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Pence decides to pay off federal unemployment loan

Gov. Mike Pence on Thursday morning announced that the state would use about $250 million from Indiana's surplus to finish paying back the federal government for a loan the state took out to pay unemployment benefits during the recession.

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Has it become impossible to prosecute white collar crime?

For close watchers of the interactions between the Justice Department and the financial industry, the mistrial in the Dewey & LeBoeuf case was about more than just the fact that a handful of jurors were too overwhelmed by the evidence presented to reach a verdict. The mistrial, after four months in court and 22 days of deliberations, hints at a much deeper problem: Perhaps most financial crime has simply reached a level of such complexity that it's beyond the reach of the law.

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Trial courts saw 1.3M new cases in 2014

More than 1.3 million new cases were filed in Indiana trial courts last year, according to the Indiana Judicial Service report released Wednesday. The report details court operations at the county and appellate level for calendar year 2014.

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Advisory council approves recommendations for DOC funds

A recommendation to sprinkle $5 million in new state funding across nearly half of Indiana’s counties has been unanimously approved by the Justice Reinvestment Advisory Council, paving the way to expand treatment and rehabilitation programs to help low-level offenders.

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US prosecutors probing UN have plenty of work, documents show

When U.S. federal prosecutors charged a senior United Nations official on Tuesday, it was the Justice Department’s first foray into the activities of the international organization in a number of years. The prosecutor behind the push says there’s more to investigate – and internal UN documents suggest he has a point.

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People

Read who’s recently joined an Indiana firm, joined a board or honored for their work.

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Trailblazing lawyer Sue Shadley dies

Indianapolis attorney Sue Shadley, who made her mark in environmental law and was a founding partner in what became one of the city’s major firms, died Monday from Lou Gehrig’s disease.

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Indiana Lawyer Digital Newspaper

Indiana Lawyer's powerful online edition is an exact digital replica of the printed edition of Indiana Lawyer. Packed with enhanced digital tools such as comprehensive view, search, save and email, you get everything in the print edition plus the flexibility of digital.

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