monroe Circuit Court, where abortion providers are once again asking for an injunction against the law on Indiana constitutional grounds.
An ongoing assessment of the Monroe County Prosecutor’s Office is giving officials a look at how prosecutorial decisions have impacted racial and ethnic disparities.
The city of Bloomington is still attempting to expand its borders to the displeasure of a significant amount of the Monroe County residents who stand to be annexed.