Governor, attorney general seek execution date for Allen County murderer
Joseph Corcoran was found guilty of the murder of four people in 1997. He exhausted his appeals in 2016 and has been awaiting his execution since.
Joseph Corcoran was found guilty of the murder of four people in 1997. He exhausted his appeals in 2016 and has been awaiting his execution since.
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s new rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
The case has been closely watched by civil rights groups, philanthropic organizations, employment lawyers and the venture capital industry as a bellwether for how the courts are viewing programs intended to level the playing field for groups that have historically faced discrimination in businesses and workplaces.
The special judge in Richard Allen’s murder trial next month has denied three more news organizations from accessing the proceedings with broadcast cameras.
Thursday’s decision marks the fourth time a television station has been denied camera access for the high-profile trial.
Senior Judge Randall Shepard wrote in the opinion for the appellate court that the appellees argue “gender” to mean “gender identity,” while the BMV defines “gender” as synonymous with “sex.”
A Hendricks Superior Court judge has found the Indiana Department of Child Services in civil contempt for failing to search the emails of its current and former directors in a case involving a 4-year-old who was killed.
Indiana Office of Management and Budget senior official Justin McAdam will be the state’s next tax court judge, Gov. Eric Holcomb announced Tuesday.
The ACLU asked the court in September to grant certification of a class that includes all Hoosiers whose religious beliefs “direct them to obtain abortions in situations” prohibited by Senate Enrolled Act 1, the near-total abortion ban.
The fate of the Indiana attorney general’s lawsuit against the social media company TikTok appears to be in danger after a federal judge lambasted much of the case.
Proponents of the bill hope better pay will increase jury turnout and lead to getting more attentive jurors.
With key hearings scheduled in licensing and civil litigation against Indianapolis OB-GYN Dr. Caitlin Bernard this month, the Indiana Attorney General’s Office will be down four attorneys who worked on the case but have now resigned.
According to court documents, the man illegally transferred funds from the union’s bank account to his personal bank accounts on multiple occasions between 2013 and 2019.
Prosecutors say Sen. Eric Koch’s Senate Joint Resolution 1 would keep dangerous people off the streets before trial, while defenders and civil rights advocates say its subjectivity could endanger the rights of those presumed innocent until convicted.
Indiana Chief Justice Loretta Rush’s speech mainly focused on the work by the courts that “makes Indiana an attractive state for economic development and how it can protect public safety in Indiana.”
The U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Doris Pryor to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in a bipartisan 60-31 vote Monday evening, making her the first woman of color from Indiana to sit on the Chicago-based appellate court.
According to the Indiana Supreme Court’s annual report, there were 609 complaints alleging judicial misconduct filed statewide during fiscal year 2021-2022. Of those complaints, 51 cases were not summarily dismissed.
The federal judiciary has agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of users of the nationwide online records system as part of a proposed settlement made public Tuesday in a long-running lawsuit aimed at reducing the cost to access court records.
In bloody, emotional and never-before-seen or heard detail, the events of the early morning hours of May 1, 2019—when Clark County judges Andrew Adams and Bradley Jacobs were shot—are playing out in a Marion County courtroom.
The Indianapolis Fraternal Order of Police said the confidence vote included input from police officers from every law enforcement agency in Indianapolis and Marion County.