A split Seventh Circuit panel ruled that a holiday nativity scene displayed on the grounds of a county courthouse does not violate the Constitution.
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The Seventh Circuit heard arguments Tuesday in Indiana’s appeal of a ruling that found a state law requiring providers to report medical complications associated with abortions is unconstitutional.
Read moreA federal judge ruled that Indianapolis bars and nightclubs cannot sue the city for enforcing a county-wide public health order prohibiting public gatherings in order to prevent the spread of Covid-19. The city cannot be held responsible for an order it did not issue, without evidence that the city worked in conjunction with the county to impose restrictions on nightlife establishments.
Read moreA federal court in Indiana declined to block a public health order that imposes restrictions on bars, nightclubs and restaurants in the state. While the court is “sympathetic to the hardships” the pandemic restrictions have placed on the venue owners, the “potential harm to the public overwhelms the harms” the plaintiffs face.
Read moreA federal court in Indiana temporarily blocked enforcement of the state’s residency and minimum food sales requirements, which require out-of-state limited liability companies operating establishments that serve alcoholic drinks to earn annual gross food sales exceeding $100,000, while not imposing minimum food sales on Indiana companies.
Read moreBlind voters in Indiana claim in a federal lawsuit that they can only vote absentee by appointment with a “traveling board” of election officials to help them fill out their ballots, while non-blind Hoosiers can vote absentee by mail, fax or email.
Read moreA man was properly convicted of dealing a fake drug substance — a felony — for attempting to sell baking soda, which he referred to as “white girl,” to a casino patron, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled, finding that the seized evidence was properly admitted under the Fourth Amendment.
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The Seventh Circuit heard arguments Thursday over whether an Indiana county’s Christmas nativity scene on courthouse grounds violates the Constitution’s ban on state-sanctioned religion.
Read moreA federal court in Indiana denied a county’s request for a stay pending appeal of a ruling that prohibited it from displaying a nativity scene on courthouse grounds.
Read moreNightclubs failed to convince an appeals court in Indiana that a Covid-19-related ordinance in Fort Wayne, which required “semi-nude” employees at sexually-oriented businesses to stay six feet away from all patrons, violated their constitutional rights to free speech.
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States cannot unfairly single out heavy vehicles in their operation of toll roads, a trucking association challenging Indiana’s toll system argued before a Seventh Circuit panel Monday.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit stayed an injunction that had required Indiana to count all absentee ballots received by Nov. 13, finding the state’s law requiring all ballots to be received by noon on Election Day is “rational.” The circuit court added that the Supreme Court “insists the federal judges not change electoral rules close to an election.”
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The Seventh Circuit has rejected a lawsuit that sought to give all Indiana voters the right to cast their ballots by mail in the November general election.
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The Seventh Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that seeks to expand access to absentee voting to all Indiana residents who want to cast their ballots by mail in the November election.
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Indiana election officials cannot reject absentee ballots based upon mismatched signatures without first notifying the voter and giving them a chance to correct any mistakes, a federal judge ruled.
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A federal judge ruled on Thursday that Indiana may not enforce portions of a voting law that would allow the state to remove individuals from the eligible voters list without first trying to contact them.
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The senior watchdog of the State Department, Stephen Akard, quit his post without explanation Wednesday, a development that comes mere weeks after his own predecessor was unceremoniously fired by an openly distrustful President Donald Trump.
Read moreA federal judge in Indiana ruled for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in a suit accusing a zoo of violating the Endangered Species Act by declawing lions and tigers and prematurely taking cubs away from their mother.
Read moreAn Indiana appeals court declined to dismiss malpractice claims against a doctor who allegedly artificially inseminated a woman with his own sperm rather than a medical school resident’s donor sperm.
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