A man who waived his right to appeal his four-year sentence for theft cannot challenge that sentence on direct appeal, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled in dismissing the man’s appeal. Two dissenting judges would hold that the appeal waiver is unenforceable.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer to two cases out of 22 last week, including a medical malpractice case and a juvenile delinquency adjudication voided by the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
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.
The Indiana Supreme Court is prepared to hear three oral arguments next week, all cases the Court of Appeals of Indiana had reversed.
The inspiration for this article comes from disconnected events that range from an offhand and whimsical comment made by a law school professor in 1978 to a highly contested seven-year litigation that the Indiana Supreme Court seems to have finally ended.
It’s been just shy of one year since Dobbs was handed down — 10 months, to be exact — and much has changed in the abortion landscape, both nationally and statewide. Here’s an overview of the current state of abortion across Indiana.
The Indiana Supreme Court clarified Wednesday that their previous ruling in a 2020 juvenile case involving a dangerous possession of a firearm statute did not apply retroactively to a separate juvenile case decided a year earlier.
A Senate Republican plan to switch from in-house attorneys to contractors in two Indiana Department of Child Services regions caught the agency off guard and followed a meeting in which agency executives were “ambushed” by a group of senators.
Indiana Supreme Court justices have granted transfer to a case involving an inmate who alleged medical malpractice at the Department of Correction facility where he was incarcerated.
The Indiana Supreme Court is set to hear two oral arguments next week involving a wind turbine access dispute and a challenge to an adoption proceeding.
A northern Indiana attorney on probation after being conditionally reinstated has again been suspended from the practice of law in Indiana for violating her probation.
Indiana Supreme Court justices have agreed to consider two cases for the week ending April 7.
A northern Indiana attorney who previously served as Portage clerk-treasurer has been publicly reprimanded for not telling a client that he was suspended for misconduct he committed while clerk-treasurer.
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.
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law students hosted a panel discussion Tuesday called “Can We Talk? Women, Life and the Law,” giving students the opportunity to ask questions about abortion-related issues.
Read Indiana appellate court decisions from the most recent reporting period.
Indiana Supreme Court justices heard arguments Tuesday in a case involving a student who filed a class-action lawsuit against Ball State University for COVID-related closures.
The Indiana Supreme Court has removed a nonattorney from the Office of Admissions and Continuing Education’s mediator registry and has permanently barred him from providing or offering to provide legal services unless he obtains an Indiana law license.
The Indiana Supreme Court has expanded the types of records that must be excluded from public access to include electronic communications.
The Indiana Supreme Court has vacated two suspension orders against an Indianapolis attorney after the court’s disciplinary commission learned that a grievance filed against the attorney had been meant for a lawyer with a similar name.