The Indiana Worker’s Compensation Board did not err when it ruled in favor of an injured employee of an Evansville media company, the Indiana Court of Appeals decided Wednesday, as the medical opinion offered by the employee was not contrary to a settlement agreement.
An 8-year-old girl who is alleged to be the victim of sexual abuse will not have to testify in the presence of her alleged abuser after the Indiana Court of Appeals determined the trial court erred in denying motions to allow the victim to testify via closed circuit television.
The Indiana Department of Correction must provide a Muslim inmate at a maximum-security prison in Michigan City with kosher meals that include meat after a district judge determined that the prison’s refusal to serve the man a meat-based diet violates his religious beliefs.
Actor James Woods is asking a court to dismiss an Ohio activist’s defamation lawsuit against him over a comment he retweeted during the presidential campaign season.
A man accused of fatally shooting an Indiana police officer who stopped to help him has been formally arraigned.
A commodities trader who was the first person to be convicted of a kind of illegal trading dubbed spoofing failed to convince the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals that the anti-spoofing statute in the Dodd-Frank Act is unconstitutionally vague.
A black former Whitley County merit officer who raised a racial discrimination claim after he was fired will present his case to a jury after the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals determined Tuesday he had evidence of possible racial discrimination by the Whitley County Sheriff’s Department.
Services have been scheduled Friday and Saturday for U.S. Magistrate Judge Denise LaRue, who died last week after an illness. LaRue, 59, was remembered for her legal skill and compassion.
The Indiana Court of Appeals has affirmed a man’s conviction of operating a vehicle while intoxicated after finding that his failure to request a jury trial for his misdemeanor charge constituted a waiver of his right to a jury.
CVS Health Corp. was sued by a California woman who accused the drugstore operator of charging customers co-payments for certain prescription drugs that exceed the cost of medicines.
A lawyer for a northwestern Indiana sheriff on trial for federal bribery charges told jurors that the FBI tried to buy a crime where one didn’t exist.
Lawyer calls the ruling against Clark County drug court plaintiffs jailed without hearings or legal representation ‘manifestly unjust.’
Lawyers and the public may continue to buy crash report information online after an Indiana judge ruled against plaintiffs who argued information gathered from their driver’s licenses was protected from disclosure by federal law. But that won’t be the last word on the matter.
A central Indiana man whose conviction in his girlfriend’s killing was overturned has been sentenced to 75 years in prison after being convicted again in her slaying.
LaRue, 59, died Aug. 2 after a battle with cancer. The legal community is remembering LaRue as a calm presence in the courtroom, intelligent, even-keeled, genuine and always prepared.
The Indiana judiciary celebrated the student program and focused on its diversity progress.
Court technology and several other court programs got a boost in the latest state biennial budget, including an additional $5.9 million to fund, in part, key initiatives for Hoosiers, such as court appointed special advocate programs.
Since January, attorneys who have decades of experience have been invited into a television studio and asked by another attorney to reminisce about their early days of practicing law in Fort Wayne and the surrounding communities. The conversations are filmed and then posted online.
The parents of an 8-year-old Cincinnati boy who hanged himself blame a “treacherous school environment,” alleging in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that school officials allowed and covered up bullying.
Notre Dame School of Law professor Amy Coney Barrett will appear before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Sept. 6 for the hearing on her nomination to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.