Attorney general may fight health-care bill
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller is considering options for legally challenging the federal health-care legislation.
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2 counties join Odyssey CMS
Blackford and Huntington counties’; courts and clerks’; offices are the latest to join the Indiana Supreme Court’s Odyssey case management system.
Lecture to cover sentencing trends
Valparaiso University School of Law's Indiana Supreme Court Lecture will feature a professor who's successfully worked to overturn dozens of capital murder cases and death row sentences involving poor people.
Indiana joins Asian carp lawsuit
The Indiana Attorney General is joining in the legal dispute over Asian carp in Lake Michigan. Attorney General Greg Zoeller filed an amicus brief on Friday in the lawsuit with the United States Supreme Court in Michigan's lawsuit against Illinois and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Justice honored for commitment to diversity
Indiana Supreme Court Justice Frank Sullivan Jr. will be honored with an American Bar Association Section of Litigation's
2010 Diversity Leadership Award next month. The award honors those who have demonstrated a commitment to promoting diversity
in the legal profession.
SCOTUS chief justice to speak at IU-Indy
The chief justice of the United States Supreme Court will deliver the ninth annual James P. White Lecture on Legal Education at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis.
Bankruptcy court seeks comment on rule change
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Indiana is seeking public comment on a proposed local rule change.
4 Indiana nominations sent to Senate
President Barack Obama’s list of 40 nominees included four Indiana nominations.
Rush County courts join Odyssey
The Rush Superior and Circuit Courts and clerk's office have gone online on Odyssey, the Indiana Supreme Court's case management system.
SCOTUS admission applications due Feb. 19
Attorneys who'd like to be admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court have until Feb. 19 to submit their applications to the Indiana State Bar Association.
Indiana joins lawsuit over health-care bill
The Indiana Attorney General announced today that Indiana will join 13 other states in challenging the recently passed federal health-care law.
2 Ind. juvenile facilities rank high in DOJ report
Two Indiana juvenile facilities are cited in a new U.S. Department of Justice report for having high rates of sexual victimization among the young offenders.
Event focuses on international law issues
An event at Notre Dame University Law School will explore the scope and importance of international law and its relationship with national sovereignty.
Committee seeks comment on parenting time
The Judicial Conference of Indiana's Domestic Relations Committee is accepting comments on the state's parenting time guidelines as it reviews them. The committee is encouraging comments from judicial officers, attorneys, parents, professionals who work with children, and members of the public.
Lecture to discuss implicit attitudes in tort law
This year's Monsanto Lecture at Valparaiso University School of Law will focus on a 7th Circuit case on transporting toxic liquid and implicit attitudes with regards to tort law.
Many rule changes effective Jan. 1
The new year has brought several amendments to Indiana Rules of Court that took effect Jan. 1, 2010.
Lawyer, exonoree to speak at law school
An attorney and the wrongly accused man he helped to free from prison will speak at Notre Dame Law School Thursday.
Speakers to debate judicial activism
Speakers from the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society will debate the definition, examples, and relevance of judicial activism at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law next week.
COA to visit high school for arguments Tuesday
The Indiana Court of Appeals travels to an Indianapolis high school Tuesday for arguments in case involving a robbery of a pharmacy.
State of Judiciary to air on PBS
For those who weren't able to catch Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard's State of the Judiciary in person or want to see it again, Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations around the state will air the speech next week.