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Gov. Eric Holcomb has appointed a new judge to the bench in Vermillion Circuit Court. Daniel Reed Young will be replacing Judge Jill Wesch, who resigned in December 2022.
For Judge Matthew P. Brookman, Friday wasn’t his first investiture ceremony with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, but it was an important one.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Angela Santos v. Franciscan Health
22A-EX-2611
Agency action. Reverses the dismissal of Angela Santos’ application for adjustment of claim. Finds the full Worker’s Compensation Board of Indiana erred when it dismissed Santos’ claim. Remands for further proceedings.
Curtis Hill said he would eliminate all state-funded programs that “exist only to pander to identity politics” — including the Indiana Office of Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity — if elected to the state’s highest office in 2024.
Mayor Joe Hogsett’s administration is seeking a stronger approach to force property and business owners to discourage behavior that compromises public safety.
Republican State Rep. Jim Lucas is effectively in timeout after he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors in connection with his May arrest for driving under the influence.
A sea of red dresses and gowns flowed into the Indiana Convention Center on Thursday to see Vice President Kamala Harris deliver the keynote address at the 56th national convention of Delta Sigma Theta.
A judge has set a 2024 trial date for a man charged in the killing of an eastern Indiana police officer who was shot during a traffic stop last year.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Patrick Hinton v. State of Indiana
23A-CR-107
Criminal. Reverses Patrick Hinton’s convictions for Level 6 possession of methamphetamine and Class C possession of paraphernalia in the Cass Superior Court. Finds nothing in the record demonstrates probable cause that an officer had plainly viewed evidence of a crime prior to his entry onto Hinton’s property.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana reversed a man’s drug-related convictions Friday after finding officers violated his Fourth Amendment rights when searching for and seizing evidence from his backyard without a warrant.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Thursday a district court’s ruling to impose a supervised release condition on a convicted rapist that failed to register as a sex offender in Indiana.
Indiana Supreme Court justices granted transfer to three cases for the week ending July 14, including a case involving two restaurants accused of overserving a man who later killed another driver in a vehicle crash.
Today is the final day of the extended window for Diversity in Law 2023 nominations.
Nominations must be submitted online by 11:59 p.m. Email or mail-in nominations will not be considered.
Indiana dentists and hygienists have for a decade paid a $20 compliance fee every other year as part of license renewals. But that changes this year, after a long-simmering dispute between dentists and state regulators boiled over.
The Supreme Court would have to abide by stronger ethics standards under legislation approved on Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, a response to recent revelations about donor-funded trips by justices.
A man has been found dead after a sheriff’s deputy in southwestern Indiana fired his rifle at a tent where officers had heard a gunshot.
Indiana authorities have recovered two complete human DNA profiles from bones and bone fragments found on property once owned by a long-deceased businessman suspected in a string of killings in the 1980s and 1990s.
The Indiana Supreme Court has amended the Rules of Trial Procedure to simplify eligibility for special judge selection in circuit, superior and probate courts.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Bryan Priest v. State of Indiana
22A-MI-2845
Miscellaneous. Affirms judgment by the Hendricks Superior Court finding Bryan Priest guilty of operating a commercial vehicle with an alcohol concentration equivalent of 0.04 but less than 0.08. Finds evidence admitted at Priest’s bench trial did not constitute hearsay and complied with the Indiana Administrative Code.
A database readout that was admitted in lieu of a missing breath-test ticket was not hearsay, nor was it a violation of the Indiana Administrative Code, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled in a decision that drew a word of “caution” from the panel.