A district court judge has declined to enter default judgment against the Republic of Cuba on an Indiana woman’s claim against the foreign nation after finding members of the Cuban National Soccer Team were not acting within the scope of their employment for the country when they sexually assaulted her.
A Chicago woman’s decision to celebrate “Go Topless Day” by baring her breasts has cleaved the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals over whether she can now cloak herself in the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech.
A transgender inmate is suing the Indiana Department of Correction and is seeking a preliminary injunction that would require the department to provide hormone therapy to treat gender dysphoria.
The fate of a legal malpractice claim against a northern Indiana law firm is now in the hands of the justices of the Indiana Supreme Court, who must decide whether an underlying slip-and-fall case would have been more favorable to the plaintiff if the firm in question had not failed to file crucial documents.
A Florida businessman says he’ll appeal a judge’s order sought by Purdue University that blocks him from trying to sell Boilermakers Beer.
A grand jury indicted a northwestern Indiana man on five charges stemming from a pipe bomb explosion at a post office, U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II announced Thursday.
A western Indiana woman has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the neglect death of her malnourished 8-month-old daughter, who weighed just 11 pounds when she died.
A federal judge has barred the Marion County Sheriff’s Office from detaining people in Indianapolis based solely on requests by immigration officials.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's longtime neighbor pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he assaulted the Kentucky Republican while he was mowing his lawn at his home in Bowling Green.
A southeastern Indiana prosecutor has charged two people with felony murder in connection with an overdose death in Batesville.
Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle will continue to serve his nearly 15-year prison term for multiple child pornography charges after a district court judge struck down his “sovereign” pro se motion challenging her subject matter jurisdiction as frivolous.
The Indiana Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed an award of attorney fees in a guardianship dispute that involved expert witnesses who testified as to the testamentary capacity of a man diagnosed with dementia.
The American Immigration Council on Wednesday released data on Indiana’s immigrant population and their contributions to the state.
Amy Coney Barrett will be sworn in Friday as the newest judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Notre Dame Law School professor will be the first judge to join the Chicago appellate court since Judge David Hamilton filled the other Indiana seat in November 2009.
Former Indianapolis Colts defensive star and current assistant coach Robert Mathis has been charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, endangering a person.
Florida is scheduled to execute an inmate on Wednesday who was convicted of slashing one man’s throat and fatally shooting another six times in 1991.
Did the suspect ask for a lawyer dog? Or did he call a detective “dog,” while seeking a lawyer? A Louisiana Supreme Court justice appears to side with the canine lawyer interpretation.
The Kentucky county clerk jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples will run for re-election in 2018, facing voters for the first time since her protest against gay marriage launched a national uproar from rural Appalachia.
The Indiana Supreme Court has added more court records to the list of those that must be excluded from public access in an order amending state administrative rules.
A northwestern Indiana man has been convicted of murder in the 2013 bludgeoning and strangulation deaths of his parents.