Prominent Indiana lobbyist Eric Miller, a self-described “pro-family and pro-church” advocate, announced Tuesday he will close the doors to his conservative political advocacy group by the end of the year.
As Congress faces another pressing deadline to fund the government and the U.S. House grinds to a halt without a speaker, the reauthorization of the nation’s agriculture and hunger programs has taken a back seat.
An amendment to the child abuse reporting statute represents a policy determination that a provider who hasn’t acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct doesn’t retain immunity from a medical malpractice action for causing a report of child abuse.
The appeal involving Indiana’s law banning gender-transition procedures for minors is continuing to attract attention from amici, including from an Oscar-nominated actor.
Rep. Jerry Torr, who has served in the Indiana House of Representatives since 1996, announced Tuesday that he will not run for reelection.
Some judges on the Marion Superior Court want the Marion County Judicial Selection Committee to have a more prominent role in the retention process, but that would likely require a change to legislation passed in 2017.
Indiana’s Public Retirement System (INPRS) says it’s “ahead of schedule” in pulling out of its Chinese investments after lawmakers approved a ban in May.
State defendants in a lawsuit brought by Indianapolis Public Schools regarding the sale of unused classroom buildings are being represented by outside counsel, rather than the Attorney General’s Office. They also refused consent to a commercial court docket.
The idea of age-out requirements has become a bigger topic of discussion recently across all levels of government, including the judiciary.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana and the National Immigration Law Center have filed a lawsuit in federal court that challenges the constitutionality of a new state law, claiming it discriminates based on national origin.
Multiple amici have filed briefs urging the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn an injunction against a new Indiana law that prohibits doctors from performing gender-transition procedures on minors.
After running into another roadblock on its quest to overturn a state law that limits its operations in Indiana, The Bail Project isn’t committing one way or the other on whether it will continue working in the state.
If the last few legislative sessions are any indication of what could be on the horizon for the Indiana General Assembly in 2024, one seemingly safe bet is that the state’s lawmakers will again take up controversial education policy.
A new Indiana law set to take effect in 2024 has some public school librarians feeling uneasy, as the state has put in place procedures for challenging books and will require school libraries to prepare a publicly available catalog of materials.
Republican support for gun restrictions is slipping a year after Congress passed the most comprehensive firearms control legislation in decades with bipartisan support, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Indianapolis Public Schools has filed a complaint against Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita and the state’s education secretary over an updated version of a law that requires districts to offer unused classroom buildings to charter schools for $1.
Tennessee’s Legislature is meeting this week to consider public safety proposals stemming from a deadly shooting at a Nashville elementary school earlier this year. It highlights the widely divergent response among states to a spate of mass shootings.
A split Indiana Supreme Court has denied the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana’s motion for rehearing on the state’s near-total abortion ban.
Indiana lawmakers are returning to the Statehouse this month to begin meeting in their interim study committees, but one group that won’t be gathering is the Interim Study Committee on Courts and the Judiciary.
Harold Buntin spent 13 years in prison for a rape and robbery he didn’t commit. In February — 37 years after his false conviction — the state of Indiana agreed to pay him more than half a million dollars in restitution for his trouble.