An Indiana appeals court ruled that a trial court failed to uphold the law by requiring a transgender man seeking to change his name and gender marker on government records to publish notice of his petition in a local newspaper. The court also refused to seal the record and required him to produce medical evidence of “an actual physical change” to his body.
Read moreA sexual misconduct lawsuit that has embroiled Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill in allegations that may result in his suspension was dismissed in federal court on Monday.
Read moreA young woman sued Lawrenceburg, Indiana and its police Officer Nicholas R. Myers in federal court, claiming he sexually assaulted her at the police station, for which he pleaded guilty to battery and official misconduct.
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The Seventh Circuit appeared likely Tuesday to overturn Indiana’s sex offender registration requirement, as it applies to people only required to register because they moved away from the state then moved back.
Read moreThe Lake Ridge and Hammond school districts sued Indiana, claiming its law on “the sale or lease of school property for one dollar ($1.00) or not more than the minimum bid” to charter schools is an unconstitutional taking, in Lake County Court.
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A federal judge in Indiana granted a stay of execution late Thursday to a white supremacist convicted 20 years ago of killing an Arkansas gun dealer and his family, blocking what would have been the first execution carried out by the federal government since 2003.
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An Indiana judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a relative of famed 1930s gangster John Dillinger seeking to dig up his body to confirm it is actually him.
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FBI agents arrested the mayor of Muncie, Indiana, on Monday on a charge of theft of government funds in a corruption probe of his administration that has lasted for nearly four years.
Read moreThe Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily suspended three judges without pay for their roles in an altercation that led to two of them being shot in the parking lot of a White Castle restaurant in May.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit denied the Indiana health commissioner’s request for a rehearing on a statute, which has yet to take effect, that forces minors to inform their parents that they plan to have an abortion.
Read moreRemanding in a split ruling, the Indiana Supreme Court found that Indiana’s seizure of a man’s car that was only peripherally involved in a drug deal may have been a grossly disproportionate fine, in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
Read moreIndiana voters filed a federal lawsuit Thursday seeking the decertification of voting machines they claim are vulnerable to hacking and do not leave a verifiable paper trail, in hopes of replacing the machines ahead of the 2020 election.
Read moreThree Indiana judges face disciplinary charges from the Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications in connection with a fight outside an Indianapolis White Castle restaurant in May that led to two of the judges getting shot.
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Indiana’s attorney general said Friday that 165 sets of fetal remains have been found in the Chicago area inside a car owned by a late Indiana abortion doctor, boosting the total number of abandoned sets of fetal remains discovered at properties linked to him to more than 2,400.
Read moreIndiana residents sued Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in federal court, claiming he is illegally “bypass(ing) the legislative process and act(ing) unilaterally to fundamentally transform Medicaid … threatening irreparable harm to the health and welfare of the poorest and most vulnerable in our country.”
Read moreInvestigators found thousands of abandoned medical records at three shuttered Indiana abortion clinics that were operated by a late doctor who took home more than 2,200 sets of fetal remains, Indiana’s attorney general said Friday.
Read moreAfter the “grisly discovery” of more than 2,000 medically preserved fetal remains at the Illinois home of a late doctor who performed abortions in Indiana, both states are investigating whether crimes were committed, Indiana’s attorney general said Monday.
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