High court traveling to Evansville Monday
The Indiana Supreme Court will travel south Monday to hear oral arguments in Vanderburgh County in a case involving a student’s alleged bomb threat at an Indianapolis school.
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Purdue to host COA argument in courtesy car crash case this week
Purdue University will host a traveling oral argument of the Indiana Court of Appeals this week in a case involving who will pay for damages to a car rented from a car dealership while the driver’s vehicle was being repaired.
Justices to consider resisting law enforcement convictions stemming from fatal crash
A man who killed three people while driving the wrong way down Interstate 69 as he fled from police will make his case to the Indiana Supreme Court this week as to why he should not be convicted of three counts of resisting law enforcement in relation to each of his victims.
Ex-attorney Conour may get new day in court after 7th Circuit argument
Ex-Indianapolis attorney and convicted fraudster William Conour may have yet another day in court, nearly four years after he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing $6 million from three dozen clients and more than 18 months after he was resentenced to the same term.
Justices hear challenge to lethal injection formulation; state says it’s shelved
Several Indiana Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Thursday of a death row inmate’s challenge of the Department of Correction’s untried lethal injection drug cocktail formulation.
US Supreme Court weighs case on detention of immigrants
The Supreme Court of the United States wrestled for a second time Tuesday with whether the government can indefinitely detain certain immigrants it is considering deporting without providing a hearing.
Kennedy is key to Supreme Court outcome on partisan maps
In a case that could reshape American politics, the Supreme Court appeared split Tuesday on whether Wisconsin Republicans gave themselves an unfair advantage when they drew political maps to last a decade.
Indiana Supreme Court to hear death penalty arguments this week
The justices of the Indiana Supreme Court will consider the fate of the state’s death penalty protocol when it hears arguments this week in a case challenging the legality of how the protocol was enacted.
Justices hear Lake Michigan public vs. private rights case
Indiana and public-interest groups took a team approach Thursday to arguing for public access to the shore of Lake Michigan — a claimed public right that private landowners argue never existed in state law.
Indiana Supreme Court to hold argument in Evansville next month
The Indiana Supreme Court will travel to the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville for an oral argument next month, the court announced Wednesday.
Supreme Court to consider 3 cases on petition to transfer next week
The Indiana Supreme Court will decide whether to add three cases to its docket when it hears arguments on petition to transfer next week.
COA considers whether ban on sex offenders attending church violates RFRA
Three Boone County men convicted of serious sex offenses are looking to the Indiana Court of Appeals to determine if they can return to their churches as the court considers whether a ruling that the men cannot attend church when children’s programming is in session violates their rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Supreme Court to resume oral arguments with Goff on the bench
After a two-month summer hiatus, the Indiana Supreme Court will resume hearing arguments next month with its newest member sitting on the bench.
COA to determine jurisdiction of fire departments’ annexation, taxation dispute
The jurisdictional fate of an annexation and taxation dispute involving the Allen County auditor and two Fort Wayne-area fire departments now rests with the Indiana Court of Appeals, which must decide whether the facts of the dispute lend the case to review by the trial court or Tax Court.
Arguments set in Lake Michigan lakeshore rights case
Oral arguments in a case that could establish caselaw on a dispute between public and private claims to the shore of Lake Michigan will be heard Sept. 28.
Justices hear arguments in case seeking bond proceeds
The justices of the Indiana Supreme Court held arguments Thursday in a case where the question is whether a man who was awarded a judgment from a defendant in a civil case will be able to collect the bond proceeds from the defendant’s unrelated criminal case.
Madison park focus of man’s drug conviction appeal before Supreme Court
A man’s felony drug conviction level depends on whether the Indiana Supreme Court believes he sold drugs near a public park where children were “reasonably expected” to be.
Arguments Thursday in drug case near park with no equipment
The Indiana Supreme Court will hear arguments next week on whether children were reasonably expected to be playing at a park with no playground equipment or trees, the central question that must be answered to determine if a man should be convicted of cooking meth within 500 feet of the park.
Justices question teen’s LWOP sentence at oral arguments
In Indiana, only five juveniles have been sentenced to life without parole. Now, the fate of the fifth juvenile rests with the justices of the Indiana Supreme Court, who must decide whether the teen’s act of shooting and killing another 17-year-old rises to a level of offense that warrants spending the rest of his life behind bars.
Justices to decide if man should face charge for sending teen explicit photo
There are two, possibly conflicting, statutes at play in a case now under consideration by the Indiana Supreme Court in a case involving an explicit photo sent to a teen – one that sets the age of consent for sexual activity at 16 years old, and one that prohibits the dissemination of matter “harmful to minors” to any minor under the age of 18.