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Mark Hurt, an attorney with law offices in Noblesville and Kokomo, has entered the crowded race to fill the 5th Congressional District seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to preserve the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau against a conservative-led challenge.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with a case that people with disabilities worry could make it harder to learn in advance what accommodations are available that meet their needs.
Rebuking Donald Trump, a state court judge imposed a limited gag order Tuesday in the former president’s civil business fraud trial and ordered him to delete a social media post that publicly maligned a key court staffer.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown — a first in U.S. history, forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and throwing the House and its Republican leadership into chaos.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Leeland Paul Runkel v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
23A-CR-99
Criminal. Affirms Leeland Runkel’s convictions of Level 6 possession of methamphetamine, Class A possession of marijuana and Class B possession of paraphernalia. Finds the Blackford Superior Court did not err when it admitted into evidence items found in a pickup truck. Also finds sufficient evidence to support the convictions.
A Butler University student who sued the school after he was found not responsible on an allegation of stalking can proceed with some, but not all, of his breach-of-contract claims.
The Indiana Department of Child Services produced discovery in a civil case that shows the department’s director received emails about a 4-year-old killed by his parents, but the agency and plaintiff disagree about the implications of the messages.
A Pennsylvania attorney suspended in his home state has also been indefinitely suspended from the practice of law in Indiana.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana is headed to South Bend this week as part of its Appeals on Wheels program.
Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to three federal firearms charges filed after his earlier deal imploded, setting the case on a track toward a possible trial in 2024 while his father is campaigning for reelection.
Rep. Jerry Torr, who has served in the Indiana House of Representatives since 1996, announced Tuesday that he will not run for reelection.
U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana threatened Monday to resign from Congress if no debt commission is passed this year.
Two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers indicted for shooting a Black man who was sleeping in a car outside his grandmother’s house entered not guilty pleas Monday.
A day before the federal government executed a Texas man for the killing of an Iowa couple when he was 18, celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz pleaded with then-President Donald Trump — a former client — to call the execution off.
Friday marked a historic moment for the Indiana State Bar Association as the bar inducted its first president who is also concurrently a judge and heard from legal leaders from across the state about updates in the Indiana legal profession.
No presentation about the role of artificial intelligence in the legal community would be complete without at least mentioning the New York attorneys who got in trouble for submitting a court brief that cited nonexistent cases generated by ChatGPT.
In reopening the window for the submission of evidence on whether a student who sued her school over a dispute about an anti-abortion club provided proper notice, a federal judge said she felt “misled” by the parties’ lack of candor.
Indiana’s law schools saw a slight increase in enrollment to begin the 2023-24 school year, and the median grade point average also ticked up for 1L students.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Gustavo Salgado v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
22A-CR-2738
Criminal. Affirms Gustavo Salgado’s conviction in Elkhart Superior Court of Class C misdemeanor operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration equivalent of at least 0.08 grams of alcohol but less than 0.15 grams of alcohol per 210 liters of breath. Finds the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it found Dr. Dana Bors to be an expert on the issue of retrograde extrapolations or when it denied Salgado’s request to present cumulative evidence on surrebuttal. Also finds the state presented sufficient evidence to support Salgado’s conviction.