It’s taken a little longer than expected for the Biden Administration to announce a nominee for the Indiana Southern District Court’s impending vacancy.
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Of all the current Indiana judicial nominees, Magistrate Judge Joshua Kolar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana is the farthest along on his route to fill a vacancy.
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Lena Pratt Sanders, the Marion Circuit Court magistrate judge, has continued her family’s legal legacy of three generations of Black attorneys in Indianapolis — and has now started the family’s second generation of judges.
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Calm, works well with lawyers and litigants, and without a hint of personal or political agendas on the bench. That’s how colleagues, attorneys and judges describe Matthew Brookman.
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The outcome of the case is expected to impact laws in Indiana and several other states that require pornography websites to verify the age of its users to prevent minors under age 18 from accessing the material.
The lawsuit says the woman was served at least 17 alcoholic drinks from March 27 into the early hours of March 28 at the Caesars Southern Indiana Hotel & Casino in Elizabeth, Indiana, where she died. Casino representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The U. S. District Court in Indianapolis dismissed a lawsuit against Indiana University Health after the health network terminated a doctor’s medical privileges at the IU Health Bloomington Hospital.
The IRS estimated that Juan Santiago’s fraudulent tax preparation activities had caused about $1.3 million in tax harm to the United States Treasury each year.
The two worked as correctional officers at the New Castle Correctional Facility, a privately managed prison within the Indiana Department of Correction.
An Indianapolis man was sentenced to two years in federal prison after admitting to selling 36 firearms as part of a straw purchase firearms scheme.
A federal judge late Friday blocked a law creating a 25-foot buffer zone around law enforcement officers during certain activities.
Authorities say the Westfield man engaged in a scheme by which he made it appear he was teleworking full-time for the Social Security Administration during workdays, when in reality he was earning income working as a home inspector for his personal business.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana is warning residents to beware of a scam in which callers are falsely accusing people of failing to appear in court and trying to extract phony fine payments from them.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Young granted a preliminary injunction sought by the ACLU of Indiana in a lawsuit concerning Autumn Cordellioné’s access to gender-affirming surgery while incarcerated.
The ACLU of Indiana filed a new lawsuit over SEA 202, a law requiring professors to be disciplined for not fostering “a culture of free inquiry, free expression, and intellectual diversity,” citing policies recently enacted at Purdue University and Indiana University.
The last two parents of medically fragile children receiving state payments for attendant care will transition to Structured Family Caregiving with everyone else following a Friday court ruling. But the federal judge presiding over the attendant care lawsuit ruled that FSSA must “arrange” for families to receive in-home skilled nursing services on top of that program.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Indiana University in a challenge to the university’s newly-implemented expressive activity policy.
An Evansville diner owner must pay $390,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to employees after the U.S. Department of Labor discovered his restaurant operated an invalid tip pool and that he retaliated against the employees who cooperated with the investigation.
The U.S. District Court for Southern Indiana granted a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the trustees of Purdue University and Indiana University over a new law requiring trustees to implement policies regarding faculty tenure.
A Plainfield man was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for committing three armed robberies at businesses in the Indianapolis area. In August and September 2019, 65-year-old Larry Gibson robbed three stores on the east side of Indianapolis. On Aug. 24, Gibson stole $320 from an OfficeMax on East Washington Street. On Aug. 28, […]
In an ongoing lawsuit against a new law on higher education curriculum, Indiana’s two top universities released a statement yesterday separating themselves from the Office of the Attorney General’s arguments.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has dismissed a case his office brought against IU Health after a judge’s ruling found the case lacking.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court’s ruling that denied a preliminary injunction for the Indiana Right to Life Victory Fund and a media company against two provisions of Indiana law dealing with campaign finance restrictions.
A bipartisan bill co-authored by Indiana Republican Senator Todd Young has passed unanimously in the U.S. Senate and is now heading to the House of Representatives, as Congress looks to address judicial shortages in federal courts.