Mary Wertz, the Brown Circuit Court judge, said her father’s pressure to make a career change influenced her decision to go to law school.
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A trial court’s order for two people to pay expenses related to a discovery dispute wasn’t warranted because the defendants’ underlying motion to compel wasn’t completely successful.
A trial court ruled correctly when it granted the Brown County Board of Commissioners’ motion to dismiss a contractor’s complaint in a case centered around bidding for a hiking trail, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Friday.
A former employee of the Chocolate Moose in Nashville argued the trial court abused its discretion when it denied his motion to withdraw his guilty pleas and ordered him to pay more than $6,000 in restitution. The Court of Appeals of Indiana disagreed.
A property dispute between neighbors will continue in the Brown Circuit Court after the Court of Appeals of Indiana overturned the dismissal of the plaintiffs’ amended complaint.
A father who failed to pay thousands of dollars in child support couldn’t persuade the Court of Appeals of Indiana that his pretrial diversion agreement should not have been admitted against him during his jury trial.
A Tippecanoe County school corporation received a favorable ruling from the Indiana Court of Appeals on Monday in its bid to turn local farmland into a new middle school.
Police fatally shot a central Indiana man after he allegedly fled from officers and fired at them, leading to an hours-long standoff that ended when he was shot as he picked up a rifle.
A woman who was evicted from a rustic Brown County cabin for unpaid rent lost her appeal Friday that argued in part the $1,500 damages award to her former landlord was excessive.
The Indiana Bar Foundation Civic Education Task Force released a series of recommendations Wednesday for improving Hoosier students’ understanding of American democracy. The proposals include revising academic standards, providing more professional development for teachers and strengthening ties to the community.
State officials have closed trails at some of Indiana’s most popular state parks and campgrounds in response to large crowds gathering outdoors disregarding social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Indiana Court of Appeals on Friday affirmed on interlocutory appeal a trial court’s decision that it has the legal authority to address the merits of an Indiana Trial Rule 60(B) claim in a dispute over a dock location between Brown County lakefront property owners.
Déjà vu retained its grip on the winner’s circle after three days of competition at the 2019 Indiana We the People State Finals, which brought nearly 600 middle and high school students to Indianapolis Dec. 8-10.
Richard “Rick” Hofstetter, the lawyer-turned-businessman who operated the popular Story Inn in southern Brown County, died Oct. 1. He was 63.
Two attempted murder convictions entered in a Brown County court will stand after the Indiana Court of Appeals agreed with a trial court that the offender did not provide a “fair and just reason” to withdraw his guilty pleas.
Attorney Rick Hofstetter has devoted the last 20 years of his life to the bucolic Brown County hamlet of Story, restoring and preserving the historic community after buying it at a sheriff's sale. Now he says it's time for the town to become someone else's Story.
A rustic southern Indiana town that was established in 1851 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places is up for sale. Its attorney owner has set an asking price of $3.8 million.
The Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a public reprimand of an Evansville attorney and accepted the resignation of a Brown County attorney who was facing multiple professional misconduct and trust account violations.
The Indiana Supreme Court has certified or re-certified 42 judicial officers as senior judges for the coming year. The high court re-certified 33 senior judges and gave eight trial court judges and one magistrate received initial certification.
Southern Indiana voters rejected one trial court judge and narrowly re-elected another who was challenged by a former colleague who changed parties to run against her. Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Darrell Maurice Auxier, a Democrat, was the lone sitting Indiana trial court judge to lose his bid for re-election, while Clark Circuit Judge Vicki Carmichael retained her bench seat in one of Indiana’s closest countywide trial court races Tuesday.
A man serving an 80-year prison sentence for the 2015 rape and murder of an Indiana University student has pleaded guilty to the rape of an IU law student three years earlier.