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The global law firm, which has the sixth largest practice in the Indianapolis market, plans to combine with Griffiths & Partners, a leading law firm in the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Pisut and Partners in Thailand.
Under the deal members of the Sackler family would give up ownership of the company in addition to contributing money over 15 years with the biggest payment up front.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, D.C., ruled that Trump’s order to exclude transgender troops from military service likely violates their constitutional rights.
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland ordered the Trump administration to restore email and computer access to all employees of USAID.
The Indiana Supreme Court sided with the Marion Superior Court by agreeing that a college student was entitled to attorney fees after he won a court order for one of three public records requests.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Edgar R. Martinez-Orta v. State of Indiana
24A-CR-1456
Criminal. Affirms Edgar Martinez-Orta’s conviction after a Tippecanoe Superior Court bench trial of operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration equivalent of .15 or more as a Class A misdemeanor and failure to dim headlights as a Class C infraction. Finds the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the blood test results. Also finds the actions of Indiana State Trooper Mitchell McKinney during the traffic stop of Martinez-Orta did not violate the Fourth Amendment, and the state laid a proper foundation for admission of the blood test results. Attorneys for appellant: Bruce Graham, Shay Hughes, Michael Dean, Laura Blaydes. Attorneys for appellee: Attorney General Todd Rokita, Deputy Attorneys General Kathy Bradley, Steven Hosler.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ immediate public response to Trump marks an extraordinary display of conflict between the executive and judiciary branches.
The Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana, which says it lost an estimated $30,000 in federal funding, could soon be represented by a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts.
A financial industry arbitration panel has ordered Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. Inc. to pay $7 million in attorney’s fees to a group of former Stifel advisers in Indianapolis.
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Rep. Gerald Connolly of Virginia are seeking detailed information about the authority of the Department of Government Efficiency Service
Four fellow Republicans challenged Floyd County Councilwoman Denise Konkle’s right to hold the seat in 2023, claiming she forfeited her office by residing in Harrison County for six months.
The attorney is suspended from the practice of law for 180 days beginning on April 25.
A three-judge panel will consider the appeal of Melvin Weaver, who was convicted of reckless homicide in a traffic death in Muncie.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Anthony Xavier Carr v. State of Indiana
24A-CR-1599
Criminal. Affirms a Lake County Superior Court’s jury finding Anthony Carr guilty of Brittany Smith’s murder and Judge Salvador Vasquez imposing an aggregate sentence of 68 years in prison. Finds that the trial court did not err in admitting into evidence the detective’s testimony that Carr was the only suspect and the text messages relating to a recent unrelated altercation between Smith and Carr. Also finds here is adequate evidence that Carr murdered Smith. Attorney for appellant: R. Brian Woodward. Attorneys for appellee: Attorney General Todd Rokita, Deputy Attorney General Catherine Brizzi.
More than 200 residential properties around Indianapolis are connected to at least one of the more than two dozen active lawsuits that investors, lenders and contractors have filed against brothers Jeremy and Joshua Tucker.
The state party’s central committee favored her over Destiny Wells by a vote of 18-14.
The total number of tips approached 600 in 2022, then shot up to nearly 900 in 2023 and crossed 1,000 last year for the first time in at least a decade.
The law is a sweeping wartime authority that allows non-citizens to be deported without being given the opportunity to go before an immigration or federal court judge.
U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg issued an order Saturday temporarily blocking the deportations, but lawyers told him there were already two planes with immigrants in the air
The case could have consequences for free speech and protest rights and threaten Greenpeace’s future.
