The May 2020 Indiana Bar Admission Ceremony was historic in several respects. Aside from taking place during a global pandemic, it was Indiana’s first virtual bar admission and the first where every admittee — all 105 — participated.
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The two worked as correctional officers at the New Castle Correctional Facility, a privately managed prison within the Indiana Department of Correction.
Celebrating for the first time since 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana honored attorneys who have participated in the court’s Pro Bono Program by accepting an appointment in 2023.
Plaintiffs challenging Indiana’s 2023 law banning gender-transition procedures for minors have been granted class certification.
An Indianapolis teacher has filed an appeal to overturn a federal judge’s denial of her motion for a preliminary injunction against a new Indiana law that prohibits instruction on human sexuality in grades K-3.
A federal judge has declined to issue an injunction against a new Indiana law that prohibits instruction on human sexuality in grades K-3.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is asking the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the preliminary injunction entered against a new Indiana law banning gender transition care for minors.
The Department of Justice’s refusal to allow Ascension Medical Group to depose a Drug Enforcement Agency agent and a federal prosecutor in state court was reasonable and in line with federal regulations, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Thursday.
A lawsuit challenging a law banning gender-affirming care for minors is seeking class certification, but a judge has ordered plaintiffs to show cause why briefing on that issue should not be stayed until the court rules on their preliminary injunction motion.
A Marion County man is entitled to resentencing, but his convictions on drug, firearm and money laundering charges will stand, a Southern District of Indiana judge ordered Tuesday.
An inmate at the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Institution has been sentenced to an additional 2½ years in prison for assaulting a federal correctional officer, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana announced Friday.
An Indianapolis dermatologist has been sentenced to three years of probation for underreporting at least $1.2 million in taxable income over a three-year period. David Gerstein, 63, of Hamilton County, has also been ordered to pay $360,669 in restitution.
A former emergency room nurse has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to tampering with consumer products.
A judge has dismissed a former Marion County magistrate judge’s lawsuit against court officials for alleged employment discrimination, ruling neither federal law that former Magistrate Judge Kimberly Mattingly cited permitted her to bring such claims.
An Indianapolis physician has pleaded guilty to understating his taxes by about $361,000 over a four-year period, a felony.
A teaching aide who lost her job after posting misinformation about a school leadership program on Facebook has also lost her bid for summary judgment in her federal lawsuit against the school corporation.
An emergency room nurse at Franciscan Health Crawfordsville hospital repeatedly tampered with vials of pain medications, including morphine and fentanyl, from an automated medication dispensing system for her own use, authorities say.
An Anderson Community Schools bookkeeper has been charged by federal prosecutors with wire fraud and falsifying income tax returns based on allegations that she issued more than 300 checks to herself totaling almost $1 million over a five-year period.
Continuing a national trend, an Indianapolis hotel that suffered significant blows as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic did not prevail before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in its attempts to secure insurance coverage for its pandemic-related losses.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated and remanded a drug dealer’s conviction of conspiracy as well as his sentences after concluding a district court failed to clear up any confusion regarding his guilty plea.
The Bail Project has failed to convince a federal judge to prevent a new law from going into effect tomorrow that will limit whom it can bail out of jail.