Primaries spotlight coming battles over state supreme courts
Voters in 32 states this year will cast ballots on state supreme court seats, which have become a magnet for spending by national interest groups.
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Voters in 32 states this year will cast ballots on state supreme court seats, which have become a magnet for spending by national interest groups.
Justice Clarence Thomas says the Supreme Court has been changed by the shocking leak of a draft opinion earlier this month. The opinion suggests the court is poised to overturn the right to an abortion recognized nearly 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita shares his opinion on how Indiana’s economy can prosper moving forward.
A Marion County Sheriff’s Office detention deputy has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for assaulting an inmate.
The Carroll County judge who claimed insurance companies have broken Indiana’s civil litigation system and begged the parties to appeal his ruling to the Indiana Supreme Court has scrubbed his original order of all but two paragraphs that state summary judgment is granted in favor of the defendants.
A dispute between a dentist and her former employer, which split the Court of Appeals over the award of damages, is now headed for the Indiana Supreme Court.
A Fort Wayne criminal defense and DUI attorney has been placed on probation following a criminal OWI conviction.
The general election isn’t until Nov. 8. But the race for Marion County prosecutor already is well underway, with the Republican challenger boasting a $1 million fundraising goal in her effort to unseat Democratic incumbent Ryan Mears.
Supreme Court justices have long prized confidentiality. It’s one of the reasons the leak of a draft opinion in a major abortion case last week was so shocking. But it’s not just the justices’ work on opinions that they understandably like to keep under wraps.
More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, setting another tragic record in the nation’s escalating overdose epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Wednesday.
Cryptocurrency tycoons are emerging as the new power players in American politics.
Gathered at a ceremony Thursday to honor the 98 people who died in a Florida condominium collapse last summer, some of the victims’ family members said they are too deep in mourning to contemplate the nearly $1 billion settlement their attorneys negotiated on their behalf.
An embattled southern Indiana judge involved in a 2019 brawl-turned-shooting in Indianapolis was arrested Thursday on a felony charge for allegedly hitting her ex-husband in front of their children and has been suspended from the bench.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Fredrick David Craft v. State of Indiana
21A-CR-2004
Criminal. Affirms Fredrick Craft’s convictions of murder and attempted murder. Finds Craft preserved his prosecutorial misconduct claims but declines to grant a new trial because the state’s closing arguments did not place him in grave peril. Also finds the evidence was sufficient to support the verdict.
Despite allegations of prosecutorial misconduct during closing arguments, a man convicted of murder could not convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana to grant him a new trial.
Magistrate Judge Mario Garcia of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, the first judge of Hispanic heritage to serve the Southern Indiana District, will be formally sworn in at 2 p.m. Friday at the Birch Bayh Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Indianapolis.
A disabled former Lake County police officer who claimed that his disability pension plan should provide the same cost-of-living increases that nondisabled retirees receive did not sway the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
A man convicted of murdering his drug dealer more than a decade ago has again been denied habeas relief after the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that the admission of prior testimony from an absent, but key, witness wasn’t done in error.
Federal court documents show the settlement amount reached by an Indiana city and a man who lost an eye after being struck by a tear gas canister police fired during 2020 protests over the killing of George Floyd is $300,000.
A south-central Indiana man has been sentenced to 67 years in prison for the brutal 2020 slaying of his great aunt, who authorities said had bailed him out of jail a day before her death.