The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed summary judgment in favor of a company and its employee in a defamation suit because qualified
privilege precludes the defamation action.
The nation’s highest court won’t take a case from the Indiana Supreme Court, which decided last year that it did
not violate a man’s Sixth Amendment rights for a lab technician who’d processed DNA evidence to not testify at
trial.
The Indiana Supreme Court denied transfer in four cases June 3. As of today’s Indiana Lawyer daily deadline,
the court had not yet posted transfers since those from the week ending June 4.
State trial judges can consider sentencing scores to help tailor penalties to individual defendants, as long as those results
aren’t used as final aggravating or mitigating factors in deciding a penalty length, the Indiana Supreme Court says
The inquiry by a police officer to a driver stopped for a seat belt violation about the "large, unusual bulge"
in his pants went beyond the state's Seatbelt Enforcement Act, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The Indiana Supreme Court has set the stage for a judicial disciplinary action against a Marion County Traffic Court judge
for his courtroom conduct on a speeding and suspended license case last year.
Two Indiana Supreme Court justices objected to affirming a man’s drug sentence for possession within 1,000 feet of a
“youth program center” because the church that ran the programs wasn’t easily identifiable as regularly
running programs for kids.
After more than a decade on the Indiana Supreme Court, Justice Theodore Boehm is ready to enter the next stage of his life
and career.
At least two attorneys are questioning how some legal publications have included articles, columns, or other types of coverage on pending cases, and they worry that these articles may influence the judges on the cases.
Anyone who wants to be the next Indiana Supreme Court justice has until the end of June to apply for upcoming vacancy on the state’s highest court.
The Indiana Court Improvement Program has announced it will be giving away up to $290,000 in grants to programs that help
families and children involved in cases of neglect or abuse.
Anyone who wants to be the next Indiana Supreme Court justice has until the end of this month to apply.
The Indiana chief justice said in an order that he would “smack down” judicial overreaching or overspending.
the Indiana Supreme Court is considering whether to accept a post-conviction case on an issue some say is an important question
of law relating to wrongful convictions.
Indiana explores what revisions to make to its criminal justice system.
The Indiana Supreme Court considered 13 appeals during the past week, denying them all and rejecting a case that it had previously
agreed to hear.
A trial court's determination to discharge a jury at a defendant's second trial wasn't an abuse of discretion,
the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
The Indiana Supreme Court has decided to not consider a case that justices had granted transfer on late last year, reinstating
a lower appellate court’s ruling that a trial judge had abused her discretion in admitting a blood test in a drunken
driving case.
A Dearborn County commissioner is accusing the county attorney of wrongly accusing two officials of violating federal law
and wants the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission to launch an investigation of its soon-to-be leader who starts
in that office in mid-June.
Upholding a trial court ruling in a case stemming from a construction site accident, the Indiana Supreme Court has offered
guidance for future trials about how juries should calculate a plaintiff’s already-paid compensation benefits when determining
punitive damage awards.