Justices agree to hear divorce, juvenile commitment cases
The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer to two cases last week, one involving a divorce dispute and another involving a juvenile’s commitment to the Department of Correction.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer to two cases last week, one involving a divorce dispute and another involving a juvenile’s commitment to the Department of Correction.
In a case where both sides seemingly have the same position — that limiting corporate contributions to certain political action committees would be unconstitutional — the Indiana Supreme Court is weighing how to interpret state law.
A woman who pleaded guilty to felony dealing in methamphetamine did not knowingly or voluntarily waive her constitutional right to appeal her 48-year sentence, Indiana Chief Justice Loretta Rush wrote in a dissenting opinion to the high court’s decision to deny transfer to the case.
Judges of the Court of Appeals of Indiana traveled to New York this week to officially receive the Sandra Day O’Connor Award for the Advancement of Civics. The award was presented in recognition of the Appeals on Wheels program.
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.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer to three cases for the week ending June 30, including one involving a a pool company that, according to the Court of Appeals of Indiana’s judgment, didn’t properly file a motion to set aside default judgment.
A defendant’s testimony about a prior unrelated felony was irrelevant to his habitual offender trial, a sharply divided Indiana Supreme Court has ruled, upholding the exclusion of that testimony.
Indiana justices granted transfer to two cases for the week ending June 23, including one that involves Duke Energy’s nearly $2 billion economic development plan.
The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed a two-year protective order Monday for a mother and her child, upholding a trial court’s ruling that the child’s father “represents a credible threat to the safety” of the mother or child.
A unanimous Indiana Supreme Court agreed that a trial court erred in not admitting testimony about the character of a man’s daughter in a child molestation case. However, justices also ruled the error was harmless.
A woman whose medical information was sent to the wrong person and then shared on social media is asking the Indiana Supreme Court to do away with the modified impact rule for negligence-based medical privacy breaches.
The Indiana Supreme Court has granted transfer to two cases involving Duke Energy, including one in which the company challenged the city of Noblesville’s jurisdiction to regulate its activities.
The Indiana Supreme Court will not consider two cases involving transgender children whose parents’ petitions to change their gender markers on their birth certificates were denied.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana has been honored with the National Center for State Courts 2023 Sandra Day O’Connor Award for the Advancement of Civics.
Indiana Chief Justice Loretta Rush has penned a dissent to the denial of transfer to a case involving a woman convicted of resisting law enforcement, writing that the case would be an opportunity to clarify what it means to “forcibly” resist law enforcement.
Indiana Supreme Court justices talked about advice they would give to aspiring lawyers, their favorite constitutional amendments and what it was like to transition to the bench during a Q&A on Tuesday with students at the University of Indianapolis.
The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed a trial court’s order amending a damages award but determined the lower court lacked jurisdiction to issue two other orders because each interfered with the subject matter of a pending appeal.
From their seats in the Kathleen and Ann DeLaney Moot Court Room, admitted students look to the front of the room where they see the portraits of four trailblazing alumnae who have made indelible marks on the judiciary.
A northwest Indiana attorney who last year pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography will be suspended from the practice of law for at least two years without automatic reinstatement. Two justices, however, voted in favor of disbarment.
Indiana’s appellate judges came together with special guests on Wednesday to celebrate International Women’s Day at the Indiana Statehouse.