To wrap up 2022, here’s a look back at the biggest stories of the year, as voted on by IL staff.
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During the cold winter months, lawyers from across central Indiana return to the courts after the sun goes down. While there are plenty of motions, occasional oral arguments and even benches, the procedures during the meetings are far different from their day jobs. For around 13 weeks each year, dozens of attorneys trade in their suits and briefcases for jerseys and sneakers and take to the hardwood — a precedent set more than 40 years ago.
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The two indictments unsealed in New York create a massive cloud for the NBA — which opened its season this week — and show how certain types of wagers are vulnerable to massive fraud in the growing, multibillion-dollar legal sports-betting industry.
The Republican governor’s statements came on the heels of a string of shootings involving youth in the city’s core, including one on July 5 that killed two minors, and just before Indianapolis hosts WNBA All-Star Weekend.
Russia is using online disinformation to spread false information about the 2024 Olympics and portraying Paris as a crime-ridden cesspool. In one example, a fake music video taunts Paris with artificial-intelligence generated images of rats, litter and sewage.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame has agreed to settle a lawsuit related to its decision to cancel a 2016 preseason game between the Indianapolis Colts and Green Bay Packers because of field conditions.
As Charlie Baker takes over as NCAA president, he brings a different way of thinking about one of the most important and polarizing issues in college athletics: regulating how student-athletes monetize their fame.
College students are in the highest risk group for problem gambling, yet universities have been slow to create policies, educational programs or restrictions on sports betting.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana has dropped a lawsuit challenging a 2022 law that bans transgender girls from participating in K-12 girls’ sports after its client transferred to a charter school.
A concussion lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which has included tangles over deposing high-ranking officials and allegations surrounding missing library materials, has been scheduled for a January trial in Marion Superior Court.
Once I entered law school, I began playing slow-pitch softball in the Indianapolis Lawyers League. Over the 30-plus years of involvement, it has been fun and has allowed this old man to keep active, stay young and enjoy fellowship.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the Historical Society of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana will be hosting a panel discussion to take a look at the history of the law, its current application and how the law may be applied in the future.
Efforts supporting a law restricting transgender girls from participating in girls’ K-12 sports continued this week, with Attorney General Todd Rokita opposing proposed Title IX changes and a group of female athletes filing a brief in support of the ban.
Hosted by IndyBar’s Professionalism Committee, the annual softball game brought out some of IndyBar’s best and most athletic members.
To deter others from pursuing similar actions, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has appealed an Indiana Southern District Court injunction allowing a 10-year-old transgender student in Indianapolis to participate on her school’s softball team.
As summer prepared to fade into fall, the teams in the Indianapolis lawyers’ softball league spread across the diamond one last time Thursday evening to play for the championship trophy.
A request by the state for the entire 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to hear a case challenging a new Indiana law that prohibits transgender girls from participating in K-12 girls’ sports has been denied.
The owner of a downtown hotel is asking a Marion County court to enforce a settlement agreement it reached with a developmental football league that has failed to pay a nearly $1 million bill from its stay in Indianapolis last spring.
The owner of Pacers Athletic Center in Westfield is nearing a resolution to a lawsuit filed against its former operations chief and the developer of a planned $42 million sports park in northeast Indiana.
Budding leaves and longer days are an invitation to spend more time outside. For Indianapolis legal professionals, that time can be spent playing on an attorneys’ softball league.
Several Indiana Republicans have lined up against GOP Gov. Eric Holcomb after he vetoed a bill that would have barred transgender females from joining girls’ sports teams.
At the halfway point in this year’s legislative session, Republican leaders in the House and Senate continue to be at odds over the highest-profile issues of the session, including restrictions on employer vaccine mandates and tax cuts for businesses and individuals.