The Indiana Supreme Court has proposed an amendment to the state trial rules that would allow court-required public notices to go online on a court created-website. The court is describing the proposal as a possible tool to increase court modernization and efficiency, but one media organization is raising some concerns.
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A former substitute teacher who made multiple false bomb threats, including against a southern Indiana school where she was employed, has been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison.
A nonprofit that purports to help police departments failed to convince the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals that newspaper articles questioning its legitimacy were defamatory, with the appellate court affirming a lower court’s decision.
A Black journalist who called a local school board member a white supremacist then accused leadership at the Anderson newspaper of race and gender discrimination will have one more chance to amend her complaint after a judge dismissed it without prejudice.
A man who claimed local news outlets defamed him with inaccurate details after he was convicted of child molesting couldn’t convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that his lawsuit wasn’t frivolous.
A pro-police organization that was once accused of being a “scam” has lost its defamation claim against two Indianapolis-area news organizations.
Several survivors and relatives of victims of the June 2018 killings at the Capital Gazette newspaper testified in court Tuesday before a judge sentenced the shooter to more than five life terms without the possibility of parole.
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued his estranged niece and The New York Times over a 2018 story about his family’s wealth and tax practices that was partly based on confidential documents she provided to the newspaper’s reporters.
Though most of us might strain ourselves thinking of a reason why one might refuse a pardon or a commutation, multiple individuals have attempted to reject a pardon or commutation, providing both interesting stories and a strange, potential check on the executive.
An Indiana Court of Appeals panel was asked to consider whether a reporter’s use of the word “incompetent” to describe a former Elkhart teacher’s termination was defamatory language – and ultimately whether a newspaper had the right to publish a story using the contested word.
While Oregon voters legalized medical marijuana in 1998 and recreational marijuana for adult use in 2014, the plant is still illegal at the federal level. Any newspaper with pot ads would violate a federal law preventing advertising for illicit goods, the postal service said.